Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Beautiful day today the Lord has made. Father Sky colored his morning sky blue with fluffy white clouds. Later he picked up his pastels again and sketched purple and gray thunderstorm clouds, cooled the air down to the seventies, clapped some thunder and added a few lightning bolts, but only let a few sprinkles of…

You could not deny summer today, hot and humid, but glorious with all the song bird symphonies and the dance recitals of the butterflies. I watered all the flowers and vegetables, giving them a good soaking. Cleaned the bird baths and pushed them further into the shade. I’m still hung up on Emerson quotes. Love…

Happy 248th birthday to America, the wondrous and glorious slice of heaven I call home. We are so fortunate to live in a free country. And I’m so grateful for my small town American life. Enjoyed swimming at baby brother’s farm this afternoon and we had delicious barbecued ribs with all the trimmings for supper.…

Another hot Southern summer day, a scorcher but so pretty with the bright blue sky and the white fluffy clouds. I filled up the bird feeders this morning and soon as I got back to the porch Fatty the squirrel was hanging upside down raking sunflower seeds in his mouth lickety-split. I got the cooking…

Sat on the porch this morning eating my bagel and fruit and it was marvelous, darlings! Seventy-six degrees with overcast sky the color of melted vanilla ice cream, birds all over the yard singing their morning symphonies, squirrels running around the oak tree trunk, my flowers all blooming in a riot of colors, not closing…

Sat on the porch this morning pondering and watching the birds. The day is beginning beautifully, deep blue sky canvas dotted with bleached fluffy white clouds. A gentle cooling breeze, too soft to even ping the wind chimes, and the box fan are making the porch pondering pleasant. I love sitting here. I hope before…

Another beautiful day today but still a scorcher. I got up and headed outside to walk Penelope and realized I had both my shirt and my shorts on backwards! Not even going to try to figure out what that might mean. At this stage in my life it doesn’t really matter, I guess. I filled…

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it,” Psalm 118:24. Another glorious day but a scorcher and the humidity showed up and showed out. I watered my flowers and vegetables and the sweat dripped down my face and burned my eyes. Cleaned the bird baths and…

Sat out in the swing this morning looking out onto my little slice of heaven on Earth and thought what a lucky girl I am. Father Sky has rendered a deep blue sky with clouds in colors of white and gray and purple. Where there are breaks in the clouds the sun is kissing the…

Sat on the porch this afternoon enjoying the coolest most wonderful rain shower, refreshing the air, giving my vegetables and flowers and lawn a much needed drink of water to quench their thirst. I could almost watch the grass getting greener by the minute. Just didn’t last long enough to really deeply water things. The…