Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Been thinking about my grandmothers all day. Have torn up the house looking for the only photo I have of my Grandmother McMurray. She’s holding my son Thomas on his first Christmas. He’s dressed in a red velvet bubble suit. I have several photos of my Grandmother Lane. Re-posting this blog ‘cause these memories comfort…

Delightful morning. Was 63 degrees when I sat down on the swing this morning. So pleasant eating breakfast. The sky was cerulean, so clear and cloud free. As the morning waked up, God drug his white pastel longways across the sky and changed the sky canvas’ color to pale blue. Later the sky turned a…

Today my porch swing is a tiny boat. The boat is nestled in the ocean waters of a beautiful rocky coast harbor town in New England. The breeze is easily moving the boat along, gently pinging the boat’s fog bells. The wind is calm enough to coax individual notes from the wind chimes hanging on…

This morning the sky was the bluest of blues with not a cloud on the sky’s pulchritudinous canvas. The cardinals were enjoying the feeders with the occasional downy woodpecker hanging upside down eating from the suet basket. I saw a little wren, not very old. He was a skinny juvenile and didn’t have the rounded…

Beautiful quiet morning today. Only cardinals flitting around. I slept later than usual and ate a late breakfast on the porch pondering in the swing. I could smell the gardenias blooming beside the porch banister. Chief rooted the bush from a bloom he picked one Sunday at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church here in Roanoke. Had…

Another pretty morning for porch pondering. Bright clear sunshine. Delicate blue sky with lots of clouds. Made me remember all the summer mornings I’d race out of the house and hop on my bicycle. Just felt and smelled like a summer day from my childhood. The clouds have been so interesting lately. They come and…

Ate breakfast on the porch this morning. The sky was dark blue and cloudless, a serene endless blue canvas. The sun was gleaming and waking up Mother Nature and her critters. Another beautiful day in the making with just a slight breeze to make porch sitting pleasant. The birds were slow to the feeders so…

Such a pretty pleasant day it is. Bright clear sunshine. A few Clorox white clouds hung on the sky’s clothesline. Cool breeze, just strong enough to coax a quiet yard symphony from the wind chimes. Was thinking if it’s this beautiful here on Earth it must be glorious in heaven this morning. Chief always said…

Another glorious day compliments of Mother Nature and God. Dark cerulean blue sky with ethereal chiffon clouds, fat and fluffy. Lots of birds singing. Sun so bright I needed sunglasses to sit on the porch. The sun was accenting all the different greens in the yards and trees lining the horizon. The kind of sun…

This morning was perfectly beautiful. I use that word too much but there’s just not another word. Maybe I should write the morning was splendid with an arctic blue sky and lines of thin soft-hued white clouds stretched across the horizon. The sun was shining on the neighborhood’s freshly cut lawns making them sparkle with…