I hope everybody had a great Easter!  Spring is in the air here on the home front and I catch myself thinking about the old porch swing on my grandparent's porch that I spent so many happy moments on.  So I went back into my blog archives and found this one:

Lord, take me back just once more....

To that wonderful old front porch where I sat on the swing.  In the faint light, I can see Grandaddy over there in his lounger in the corner as he quietly smoked his pipe and gazed out at the fireflies dancing in the night air. 

Mosquitoes buzzed outside the screened porch as I sat in the swing and smelled the Mesquite and China Berry trees just outside and the roses that grew just behind me.

Crickets and tree frogs sang their endless song as I breathed in the cool dry air and wondered at the absolute one-ness I felt with this place I loved so much.  Grandaddy was a quiet man, and I was perfectly happy to be quiet there with him as I drank in my surroundings and felt totally at peace.

I thought those moments would last forever....wished and hoped they would.  Even at such a young age, that old porch was my sanctuary....the place that I felt totally at home.  It was a feeling of total belonging that I've never been able to explain, but it remains with me to this day.

Now Grandaddy is gone....

Grandmother is gone too....

As well as that old house......with the screened in porch.....

And the swing......

Oh, but I still go there often....in my mind....

Love to all and Happy Springtime!

Pup