Summer sashayed back in town today, running Mr. Fake Fall away. I was glad to wake up welcomed back to summer, to see the blue sky, the yellow sunshine, the white clouds. I love the imagery in this quote, “The sun is God’s candle,” Matshona Dhliwayo. I can see God carefully carrying an exquisitely designed…

Today was a beautiful summer day, pleasantly cool and cloudy, with a vanilla overcast sky painted with wisps of cigar smoke colored clouds, sometimes gathering in purple shades, light and dark, their bellies filled with rain that never fell from the sky on my yard. The twinkling silver dew on the grass looked like Mother…

Today has been cool and misty. The sky is overcast in melted vanilla and thin cigar smoke cloud layers. I saw one swatch of blue peaking through when I walked Penelope. My neighborhood is surrounded by hymns from the porches’ organ wind chimes. The music is beautiful and haunting, making me sit still and quiet…

Amit Ray writes, “The songs of the morning birds reverberates the glory of the eternal life.” The birds have been singing all morning, joining the raindrops and the wind chimes’ soft notes, their beautiful hymns of thanks reverberating through my neighborhood. I saw a small flock of American goldfinches in the old oak, the males…

I love Maya Angelou, studied her in college at Wesleyan. Been reading some of her quotes today. This is one of my favorite ones. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Words are cheap, sometimes hard to…

Sat outside early afternoon in the swing during a sunshower. The big fat raindrops polka dotted the sidewalk and the red porch tiles. The rain was pouring down and the sky was blue and sunny and full of fluffy white clouds. Cooled things off briefly but afterwards it was hot and steamy on the porch.…

Today is a good day. Nothing on my agenda but porch pondering and bird watching. I love to lay my head down at night knowing tomorrow has nothing scheduled for my day. I am never more content and happy than when I can while away the day on the porch swing. Sat outside and enjoyed…

Another sultry summer day crowned with Father Sky’s beautiful cloud free blue heavens. I spent two hours in the dentist chair this morning getting a permanent crown on one side, temporary crown on the other side. There was a tall pink crepe myrtle out the office’s tall window so I watched for birds while the…

Today was hotter than “two mice making love in a wool sock!” Sat out a while in the porch swing watching the songbirds enjoying their morning on the bird feeders. Father Sky did well with his sky canvas, sketching a dark cerulean summer sky, cloudless and clear. Cerulean blue is considered the perfect sky-blue hue,…

Walking Penelope in the morning heat. The sky is azure blue, almost purple where the horizon holds it up. A single thin wispy cotton boll cloud is swimming quickly across the blue heavens. A slight wind is softly playing my wind chime pipes, singing of places it has traveled from. I love the harmony of…