From my archives… Heard this quote on tv last night and it’s been hanging around in my mind since. “Always do what you can but leave room for a miracle.” Guess that’s God speaking, telling us to never give up on our prayers. We all need to have enough faith to leave room for a…

Today is Valentine’s day so I got my Valentine’s letter from Chief out of my jewelry box and sat down to read it slowly, hearing his words in his Southern drawl. He had told me he had no money to buy me a Valentine gift that year so I jokingly said, “Write me a love…

An overcast sky hung over me this morning pouring out rain from my door to my grandchildren’s door. When I left Roanoke my yard was full of finches and cardinals. Bet the heavy rain stopped the finches’ quarrels. I could’ve studied the colors of the overcast sky and watched for birds but I had to…

Another cool day, a few rain sprinkles sprinkled around. There are so many birds in the yard, I can hear them with the dishwasher going. The fighting finches chose the feeder outside the lady den windows for their fighting arena this afternoon. They were squabbling loudly. I had to turn up the volume on the…

I felt like winter was on the way back this morning. The air was cool and damp, the sky overcast in its cloud cover of vanilla and cigar smoke colored clouds, the cement damp from the early raindrops. The feeders were full of birds, the street’s old oaks full of squirrels. Penelope and I walked…

Could not go to sleep last night, I tossed and turned, the fitted sheet corners popped off. I asked Alexa to play music, to play ocean wave sounds. Thought about getting up. I hate nights like this. Last time I asked Alexa what time it was, it was 5:09 AM. Finally went to sleep and…

Another beautiful porch pondering day. The sky was full of grayish purple clouds traveling quickly across the sky this morning, Mother Nature and Mr. North Wind helping push the clouds along. Soon the sun burst through and the day enjoyed her blue sky canvas and patches of snow white clouds. My little dandelion garden is…

Today was perfect for porch pondering. Just could not stay in the house on such a beautiful day. The sun was hot and raised the temperature to the high 70s. The sky was just glorious, winter blue filled with large fluffy clouds, colored in shades of gray and purple and bleached white where the sun…

Today was awakened with an overcast sky diffusing the warm sun’s rays, illuminating my yard in soft light. The clouds were pressed close, keeping their colors secret, making the vanilla clouds stand in the forefront, soldiers bravely keeping the sun away. My yard was full of cardinals, beautiful birds, the male and female plumage contrasting…

Well, it seems I need to be packing my purple suitcase for Shady Oaks. I was putting up my Wally World pick-up groceries and noticed I didn’t see a canteloupe so I just figured my youngest son had already put it in the refrigerator. This morning I asked him, “You seen my cantaloupe?” He says,…