Tag Archives: nature

Summing Up Twenty-Five

Posted on December 29, 2025 by daeja's view

It was a chilly 6°F with a significant covering of snow this morning when I very briefly took the dog out. Now propped up in bed, wearing an old tie-dye sweatshirt from a local store that no longer exists, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Animal Stories, Autumn, Birds, Cooking, Daeja's Garden, Deafness, disability accommodations, Dogs, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Friends, Gardening, Hearing Impaired, Memories, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Wildlife, Winter, Wow! | Tagged 1970's flashbacks, 2025, a blog year, a year of flowers, annual summation, bad hair, barred owl, birding, Birds, CNN Sucks, Earworm of the day, esoteric subjects, Fence Dino, fighting windmills, flora and fauna, glut of panettone, Grateful Dead, hearing loss grief, ice, Muscovy ducks, nature, naughty dog, no politics, papillon, photography, strange skies, sunday dutch baby, unexpected random art, unread books, we don't change that much, Wildlife, worst concert | Leave a comment

Purple

Posted on May 31, 2025 by daeja's view

Right on schedule, it’s Purple Time on and around the Urban Porch again. It’s been raining, raining, raining, adorning the petals in watery gems. Stopping by a friend’s house over the long holiday weekend past, I was met with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wow! | Tagged Bearded Iris, clematis, colorways, End of May, Flowers, garden, Gardening, Ground Ivy, Lavender, Lobelia, May, may flowers, may garden, meaning of purple, nature, northeast in May, purple moods, purples of May, Salvia, Siberian Iris, so many purples, Spring, spring flowers, Wisteria | Leave a comment

A Celebration of Fertility

Posted on May 1, 2025 by daeja's view

There was a dead ant floating inside the teapot yesterday morning, the arrival of such yet another sure-fire harbinger of Spring. This particular teapot has a very narrow spout, which makes it rather nice if you make pour-over coffee. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Animal Stories, Birds, Daeja's Garden, Dogs, Gardening, Holidays, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wildlife, Wow! | Tagged ants, bees, Beltane, Birds, cycles of flowers, flora, Flowers, Gardening, look in your teapot, May Day, my papillon, nature, new blooms, olfactory bliss, open the windows, photography, Spring, the rotting porch, The Urban Porch, turn turn turn | Leave a comment

Another Year of Two Springs

Posted on April 18, 2025 by daeja's view

I’ve been away from this page, having had the good fortune once again to dwell amidst spring blooms in the west first, which will be followed a few weeks later with newly emerging blossoms of the east. This post will … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, Travel, treasures, Uncategorized, Wow! | Tagged April, California blooms, Color, falling into spring, flower crazy, Flowers, garden, Gardening, Gardens, Napa, nature, NorCal, patterns, photography, scent of flowers, Sonoma, springtime, west coast, wine country | Leave a comment

Water

Posted on July 29, 2023 by daeja's view

Repeatedly throughout the day, I move from the air conditioned space that has provided relief from the heat and step out onto The Urban Porch ™ in order to leave the chill and be enveloped in the warm, bathwater density … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Flashback, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather | Tagged August, beauty, end of summer, Family, heat, humidity, July, Memories, nature, observations, Rain, rituals, Summer, urban porch | Leave a comment

Transitions

Posted on October 16, 2022 by daeja's view

The coloring of Autumn is building to all its glory, and I walk around sighing with mouth agape. But I will share all of that at a later time. Right now the large and small creatures are in motion. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, Autumn, Perspective, treasures, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tagged animals, Autumn, Changes, falling into autumn, insects, nature, small wonders, Wildlife | 1 Comment

Mantis

Posted on April 22, 2022 by daeja's view

Last fall my three-year-old granddaughter became fascinated with a dead praying mantis she found in my driveway. That was the second one I had seen around the yard that week, after not seeing any. A few days later I discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wow! | Tagged Earth day, mantis, nature, praying mantis | 3 Comments

Religion

Posted on November 4, 2018 by daeja's view

It felt like everyone was waiting “forever” for autumn colors to happen, since it was definitely later than usual. The leaves stayed green, but a dull green, and some trees had already turned brown without any show of color at all. … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Perspective, Uncategorized, Wow! | Tagged beauty, church of nature, discovery, Fall, finding God, foliage, grace, gratefulness, nature, road trip, the road to enlightenment, universe, vibrations | 2 Comments

Of Summer

Posted on June 23, 2016 by daeja's view

Standing outside watering a thirsty garden watching prisms arc through the spray under a late afternoon sun I am reduced to a child reliving the joy of running under the rainbow in the sprinkler on a hot summer day Sweet … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, summer, Uncategorized | Tagged Childhood, growing old, looking back, magic, Memories, nature, Summer, summer time | 4 Comments

Miracles and Magic In Your Hands

Posted on May 6, 2016 by daeja's view

Have you stopped to notice all the little miracles that pass through our hands daily? While skimming through a number of recent and stored photographs, I could not help but realize how many beautiful things these worn out old hands … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective, Photography, Spring, Uncategorized, Wow! | Tagged beautiful earth, beautiful nature, gifts of spring, miracles, nature, small wonders, these old hands, wonder, wonderous things | 1 Comment