Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Found a young raccoon in my new trap cage this morning. The marshmallows were the perfect bait. This one was quiet and docile. I walked over to look at it and it just stared back. The last one I caught last summer would hiss and growl when I walked close to the cage. Penelope wanted…

Today was warm enough to do some porch pondering. Penelope enjoyed her porch time and I loved watching all the birds in the yard. The sky was overcast but the collection of cloud colors was so pretty. I’m almost out of bird seed so tomorrow will be a bird banquet of fresh seeds and suet.…

Well, the raccoons had a raiding party last night. Cleaned one feeder out on the side yard and took down the feeder with hot pepper seeds but didn’t eat any seeds so maybe a taste of the hot pepper sent them away. My cage is supposed to come tomorrow so I’ll be feeding them a…

It’s been a lazy Sunday for me and Penelope. We’ve been sitting under the cardinal blanket watching the songbirds on the feeders outside the lady den windows. Our morning walk was a cold one and we walked under an azure blue cloudless sky, no buzzards and no crows, but lots of beautiful little songbirds. The…

The sky was robin egg blue this morning marked with a waxing gibbous moon still up way past his bedtime, so handsome against the blue sky canvas. No clouds, just a lone buzzard circling and winding up in the sky, carried along on the cold wind currents. Lots of tintinnabulations from the wind chimes. The…

Another glorious cold wintry day of the new year. I saw nothing in the azure blue sky today except buzzards and crows, the birds’ black wings glistening in the sunshine, the murder of crows’ caws echoing on the wind. Later Father Sky drug his white pastel stick lightly across the horizon sketching some thin wisps…

The morning was so pretty today, clear blue sky full of jet plane contrails making tic tac toe grids in the sky canopy. Later in the morning the horizon was covered in beautiful rounded clouds, their middles soft gray, their edges outlined in purples and blues. These clouds were floating fast across the sky canopy,…

Saw the most beautiful sunset today. I was cooking supper when it started, a warm honey glow coloring the horizon. I was thinking the pageant would be subdued tonight but when I left the stove to look toward the setting sun, I saw the most glorious sunset with streaks of lavender and purple. The backdrop…

Thought I had a burglar last night when the neighborhood watch dog started barking on my porch at my back door. Crept to the back door with my favorite weapon, a golf club driver. Couldn’t see anything out the back door but looking out the dining room window I could see a raccoon standing up…

Did some porch pondering today siting in the swing, warm sunshine on my face, enjoying a yard filled with beautiful little songbirds. The sky is overcast and vanilla, looking for snow clouds to join their gathering. Occasionally the sun breaks through and I see a sky canopy of blues. A line of doves are sitting…