The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 July 12th- A few of my favorite things...

~When clouds and trees try try to match

~Stopping at the bridge to spy any fish swimming below

~Crepuscular rays seeming to direct your attention to what the clouds want to highlight from above

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~A squirrel waiting for the next picnic

~A squirrel trying to remember where he stored his food

~A squirrel stopping for a snack

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Feb 9th- A few of my favorite things...
~Stopping to take in how beautiful our village is at dawn's early light
~Stopping to watch a guy have fun running his RC car up and down and around the snowbanks
~Stopping to enjoy the beauty of snow and ice that has painted the yard in sparkles

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 13th- A few of my favorite things...

~Stopping by Fort Brewerton and the Oliver Stevens Block House when their are soldiers afoot,...

~Artifacts left by many cultures on the site on display,...

~And history that is carefully stitched together

THe Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 24th- A few of my favorite things...
~Canada geese stopping by for a snack in the harvested field
~An Oldwife Underwing Moth hiding in plain sight
~The golden light of sunset coloring the tops of the still-green trees into a taste of what is to come

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

July 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~Finding that the wild milkweed patch along the canal hides a secret cache of monarch eggs
~Discovering a small monarch caterpillar eating his lunch
~Watching a monarch butterfly fluttering around and stopping occasionally for a snack

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 29th- A few of my favorite things...
~Saying goodbye to the horses at camp until next year
~Stopping by the SRAC museum in Waverly, NY to explore the finds of amateur and professional archaeologists
~Building a mini-cairn next to someone's larger one at a Waverly Glen Falls

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~A small stone that seems to have called his pebble friends for a meeting
~Being warned by a pair of geese gleaning in the fields at sunset
~Stopping by to watch the sun peek around the bend of the old canal

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 25th- A few of my favorite things...
~Perfect weather for stopping at a playground
~Clouds that look like claw marks in the sky
~The glint of the evening sun on the railroad tracks