Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Well, it seems I need to be packing my purple suitcase for Shady Oaks. I was putting up my Wally World pick-up groceries and noticed I didn’t see a canteloupe so I just figured my youngest son had already put it in the refrigerator. This morning I asked him, “You seen my cantaloupe?” He says,…

Pondering on the porch today. The sky is blue, the sun is warm, the birds are singing, the wind chimes are pinging. God is touching the wind chimes through the breezes he’s creating. The wind is whispering softly right now, playing church music on the organ wind chimes across the street. The day is so…

So many beautiful colors in my world today — the colorful shades and patterns of the beautiful songbirds in their myriad of plumage, the bright clean white of the clouds mixed with grays and purple tints, the wondrous winter blue of Father Sky’s sketched sky canvas, the golden yellow rays of the sunshine, the dark…

Today was a glorious day for porch pondering and porch sitting. My yard is full of a charm of finches and a vatican of cardinals. It’s squabbles and bird songs around the feeders with Fatty and his dove friends frolicking underneath. The mosquitoes came calling today, biting me on the face. Seems too early for…

From my archives on this day of 2024… Been lazy today, sitting in the lady den staring at the bird feeders, Penelope and I cozy under my cardinal blanket. Not many birds on the feeders this morning. I figured the little goldfinches ate so much yesterday they were home in their warm nests, sitting comfortably…

Tom Bodett writes, “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” I think those words are a good definition of happiness but I think I’d change the word happiness to the word content. I think happiness comes…

Today was a beautiful day with hints of the upcoming spring in the air. Would be easy to get an early case of spring fever from the day’s warmth. Saw some lilly of the valley bulbs pushing up through the grass by the driveway. The birds were singing, happy to be feeding in the sunshine’s…

Pondered in the swing several hours today, enjoying the blue sky and the warm sunshine. Father Sky’s pale blue sky canvas was full of jet contrails thinning out, making a tic tac toe board in the heavens. One large winged turkey buzzard was surfing alone on the wind currents, circling up the blue ocean of…

The day waked beautifully, sporting a pale blue sky full of thin cotton candy clouds stretched out along the horizon. The clouds made me think of the cotton fluff inside a stuffed animal toy. After Penelope’s walk I put her in her playpen and filled up the bird feeders. After my bird chores were finished…

The sky was overcast in shades of cigar smoke grays and melted vanilla ice cream beige this morning. When I walked Penelope, Mother Nature was pouring rain from her little watering can. The sun was hidden, sleeping late under her cloud covers. The birds were all over my yard, flitting from feeder to feeder joining…