The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 30th- A few of my favorite things...
~New boots to get ready for leaf crunching season
~Pumpkins that decide to grow in trees for a better view
~Autumn bouquets that are an explosion of seasonal color

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 29th- A few of my favorite things...
~A blue jay feather topping of a fairy house for Autumn fairies as they make their rounds
~Blue asiatic dayflower, a striking true blue among flowers
~Skies so deep blue their reflections seem to stretch the skies into the building

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~Silky dogwood blossoming while its leaves turn burgundy red 
~The scent of just-picked Cortland apples filing the porch
~Hanging out with a Seven Spotted Ladybug in the garden

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 27th- A few of my favorite things...
~People who feed your love of maps
~Seeing snapshots on a time gone by
~Finding some scholar's 100 year old homework enclosed within the pages

The gift of a "new" atlas from my brother :-)

A 1907 snapshot of the world, atlas style!

Seeing the world through the wonder 

that the first owners of this atlas saw it...

King Tut's tomb wouldn't be found for another 15 more years!

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire 

was in 1906 was news hot off the press

Photos of the devastation must have been heartbreaking to see

Then, neatly tucked with in the pages 

is several pieces of someone's geography homework 

from 1918...

the scholar had yet to see the Armistice 

that would happen later that year. 

I can picture this book being opened many times 

along with the newspaper 

trying to figure out where 

all the battles in the newspaper occurred.

Maps...

a snapshot on geography, politics, history and time..

always something to discover...

in 1907...

in 1918...

and in 2018 :-)

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 26th- A few of my favorite things...
~A little imagination...
~And a few tools of the trade...
~And the Farmer got a Wife...and the Port Byron Library has lots puppets for their Storytime...great job girlies!!!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 25th- A few of my favorite things...
~New fun scented crayons, color pencils, and markers...
~That make learning about ancient myths...
~Just a bit more fun

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 24th- A few of my favorite things...
~Being inspired by a book you read camping to take a tea box, then...
~Add items you found around the woods and around home...
~To create a house fit for little fairies <3 

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 23rd- A few of my favorite things...
~A map to an afternoon of fun with Daddy in Clyde, NY...
~Teaching them the fun of being "model" citizens
~And staying on the right track