I’ve been lazy today. Still looking at Christmas things that need to be put in the Christmas closets but one of the great things about being retired is the welcome spare moments with no agenda and no work responsibilities except those daily chores for living and maintaining a home. Ralph Waldo Emerson once remarked, “Guard…

Was walking Penelope this morning looking up at the glorious winter blue sky and I remembered a quote by Henry David Thoreau I read yesterday. “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” I am blessed by this beautiful morning and the little flock of crimson cardinals and their mates happily visiting…

When I woke this morning I glanced out the window and saw a beautiful blue sky canvas and a handsome crimson cardinal sitting on a bamboo limb close to the window. You know I’m going to say it was Chief sitting on the limb. Penelope and I’ve spent the day under my cardinal lap blanket…

The day is so beautiful after a storm, the sky is bluer, the clouds are whiter, the sun is brighter. The rain washed the earth clean last night and cleared the sky leaving a sense of peace and thankfulness for God’s grace. Father Sky opened a new box of colorful pastels this morning sketching a…

Father Sky and Old North Wind sketched and blew up a powerful storm today. Heavy rains fell from the dark purple heavens, the wind banged out symphonies of angry loud tintinnabulations on the wind chime pipes. The bamboo got rowdy with their dancing, slapping their trunks together, keeping time with their slender fronds waving in…

Another overcast day, a sky covered in layers of grays and purples, a sun smiling coyly behind her cloud covers, a magnificent rendering of a day’s ending hidden by Father Sky’s cigar smoke clouds. The day was damp and misty bringing on a heavier rain as a mystical twilight covered the horizon. No stars and…

Been porch perching this morning entertained by the squirrels chasing each other in the tall old magnolia across the street, spiraling up the tree like a wind-up train climbing a toy mountain. One of them just fell off a limb, landing in a puff of dirt and leaves. Got right back up and ran back…

The sky was sketched in winter blue today, dotted with white clouds kissed on their bottoms with cigar smoke shades of gray. The sun warmed the damp earth and brought the yard symphony to life, cardinals and chickadees chattering and singing, giving thanks for the beautiful morning as they warmed their wings in the sunshine.…

Father Sky sketched the quiet beauty of a dull gray sky today, thick layers of clouds veiling the blue sky canvas, hiding the sun’s warm yellow sunshine. The day carried a thick mist on its shoulders making the air damp and the sidewalk wet. The sun tried her best but her rays never could burn…

Been looking for a quote today and decided to use the first one in the book of quotes resting near my chair. Turned out the first quote in the book works great for today. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the…