Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Missed the sunset tonight but don’t think it could have been any more magnificent than this photograph of sunset from my friend in Winter Garden, Florida. What a glorious view she has every night with the sun slowly dropping into Lake Apopka at twilight. She described it as the sun setting “under a pastel comforter…

“And they were canopied by the blue sky, so cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, that God alone was to be seen in Heaven,” Lord Byron. I think the sky today, dark Caribbean blue with not even a wisp of a cloud to mar the sky’s beauty, would inspire Lord Byron. So, so pretty this morning…

A beautiful summer day in my neighborhood today. A gentle cool breeze is pinging the wind chimes, waking the earth from its slumber. The sky is the color of the wild blue yonder, full of fluffy clouds lazily floating along. The warmth from the bright sunshine is making the zinnias a scattered rainbow of colors…

I’ve fallen in love again, with the day’s tranquil twilight. Never seen it more beautiful than tonight. As I perched in the swing, I watched the sun slip below the horizon, listening as the twilight whispered words of love to the earth, bringing the stars and the moon out from their hiding places. Twilight is…

Pondered on the porch till mid afternoon today, the porch cooled by a summer breeze, the sun shaded by large bleached white and gray cigar smoke clouds floating in the azure blue sky. The red bellied woodpecker finally noticed the new suet in his feeders and enjoyed a breakfast feast. I was so happy to…

Did my yard chores this morning, sweating out my clothes, my eyes burning with sweat dripping in them. Just got too late a start and the heat and humidity beat me down. Did notice the summer sky, though. Never too hot for me to not gaze at the heavens and appreciate all the beauty of…

Another beautiful day the Lord hath made. Glorious blue sky with white cauliflower shaped clouds and clear yellow sunshine, a sultry summer day, sweltering like Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. I filled up the bird feeders, washed the bird baths, and watered the garden and I was done. Just too hot and humid to…

My friend described this morning’s awakening day perfectly, “sailor blue sky and goose down clouds…movin’ slow like a small town Christmas parade.” I watched the snow white sun kissed clouds meandering across the sky and enjoyed all the songbird symphonies and wind chime sings. My yard was full of birds and butterflies. I think the…

Spent the day with my dearest friend and we laughed the day away and tea partied with DQ Blizzards. Every time I visit I see new treasures in her eclectic collections and she always places a few in my hands when I leave. I love her! Had a beautiful hour’s drive over to her home,…

Oldest brother woke me up with the doorbell this morning with this, “You just get up? You know what time it is?” Yes, I just got up, I thought, and I had no idea what day or what time it was. I recently purchased an stationary exercise bike and that thing is as good as…