Had a happy morning today with my oldest niece and her precious daughter, a beautiful clone of her mother at that age. We ate breakfast at the Huddle House, my first time, and I enjoyed my breakfast and being with them. Taught the youngest niece how to drink the little coffee creamer milks from their…

Another beautiful fall day with deep blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and again, no rain. Decided to water the tomatoes still growing in my garden and I found a squash plant blooming. Guess watering was the wrong thing to do ‘cause I just read decreasing watering at the end of the season helps speed up…

“This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it,” Psalm 118:24. Such a beautiful sunset this afternoon, pale wildfire embers of pink and orange and blue and lavender, softly burning across the skyline and up into the blue heavens. The sun was behind her vanilla colored clouds but…

I love quotes and I’m constantly writing them down on scraps of paper when I read books and magazines or watch films. Bad thing is I usually can’t read my chicken scratching so I have to search the internet to find the exact quote’s words and the person to attribute it to. Been reading quotes…

I love a pretty day when the weather is fallish, the sky so blue and clear, the clouds randomly sketched by Father Sky, white where their tops are kissed by the sun, shaded pale gray and lavender on their bottoms, floating separately across the horizon, not joining hands or blending together. I sat in the…

My cat is becoming a murderess executioner. She has been on a killing spree since Sunday. Chipmunks, lizards, and songbirds have been caught, tortured, and executed by Kat. She killed the fattest chipmunk this morning, I could hear her crunching the bones as she ate it. Ruined my breakfast. I took what was left of…

Today has been a happy day full of smiles and laughter. My dearest friend came over from Alexander City and we ate lunch on the porch on a little red wrought iron table dressed with presidential china, cloth napkins on our laps, feasting on chicken salad in croissants, pimento cheese sandwiches with no edges, chips…

Broke my favorite coffee cup on the front porch tile this morning. Dropped it as I was sitting down in the swing. Had the cup for years, always holding pens and pencils on my desk, but it was so pretty I decided to use it for what it was intended for, to hold my hot…

Today’s sky was a watered silk gown of vanilla and gray hues stretched across the horizon, fanning out in the fall breeze, like a young bride’s wedding veil. The beauty in the sky was the layers of soft subtle colors intermingling on the clouds as they floated slowly through the sky. Some might not see…

I’m perched in the swing this morning, eating my bagel, drinking hot coffee from my favorite bird mug, enthralled with the butterflies lightly tap dancing on the pansies, the butterflies’ ballerina costumes complemented by the oranges, yellows, and dark purples of the pansy blossoms. Fall flowers are so beautiful when the deep shades of color…