Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Did my porch pondering and swing sitting in the dusk of late afternoon after I had watered my flowers. Only my faithful cardinals were flitting around today. Was just too humid and too hot earlier for much porch sitting and pondering. The day was beautiful, though, lots of fluffy white clouds. After lunch pale gray…

Today was beauteous! The epitome of a Southern summer day — hot and humid, deep blue sky, occasional clouds, enough clouds for the sun to paint a raspberry sunset on the turquoise horizon. I ate a Mrs. B biscuit perched in the swing and the cardinals joined me on the feeders for their breakfast. I…

Sat outside this morning in the swing and enjoyed the quiet, eating my breakfast bagel and watching all the birds on the feeders. The day was beautifully sunny with a cloudless azure sky. Mother Nature gets an a plus for her humidity makings today. I’d ponder in the swing for a while, sweat to death,…

Today is a pulchritudinous summer Sunday. Love learning new words! My yard is as serene and quiet as a heavenly church service, punctuated with a few peeps from the colorful cardinals and the occasional hymns of the singing cicadas. The breeze is kissing the wind chimes, coaxing individual notes from their silver pipes with wooden…

Another summer day just as pretty as a peach. I sat outside watching the sky as the Lord drew some feather wisps of clouds with his white pastel on the dark blue sky canvas. Several clouds looked like large white peacock feathers. No snow white fluffy clouds today. The birds took pleasure in the newly…

Another beautiful southern summer morning. My yard is quiet except for the distant cooing of a mourning dove. The weed eater symphony is playing loudly in the yard across the street. I’ll be glad when the last note is played. Don’t know why Mother Nature has been talking so quietly lately. Maybe she, too, is…

Never seen a more beautiful day. Been trying all morning to think of the best way to describe today and not having much luck with the correct adjectives. Everything is clean and bright. The day is luminous and brilliantly clear. The sky’s dark blue, the clouds white as snow, the sun has bleached the rain…

The Lord has blessed us today with a beautiful summer morning. The earth is quiet and still, so green and alive after the rainy days. Yellow butterflies are all over my yard, drinking from the flower blossoms, flexing their wings on the colorful petals. The sky canvas is azure blue. The clouds are vivid white,…

Ate breakfast on the porch this morning. I have found a new delicious bagel, Blooming Berries. So delish! Penelope whined the whole time I was enjoying my breakfast but I didn’t share with her. Did give her a piece of cantaloupe. She loves that and she went back to bird watching after she wolfed it.…

Went on a walk with Penelope this morning searching for small things that were beauties in nature’s colors. I found a fall colored oak leaf, a stem of small delicate light purple flowers, a tiny green spiked weed, and a watermelon colored blossom that had blown off a crepe myrtle. Nature’s colors fascinate me in…