The birds are cheerfully singing their songs this morning and my dog and my cat are taking their first naps of the day in the warmth of the sun’s ray touching the red porch tiles. I love living in small town America. I love sitting on the porch swing watching the world celebrate another day’s…

“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord,” Psalm 150:6. Today was a glorious day to be alive and thankful for breath — dark blue sky, bright warm sunshine, songbirds singing around the neighborhood, squirrels fussing in the old oaks and tall magnolias, orange monarch and yellow sulphur butterflies dancing on the zinnias as a…

Found the most beautiful maple leaf when I was walking Penelope this morning. The little leaf made me cry all the way home with memories of Chief. We used to bring each other the first glorious fall leaf we found each year. I know he sent the leaf to me from heaven, so pretty in…

I was filling up my bird feeders this morning, sitting in the warm sun, wondering how it was possible I had been out of high school for 50 years. My high school class celebrated the 50 years last night. I didn’t go to the reunion but enjoyed seeing every one in the class photos. As…

I love birds. I’m fascinated by them and could honestly sit in the swing all day watching them visit the feeders in my yard. Didn’t mean to have so many feeders…some are from Alexander City, a few poles with feeders were for hanging baskets, already had poles and feeders here in Roanoke before I moved…

Today is so pretty and sunny, the last remnants of summer playing out in my yard. I’m watching all the bees buzzing around my pansies, taking photos of those kind enough to not fly off when I approach them. The colors contrasting between the bees and the pansies is just as beautiful as the butterflies…

The sunset was so beautiful tonight in its simplisticness. The dusk was soft and warm and the sun slowly set, rolling down the horizon in silver beauty beaming white rays of sunlight to kiss the the tops of the trees, to warm the cardinals’ wings and the fluffy tails of the squirrels. As the sun…

Today started off like fall but ended on a summer note. Got hot when the sun hit the porch mid-afternoon so I came in and sat in my reading chair and watched the movie On Golden Pond. The movie was filmed in Holderness, New Hampshire, on Squam Lake. The autumn scenery is so beautiful in…

Today was a beautiful fall day with cloudless blue sky, warm amber sunshine. My yard is full of beautiful songbirds and bold colored butterflies. The red maple tree up the street is being touched on its crown by Mother Nature’s watercolor brushes, displaying herself in reds and oranges, getting ready to dress up for autumn’s…

Been following the monarch butterflies all around the yard today hoping to get a good photo of them on the orange zinnias. The butterflies are so beautiful, clothed in their autumn colors of burnt orange and black, their little thin legs sporting jet black hose. One finally sat on an orange zinnia and I took…