Enjoyed porch perching till mid-afternoon when the heat drove me inside to my reading chair. My yard was full of purple finches and cardinals and doves. Dumb Dumb and four of his dove buddies had a tea party in the middle of the street scrambling and squeaking away when the mail lady sped down the…

The porch is so pleasant this morning. A glorious breeze is pinging the wind chimes and ruffling the petunias. The large bumblebees, fat and sassy, are buzzing around the petunias bending the blooms down as they forage inside for nectar and pollen. This morning is perfectly beautiful. I use that word too much but there’s…

This Sunday is an overcast day of a melted vanilla skyscape! The epitome of a Southern summer day, hot and humid, but without summer’s blue sky. Occasional rain drops softly kiss the landscape and occasional claps of thunder echo in the quietness. The sunset was by invitation only, painted in its beauty behind closed doors.…

Today has been a beautiful day in so many ways. I sat on the porch this morning and ate my bagel and watermelon and watched the cardinals and purple finches and chickadees. Gave up on Mr. Downy Woodpecker but he finally showed up, perching upside down on the suet feeder, still needing a bath. Oldest…

I am worn out! Got up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and came back to bed and lay myself down in a lake of Penelope pee pee! I was upstairs in the guest room. Had to strip the queen size bed of everything. Youngest son heard me so he got up and…

Today was so sultry. Sultry as oppressively hot and humid, not sultry like a Tennessee Williams play. Never got comfortable swing sitting till around dusk. The rain is still intermittent but the cardinals are not deterred. My yard is full of cardinals as the twilight closes, bringing darkness to settle over the landscape, cranking up…

Opening the front door this morning to take Penelope on her first walk of the day I noticed our cats, Kat and Churchill, were no where around. As I walked across the porch a large white pit bull came running around from the side porch. As I froze the dog ran over and licked me…

If anyone saw me trying to untangle Penelope and her leash from the mailbox post today your assumption of me being physically and mentally challenged is correct. I just woke up one day and became a bona fide old lady with all the quirks and all the cricks. Had to take Penelope to vet brother’s…

Radhanath Swani writes, “Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.” Today I observed Mother Nature’s watercolor brushes darken the clouds in blues and grays and purples as she filled the clouds’ bellies with beautiful silver raindrops. The rain fell in soft showers and…

Penelope and I walked in a light misty rain this morning. For some reason while I was walking Penelope a quote from Maya Angelo popped up in my mind. “This is a wonderful day. I haven’t seen this one before.” Never really pondered on it but everyday is different than the one before and the…