Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Sitting in the swing this morning eating my bagel and watching the melodious little songbirds. I loved South Carolina’s ocean sky but there’s nothing like my Alabama blue sky. I’m content back on my front porch, perched in my swing. Psalm 34:18 reads, “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in…

Well, the vacation is over. I’m one tired Grandmaw but what a glorious week at Hilton Head. Drove home to Alabama this afternoon traveling under a beautiful blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. All the way home I thought about all the wonderful days I spent with my oldest son and his family. My…

I love this Erna Bombeck quote. “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy and…

Another wonderful day in the summer sun. We had a storm mid-morning. I love a rainy day at the beach watching the storm clouds roll in and gather, booming out their thunder, bolting out their lightning, dropping their rain on Mother Earth. We had enjoyed the pool till the thunder and purple clouds drove us…

Put my beach chair out in the ocean this morning, letting the waves grab my feet, trying to drag me out to deeper water. The large brown pelicans were on shore patrol, flying low over the ocean like B-52 bombers, dropping into the waves, disguising themselves as tugboats, bobbing up and down like toys on…

I’ve had a beautiful day with my family, a gift of joy, and many a deposit to my memory’s bank. We’ve been to the pool and played cards and rode bikes and worked on our puzzle and celebrated my youngest grandson’s fourteenth birthday. Family togetherness is a gift from God. Quoted this often and felt…

Enjoyed today with the sun and the glorious ocean. The beach was full of birds — the tugboat penguins, the dive bombing gannets, and the quarreling crows. The old great blue heron stalked the beach fishermen, snatching their bait fish when an opportunity opened. A snowy egret wandered around wearing her yellow high heels, watching…

Did some bird watching today, seated in my red striped beach chair, my feet in the Atlantic Ocean, watching two dolphins frolic in the blue green ocean waters. A murder of crows playing in the loblolly pines on the side of our beach house kept distracting me while I was on shark patrol, cawing and…

I’m full of delicious shrimp, walking on the beach at Hilton Head, South Carolina, my toes wet from the ocean waves. I can feel the tired heart beat of the ocean as it laps on the shore. I’m following a tuxedoed old man, a Great Blue Heron, his skinny legs taking deliberate steps on the…

Traveling this morning under a sky so blue it’s almost purple. The road stretches out in front of me, heat shimmering up. Another hot day in the south and I love it. Didn’t rain at my house yesterday, first time in a while, and the temperature was cooler. Enjoyed my porch perching yesterday and bird…