Well, we had our family Christmas dinner tonight with delicious food and lots of laughter. The children were so happy and full of Christmas excitement. It’s been another beautiful day. Was too excited myself to gaze at the sunset. I don’t even know what kind of sky canvas Father Sky painted today but I know…

Beautiful day to be alive and spending the day on Mother Earth. The sky is azure blue, clear and cloudless. Mother Nature is blowing a cool breeze, the wind chimes pounding out a winter symphony, the bird feeders full of purple finches and crimson and fawn brown cardinals. The little wren, his chest pumped out…

My friend down the street just walked up to borrow a cup of brown sugar. We borrowed her pliers last year on Christmas Eve. Isn’t that a small town act of kindness. I love it! And I love my friends! Real friends are such gifts from God. If your friend loves you, cries with you,…

Another beautiful day! I think Father Sky was sketching the clouds today just for my cloud watching. The first walk with Penelope, the sky was dark blue and clear, not a cloud in sight. I had to get up earlier than usual to catch the garbage men to give them their Christmas candy. I heard…

Beautiful day…blue sky, white clouds riding low on the horizon, wispy clouds stretching out in the high sky, a few jet contrails mixed in with the clouds. Sat in the swing this morning and ate my bagel and fruit, enjoying the sun’s warmth. Penelope sat in her playpen enjoying a sunbath. Kat took a nap…

Been cooking and decorating the kitchen today. Put all my bird figurines in the long deep kitchen windowsill and placed Christmas beads and colored glass Christmas balls around them. Looks pretty, maybe nothing will roll off and break in the sink. Hung our stockings on the kitchen’s fireplace screen, decorated the mantle. Made three pecan…

From my archives — I love mornings like today. No plans, no agenda. I’m free to sit and enjoy the birds and the sky scape out the nine lady den windows, sitting happily and warmly under my pink cardinal blanket, Penelope curled up asleep in my lap. The wind is playing a symphony on the…

The sky canvas was a bowl of melted vanilla ice cream today. Father Sky kept the clouds tightly bound together, hard to make out the different colors swirled together but when I sat and stared at the clouds I could see gray and white and a faint purple, a little chocolate syrup mixed with some…

The sky was so mysterious tonight when I took Penelope on her last walk. The moon was full and luminous but was covered by a large purple cloud that look just like a large hand opening and closing its fingers. The moon would peak bravely through a crack in the fingers and then the fingers…

The sky is just as beautiful and blue this morning as the 12-carat Ceylon sapphire in Princess Diana’s engagement ring. I was thinking, where I had seen this shade of blue, trying to describe the color, and the princess’s ring came to mind. The queen was angry because Diana chose a ring from the jeweler’s…