Today’s cloudless cyan sky is the perfect backdrop for all the spring colors of the greening trees. I sat in my purple yard chair looking towards the heavens through the leaves of the old water oak in my front yard. The deep blue sky contrasted so prettily with the new chartreuse green leaves of the…

Today was cool and beautifully overcast, the vanilla sky occasionally spitting out raindrops. Oldest brother brought his small chainsaw over here yesterday, cut the old scuppernong vine down and we pulled the arched trellis out into yard. Four years I’ve lived here and the vines haven’t produced any fruit. Read the vines don’t usually produce…

Watching a storm form from my perch in the porch swing, clouds rolling together mixing their watercolored bellies up in purples and dark blues. First clap of thunder and my son insists I come inside. I’m sitting in my reading chair now watching with the wind’s mighty breath bend the bamboo to almost breaking point.…

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…