Today was a beautiful day, blue sky, bright sunshine. Father Sky sketched blue and white and grey and purple clouds, layering them upon each other. The colors of the clouds were stacked like a paint chip card. It rained in the sunshine late afternoon and my granddaughter ran to the window and said, “It’s raining,…

A loving family is such a gift from heaven and I’m blessed with one. My three brothers and I and our children gathered together Saturday at baby brother’s farm to celebrate the beginning of summer. We call it the McMurray Fam Jam, been doing this for about ten years. We had the best time. We’re…

From my archives — Perched in the swing all day thinking I needed to get up and do a few chores but being retired I selfishly decide it’s okay to bird watch the day away waiting for the sunset to send me in the house. The male red-breasted grosbeak came back to my bird buffet…

From my archives but so relevant for today — Today was beauteous! The epitome of a Southern summer day, hot and humid, deep blue sky, occasional clouds, enough clouds for the sun to paint a raspberry and turquoise sunset. I ate a Mrs. B biscuit in the swing and the cardinals joined me on the…

Ate my breakfast this morning sitting in the swing watching two mocking birds chasing a turkey buzzard around the yard next door. The buzzard was flying close to the ground and the mocking birds were hot on his tail feathers. I wondered if the buzzard was crippled. Once they headed across the street I lost…

Today was a beautiful day in so many ways. It was my baby’s 34th birthday. I’m getting old and he’s getting older. That little 4 pound, emergency C-section baby, is a lumberjack of a man now. Hard to believe 34 years have passed since his birth. And where did they go? One of my cousins…

Today was another glorious day…hot like summer is supposed to be but that just makes the sweet ice tea in the Mason jar that much sweeter. Sat on the swing perch and ate my breakfast bagel and drank my coffee and watched the cardinals and purple finches frolicking around the bird feeders. Got to get…

Big boom and a crash of thunder work me up this morning. Penelope jumped up from the end of the bed and leaped off to go to her safe zone under my bed. Even it I put my hand on her and pat her she won’t stay by me during a storm. If I’m in…

Been contemplating all my blessings today as I sit perched in the swing on this hot summer Sunday afternoon. I have been composing some simple prayers today and reading and studying different prayers. I love Native American prayers with all their uncomplicated words and simple symbolism. I think they are so beautifully written and imagine…

Been searching for inspiration today and found a little spark in the first and last stanzas of Barry Cornwall’s poem, The Nights — Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne; whilst the sweet winds load her with garlands of odor, from the bud to the rose…