Going to bed last night I gave myself a lecture about doing some household chores today. Nope! Sat down on the porch to eat my bagel and I’m still sitting here at 3:30 in the afternoon. And in the great schemes of things it doesn’t matter if I sit here as long as I want.…

Today was rather fallish in my corner of the world. I walked Penelope in a light rain this morning and tried to sit on the porch and ponder but it was just too cool and damp. Pitiful when 61 degrees makes me cold. Guess I’m getting old. If this day was in the fall it…

Hope all have had a beautiful Mother’s Day with your children. For those of us who have children in heaven I know they are looking down and smiling at us. The day has been a good day in so many ways! My youngest son gave me the World Encyclopedia of Butterflies and Moths and I…

Been pondering on Mother’s Day perched in the porch swing and watching the songbirds. The sky is dark blue and has a few wisps of clouds floating along like beautiful fish in a blue crystal fish bowl. When the fish swam away the sky stayed cloud free the rest of the day. I read quotes…

“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…