Such a beautiful day. The sky is blue, the sun bright and warm, the clouds white and fluffy. Every thing looks green and fresh from all the rain’s nitrogen. Somehow the day following a storm or tragedy is always beautiful. Perhaps that’s God’s way of giving us hope for tomorrow. Prayers for those who lost…

Sitting here with bad weather coming through. The electricity is flickering so I’m going to choose something from my archives before I’m cut off. The wind has been so glorious today. I sat on the porch swing and watched the trees dance. But now the wind has gotten angry and is bringing thunderstorms and tornadoes…

Another pretty day sprinkled with beautiful bird songs, warm sunshine beaming down from a spring blue sky dotted with rain clouds. Mother Nature, Father Sky, and Old Man Winter are cooking up some heavy storms this weekend. Hope everyone will weather the storms safely. Be weather aware this weekend! I’ve porch pondered today but dictated…

I woke up this morning again to the “Frank, Frank” alarm sounding from the bamboo forest. A little research and I soon found out “Frank” is a squirrel’s sound for danger. We have six neighborhood cats who wander early mornings through the bamboo in the backyard, up the cement steps to the front yard. I…

I’m sitting in the porch swing enjoying my morning breakfast bagel and cantaloupe, watching the beautiful morning as it unfolds. A gentle breeze is blowing the wind chime pipes, pinging a soft song, so quiet I have to sit still and listen for the melody. Woke up this morning hearing a bird in the bamboo…

Today was so pretty, got hot late afternoon. I enjoyed the porch all day, doing nothing but sitting in the swing watching the world go by in my yard, pondering on things I read or thought about. Found some beautiful tiny teeny wildflowers I‘ve never noticed before on my first morning walk with Penelope and…

Heard two sentences today that really caused me to do some deep pondering. The first one I heard on a movie — “Life’s a big stinking mess but that’s the beauty of it.” The second sentence I’m saving for another day. Okay, I agree that life can be a stinking mess. So what clarifies as…

Another wonderful Sunday the Lord has gifted us today, the overcast sky so beautiful in its layers of ashen whites and grays and purples and blues. The layering of the clouds looked like the peaks of a distant mountain range on the western prairies. I love watching the clouds color up and float away, dropping…

Late afternoon I was sitting in the swing, eating a double-decker Moon Pie and drinking a blackberry Dr. Pepper, when I happened to look at the cellophane wrapper and read that one-third of the moon pie is considered a serving. Surely not! Who would eat just a third of a Moon Pie. Didn’t intimate me,…

I’m pondering on the porch swing this afternoon, the sky, so pretty in pale blue, is covered in line clouds where Father Sky has scratched his white pastel back and forth across his sky canvas. The songbirds are singing cheerfully and the wind chimes are adding background music to the songbird’s glorious symphony. The goldfinches,…