“Jesus, it’s beautiful! Great mother of big apples it is a pretty world,” Kenneth Patchen. I feel the same way. Just as pretty a day as I knew it would be after the storms of yesterday and last night. The earth is fresh and green and the sun is warm and the sky is blue…

Pennies from Heaven, I love the lyrics of that song — “Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven. Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You’ll find your fortunes fallin’ all over the town. Be sure your umbrella is upside down. Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers. If…

Took Penelope for her morning walk and watched an acrobatic routine with the squirrels jumping from the power lines to the bamboo forest. Looked like they were practicing to join the Flying Wallendas. They always jump off the bamboo right before they’re slapped to the ground. Later I took oldest sister-in-law to the grocery store…

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one,” Dr. Seuss. That’s good way to look at life and if you are retired it’s a good motto. Today was a beautiful day, lots of sunshine and pretty clouds, a yard full of songbirds. Father Sky sketched his clouds gathered together in shades of cigar…

I’m sitting on the porch eating my breakfast bagel watching the sun creep up the sidewalk getting closer to the porch. The purslanes in the cement urns are getting ready to open their blooms, waiting patiently for the sun’s first kiss of warmth to spread their petals wide, to show off their beauty and their…

The clouds are fluffy and white stacked on top of each other, bright white where the sun has kissed their crowns and pale grayish blue where Father Sky sketched his pastels across their bellies. I’m watching a parade of doves, four in row, bobbing their way down the sidewalk hopping over the grass in the…

Such a beautiful day today in so many ways. The sun is shining, my vegetables are growing, the birds are singing, and the squirrels are chattering. We’ve had two brief sprinkles of rain while the sun brightly beamed. I love when that happens. I watched a purple cloud hovering on the edge of the horizon…

Another day as pretty as can be. Don’t think I’ve had a good night’s sleep since Chief died but I did last night. I’m up earlier than usual having slept the whole night through for the first time in years. I woke to the birds singing and watched two squirrels frolic in the bamboo fronds…

Another beautiful day in the books, so warm I’ll call it a summer day, blue sky sketched full of clouds by Father Sky, the sun beaming down very warmly, birds frolicking all around the yard. I ate my breakfast in the swing and watched the birds and the two squirrels, Fatty and Brownie. Yesterday the…

Pretty morning with lots of birds and squirrels, delicate rain showers. So relaxing to sit in the swing and hear the rain drop symphony mixed with bird song melodies. I put my porch ferns and peace lilies on the sidewalk to enjoy the showers. The pansies are standing tall loving the cooling rain drops. The…