On this beautifully blue and hot sunshiny spring day, my yard symphony is loud, more noise than music. I’m listening to a weed eater and lawn mower concerto with an occasional raucous train whistle solo thrown in the mix. When that concert played out a glorious quiet settled over the landscape. I could hear the…

Summertime is still with us today with her blue skies and clear warm sunshine. My yard symphony is composed large buzzing bumblebee bassoonists and happy birdsong arias. It’s hot this afternoon. Mother Nature has planned a few cool nights next week and then maybe she’ll get back to her springtIme. I’m ready to start gardening…

As Penelope and I take our first walk under the deep blue sky this morning, songbirds are all over my yard singing songs of praise for the glorious morning, scampering squirrels are stealing sunflower seeds from the feeders, chasing each other around the old oaks. After I cleaned out the bird baths, filled them with…

Sitting on the porch swing and the afternoon is summer personified! The bright yellow sunshine has heated the day up to a real feel 88 degrees. It’s too hot in the sun on this porch swing so I gathered all my bookie and go sit in the other swing. Once the sun hits this swing,…

Today is so beautifully blue and springy green. Father Sky sketched his sky canvas a light blue with hints of aqua and turquoise, cloudless and clear. The sun warms the day till it’s hot on the porch swing and I seek a chair in the shade. There are so many glorious greens in the landscape…

I heard a dying man say this on Gunsmoke. “I have lived under God all my life but I’ve never seen his son.” Been trying to understand this thinking maybe it’s from a verse in Psalm 37:25 that reads, “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,…

Drove back home to Alabama early afternoon. When I left my youngest grandson said, “Patty, you can’t drive home. I can’t even see through your windshield.” My car windshield was spray painted solid yellow with pollen. I told him to step back and I turned on the wipers with the windshield cleaner and I was…

Today is Chief’s 90th birthday. I hope he celebrated in heaven with fried oysters with all the trimmings and a chocolate birthday cake with ice cream. He would love gardening in this glorious spring. We used to kid him about meeting Thomas Jefferson in heaven and the two of them sitting down together and comparing…

Today is my 44th wedding anniversary. We had been married for almost 41 years when Chief died. We used to laugh, talking about celebrating our 50th anniversary. I was 25 and he was 46 when we married. His birthday was the next day, my birthday six days later. He’d be 95 and I’d be 74…

Drove up to visit the grandchildren in Peachtree City this morning. The sky was baby blue and cloudless. The drive was so pretty. I saw a jet, way high in the sky, the sun’s rays striking its silver wings in a flash of light. I was so mesmerized by the plane’s wings that I forgot…