Ponderings from the Porch Swing

First quote of the day, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day,” Mark Twain. That’s great, I love that! Made me think about a story Chief loved to tell our children. He and a friend were at a restaurant once and…

The sky was painted blue perfectly today. When I walked Penelope it was cold and clear, not even a wisp of a cloud to mar the sky’s blueness. Late afternoon Father sky sketched a few clouds for Mother Nature to paint at sunset. I hear the old hoot owl hooting his song. Sounds like he’s…

The sky is perfectly beautiful this morning, bluish purple clouds covering the horizon, lighter gray and radiant white clouds hurrying along in the high sky. It’s very chilly. I can feel a snow flake flurry on the wind but the clouds and Mother Nature just can’t connect today to make it happen. She’s dropping snow…

Today was picture perfect. Dark blue sky, warm sunshine. Father Sky dragged his white pastel stick intermittently across the sky, occasionally leaving streaks of cloud wisps. Late afternoon he drew rounded fluffy clouds, graying the tops, placing them around the sky in a pretty here and pretty there pattern. The clouds were so white and…

Beautiful morning, blue sky with clean white clouds, bright warm sunshine. While I was taking Penelope on her first walk, I was happy to see Father Sky’s blue canvas, anticipating a beautiful sun setting pageant. The clouds thickened on the sky canvas in late afternoon, vanilla layers of gray and blue, but the clouds parted…

Stew and I drove up to Peachtree City early morning to spend Christmas Day with Thomas and his family. We had the nicest day. The kids are growing up but they still had the Christmas morning Santa Claus excitement. So did I! Today may have been overcast and rainy but the sunshine from my family…

Another melted vanilla ice cream sky today. So pretty with all the cloud layers pooling together, grays and blues and whites. I sat in the swing a long time today, lonely for Chief and our daughter Rosalyn. I’m trying to remember our last Christmas together but I can’t conjure up the memories with Rosie. She…

Today is so pretty with its blue sky and bright warm sunshine. I’m enjoying pondering in the swing. The sky is full of rounded, bleached white, fluffy clouds, the kinds of clouds we drew on our art paper as children. A few of the clouds are gathering rain getting ready to water the Earth on…

The sky is so, so beautiful this morning, robin egg blue, covered in places with crisp white mackerel scale clouds slowly floating and spreading their scales across the horizon. My yard is swarming with birds. I’m sitting in the swing pondering and watching the little chickadees and titmice on a feeder closest to the porch.…

Another cool December day, but beautiful in its understated colors. The sky looks like a big bowl of melted vanilla ice cream with a little chocolate syrup and a little blueberry syrup all swirled together on the sky canvas. I’m looking forward to seeing what Mother Nature will paint on this canvas at sun set.…