Ponderings from the Porch Swing

For all my dearest friends on this New Year’s Eve, I leave you these words from Ralph Waldo’s Emerson — This is my wish for you: comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when your spirits sag, beauty…

Winter celebrated itself with an ocean blue sky and a cold wind today, the day’s beauty so pretty in its cloudless sky. I walked Penelope this morning wearing her little blue jeweled sweater. She loves cold morning and runs around friskily dragging me down the broken sidewalk. I believe she has the strength to drag…

I love a pretty day when the weather is cold. The sky was so glorious this morning. I opened the window curtains and got back in bed to watch the day awaken. I could hear all my wind chimes, their loud tintinnabulations ringing out morning prayers. The sky looked like Mother Nature had dragged her…

I’m perched in the porch swing enjoying the day. The sky is so beautiful. The clouds are color washed on their bottoms in shades of grays and blues and purples, the sky a study of cigar smoke overcast clouds. The sun occasionally breaks through and lets me see a spot of blue sky before the…

I fell asleep watching Gunsmoke late afternoon and missed the beginning of the sunset pageant. But when I woke and looked outside the horizon was bathed in a tropical glow of clouds colored golden mango honey. The trees were so pretty, their bare black limbs silhouetted against the golden sky line. As the sun rolled…

Today has been another beautiful winter day, cloud cover thick enough to block out Mother Nature’s sunset pageant, but wondrous in its heavy colored layers of grays and pale purples. Temperatures warm enough for porch pondering. The birds are enjoying the feeders, happily singing and flitting around. The flock of faithful cardinals always make me…

Ever had a day so glorious you just can’t soak it all in and you’re still covered in golden family fairy dust at bedtime? I’m sitting in the lady den, snug in my feeted pajamas, (yeah it’s warm outside but it’s cold in my house) watching my little fireplace heater logs thinking of all the…

Another melted vanilla ice cream sky courtesy of Father Sky’s pastels, so pretty with all the cloud layers pooling together, gray and blues and whites. I’m sitting on the back porch of my niece’s family home high up in the Randolph County hills looking at the mountains so beautiful in their colors subdued by the…

Today has been a glorious day! The sky was pale ocean blue, a few blue spaces sketched with thin blades of white clouds, their bellies cigar smoke gray. They day began cool but the sun warmed the earth as I sat perched in the porch swing watching the songbirds on the feeders. Titmice and chickadees…

Today was a beautiful day of overcast clouds gathered in cigar smoke grays. After sunset the sky was a canvas of deep purples, so beautiful in their different watercolored brush strokes. I missed the pageant of sunset but I know it was glorious. Picked up Penelope this morning from middle brother’s vet clinic. She’s jealous…