The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 30th- A few of my favorite things...

~The anticipation of lilacs to come

~The beauty of ornamental trees in monochrome

~The colors that precede blooming that give us a taste of what is to come

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 29th- A few of my favorite things...

~The setting sun casting shadows across the old canal bed

~The humblest of dandelions being beautiful wall flowers

~The loveliest of tulips getting ready to shine

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 28th- A few of my favorite things...

~A tree trunk that has earned its stripes

~Branches ladened with wild black cherry blossoms

~A canopy of white against a blue sky that is a welcomed sight after winter

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 27th- A few of my favorite things...

~Flowering ornamental pear blooming in pure white

~Saucer Magnolias blooming in white and pink

~Ornamental crabapple on the cusp of blooming in deep pink

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 26th- A few of my favorite things...

~Tiny bouquets of spring filling the branches

~Tiny bouquets carried in little fingers

~Tiny bouquets filling the canopy, harkening to Spring's presence all around

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 25th- A few of my favorite things...

~Learning to think through the tangle that is history

~Learning about a community through what they have left behind

~Learning about a Nation first-hand from the Haudenosaunee themselves

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 24th- A few of my favorite things...

~If you give a girlie a calligraphy pen set...

~She'll have to put it to the test

~So you'll quickly scribble a medieval manuscript text...and she begin to master it in minutes 

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 23rd- A few of my favorite things...

~Spying delicate blue egg shells along the towpath

~A bush that caught a maple tree's bouquet

~Tulips on the cusp of blossoming

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 22nd- A few of my favorite things...

~The greening of the willows across the landscape

~Bloodroot emerging from its winter slumber

~Watching a pond awaken with Spring

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 21st- A few of my favorite things...

~Japanese spurge waking up from a long winter's nap

~Weeping cherry blossoms bringing smiles in spite of their downcast moniker

~Lilac blossoms waiting in the wings for their cue on Spring's stage

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 20th- A few of my favorite things...

~Taking my Sweet Sixteen out for lunch

~Laughing while doing a bit of shopping

~A Boston Cream Pie Cake to a sweet milestone even better

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 19th- A few of my favorite things...

~Magazines that get you in the mood for road trip adventures

~Places to see, if only vicariously, through the window of a camera lens

~Cute farm animals along the journey

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 18th- A few of my favorite things...

~The quest to turn parts in a box to a ship with her sails

~The patience it takes to paint, glue, and rig together the ship

~The pride that goes into making a ship you've learned so much about along the way....drum roll, please...meet the Cutty Sark!

The Cutty Sark...

sailing with the flag of J Willis and Son on the main mast,

the British Nautical Flag,

and Letters that Spell out JKWS

(for the tea company who owned her)

on the halyard line...

and the numbers 2 on the foremast

and 2 on the mizzen mast for '22,

the year Thea built the model....Great Job Thea!