Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Today’s a hot one. Enjoyed the porch today with the breeze keeping it cool, pinging the wind chimes softly. The wind chimes’ notes were muted by the songbirds. The fighting finches and their fighting fledglings are drowning out the songbird symphony. It’s a beautiful day, the sun is bright and hot, the sky is beautifully…

This was a glorious Thursday morning with a wondrous breeze making porch perching perfect. Sat on the porch swing till it just got too hot. Brought out the box fan but gave up mid-afternoon. I lasted longer than Penelope did, though. As we southerners say, “Man, it’s hot as all get out. I’m burning slap…

Drove back home to Roanoke this morning after a short visit with my grandchildren, driving straight into a cloudless deep blue abyss. From Georgia to Alabama, not a cloud in the sky to mar Father Sky’s blue canvas. The sun was bright and hot, shimmering on the trees lining the highway, a beautiful early morning…

My Mother’s Day words from last year… 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…

Today was a beautiful day of blues skies and stormy skies. We even had a few moments of hail. The sun was bright yellow and so pretty streaming down through the bamboo forest as I watched the thunderstorm clouds roll across the heavens in vibrant shades of purple and blue. After the thunderstorm raged, the…

Today has been full of rain and wind and beautiful songbirds. I sat in the lady den watching a charm of purple finches flock to the bird feeder outside the windows. The little birds fought and squabbled all day on the feeders. They didn’t mind the rain showers. I think we should call them raspberry…

“In the stillness of rain, the soul finds peace, a moment to breathe, and a chance to remember all the beauty in simplicity,” Malcolm Calnan. What a beautiful way to describe a rainy day. I love a rainy day. I’m sitting in my lady den, watching the trees and bamboo take their silver showers. The…

The sky today was a tapestry of colors and cloud shapes, changing from a blue sunny sky to a cloudy overcast sky swirled with gray and purple clouds. My neighborhood has been joyfully quiet all day, the air full of the songbirds’ singing. A big fat wren sat on the bannisters this morning trying to…

The day is waking in all her glory. The birds are singing and flittering all over my yard, the scampering squirrels are stealing sunflower seeds from the bird feeders, and the buzzards are climbing the wind current staircases. Another day spins with its blue sky and warm sunshine. I’m perched in the swing drinking coffee…

The sky is beautifully overcast today in the colors of pewter and silver and slate colored grays. Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” I agree and the overcast skies are just as beautiful to me as the deep blue skies of sunny days. The cloudy sky hasn’t muted…