Ponderings from the Porch Swing

I’m sitting in the lady den watching the sun getting ready to roll down the horizon. She’s dressed in a gown of raspberry pink, peach taffeta, sparkling in her own glow. On either side of her, low clouds of pale blueberry and vanilla set the stage for the sunset pageant. As the sun walks down…

Dagnabbit and consternation, those heathen sons of bunny rabbit raccoons stole two suet baskets last night. I’ve looked all over my yard and the neighbors’ yard and I can’t find them. They usually leave them in the yard after they eat the suet. I even wire the baskets shut and they still open them. After…

Today is a wintry day, overcast sky thick with vanilla grayish clouds, spewing rain every so often. The birds are all over my yard stuffing their little stomachs with seeds, getting ready for the cold temperatures. Been two days without any raccoon trouble so guess the clove and cinnamon oil are working. Good day for…

Beautiful day for pondering in the swing. Penelope pondered in her play pen watching the squirrels under the bird feeders and I pondered in the swing watching the songbirds on the feeders. My yard is full of chickadees, titmice, purple finches, goldfinches, a few doves, and the ever faithful flock of cardinals. Counted seven pairs…

You could not ask for a prettier day than this morning, dark azure blue sky crisscrossed with bright white jet contrails turning into huge feather clouds before dissipating. Intermittent cool wind pinging the wind chimes, making their tintinnabulations into a yard symphony. The feeders are full of birds, enjoying sunflower and thistle seeds and apple…

I love mornings like today. No plans, no agenda. I’m free to sit and enjoy the birds, the skyscape out the nine lady den windows, sitting happily and warmly under my pink cardinal blanket, Penelope curled up asleep in my lap. The wind is playing a boisterous symphony on the wind chimes and the bamboo…

Today is such a pretty day with its blue sky and white clouds. The clouds are floating on the cool breeze filling up with rain and changing colors to grays and blues and purples getting ready to do a little storming tonight. The blue sky canvas is azure and turquoise where it peeks through when…

Today was so pretty, clean blue sky blushed with thin wisps of frail white clouds, a wind strong and cool playing melodies on the wind chimes. My spend-the-night company and I sat in the lady den with our little puppy dogs and watched out the windows as the bamboo bent and twisted in the wind…

Such a beautiful day today in a myriad of ways! The sky was overcast and vanilla white, thick clouds accented with blues and purples but inside my 103-year-old family home the sun was beaming down in my dining room on me and my friends. These women around the table are all such wonderful human beings,…

Having a Christmas titty tatty tea party, as my Aunt Margaret used to call them, with some Alexander City friends tomorrow. Been cleaning and making pies and treats so I didn’t even notice the sky or the sunset today. Didn’t mean for those things to pass me by but just got busy and missed them.…