Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Today was a glorious spring day, dark blue sky with a few cotton boll clouds, a bright sunshine warming the landscape. The winds of March blew all day and made the bamboo dance and the wind chimes ping out loud symphonies. The wind was too cool for me so I pondered in the lady den.…

(From my archives.) My grandmothers were as different as night and day! I loved them fiercely and still miss them! Been thinking about them today while I pondered in the porch swing. My grandmother Doris McMurray, “Mama Doris,” dropped straight off the pages of a children’s book. She was plump and happy and a wonderful…

Been perched in the swing on the porch, pondering most of today. Tried to eat my breakfast sitting in the swing but the wind was blowing the catkins off the old oak tree like a heavy snow flurry. The catkins kept landing in my coffee and on my plate. There were so many raining down,…

Today, April’s Fool Day, is my 68th birthday. I was born on Easter Sunday while the church bells were ringing for Sunday services in Roanoke. April Fool’s Day has on been on Easter Sunday only four times since 1900. The next time Easter Sunday will fall on April 1 will be in 2029. My grandchildren…

Today was a glorious Easter Sunday. The blue sky was sunny and home to a few wisps of thinly sketched white clouds. The songbirds and bumble bees and hummingbirds and the occasional butterfly flitted around my yard enjoying nature’s dance of spring. The warm breezes played wind chime symphonies that blended in with the birds’…

Beautiful spring day today, clear cloudless deep blue sky, warm bright sunshine. The birds were happily feeding on the feeders and on the ground around the poles. The gray squirrels, tails curled and chattering, played tag, chasing each other across the street from yard to yard, racing in circles around the old oak tree trunks.…

Today has been beautiful in so many ways! I had company come spend the day and we had a late breakfast brunch — bacon, sausage, country ham, fruit, biscuits, scrambled eggs, grits, and melted cheese. She loves breakfast and so did Chief. After breakfast we spent the day on the porch in the warm sunshine.…

Forty-three years ago tonight, I got married to Chief standing in front of the fireplace here in our family’s ancestral home. Happy anniversary, Chief. We had almost forty years together and it wasn’t long enough for me. I love you and miss you. Found a funny little quote about bamboo from Thomas Stearns Eliot when…

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we are looking through the gates of heaven,” John Lubbock. I’ve always had that thought when I’m sitting in the swing and watching a magnificent sunset. Couldn’t see the sunset today because of the cloud cover but the clouds were so pretty, colored in all…

Today began cool and rainy, mid-day the spring sunshine warmed the yard and when dusk settled the cool again came sighing upon the landscape of my street. The afternoon sky was a study of white and blue and aqua and grey and purple. Father Sky pushed his colored pastel sticks all across the sky canvas,…