Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Today was a gray day, dull and free of color, the sky spitting occasional rain drops to wet the pavement and make the bamboo fronds heavy. Father Sky created a dense overcast sky and didn’t even leave a small crack in the clouds for the sun to peek through. I stared at the clouds trying…

Today is the third anniversary of my brother-in-law’s death. He died six weeks after Chief. He was a devoted family man to Chief’s sister and their family and fulfilled the role of a loving grandfather for our children. They called him Uncie and they loved him dearly. We lived next door to them and have…

Father Sky cannot get his sky canvas colored to his liking today. When I walked Penelope this morning, the sky was overcast with a thick white cloud cover, some clouds colored with blue-gray tints. Counted 12 buzzards circling around. If they want me they better get a couple more dozen friends to help pick me…

Another beautiful day the Lord has made! Robin egg colored sky, bleached white fluffy clouds basking in the bright morning sun, lazily moving across the sky, joining with cigar smoke colored clouds to veil the sun late afternoon, keeping the sunset from my curious eyes. The sun was standing on the stage in the overcast…

The funniest thing happened last night. I went to bed at midnight and as I do every night, I told Alexa on my Echo to play Carpenters’ music for an hour. I usually say play music from the 70s. Well, I must’ve gone right to sleep. I woke up a while later and I heard…

Today was a blue sky, porch swing, church pew pondering day. Father Sky never picked up his cloud making pastels. Did not see a cloud all day, just one jet contrail that changed into a giant feather cloud and floated away. Penelope enjoyed her pen, snoozing in the warm sunshine. The songbirds were crowded on…

The sky is overcast today with a blue tint to the layers of gray clouds. The rain is pouring down, the wind blowing, making the bamboo dance and twist and bend way down. The bird feeders outside the lady den windows have been full of goldfinches and cardinals all day. Not even the bold wind…

Another wonderful porch swing pondering day in a yard just bursting with flocks of songbirds. Blue sky with feather clouds and jet contrails, stretching themselves till they blended into the blue of the sky canvas. Warm clear sunshine, then the clouds gathered together mid-day to make a thin overcast cloud cover to block the sunshine’s…

Oh, what a glorious sunset pageant tonight, a candy treat for the eyes. I waited all day, porch sitting and porch pondering, determined not to miss Mother Nature’s beautiful watercolor painting of the sun setting. The sunset painting began at twilight as a faint watercolor wash, in the colors of a Georgia peach, lit up…

Father Sky filled his blue sky canvas with cirrus clouds today, thin and wispy layers making cloud feathers as they intercepted the jet contrails in the high sky. When we have cirrus clouds we usually have a beautiful sunset. I cooked a good supper tonight for Stew and me so being the “pig” I am,…