The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Learning about someone through what they loved

~Reading about Regency fortune-hunter's task of saving her family

~A mystery about Santa ahead of the season

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 June 7th- A few of my favorite things...

~Eyes that see patterns in the swirls of pollen after the rain

~Hokusai’s "The Great Wave” in a puddle

~Impressionist textures worthy of Van Gogh

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Jan 2nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Studying "The Starry Night" with the girlies for the last few months
~Watching Gwyn's version go from blank page to starry sky
~Beginning another version of it that would make the Impressionists proud

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 8th- A few of my favorite things...

~Watching a girlie continue her work on "Starry Night"

~Watching her study details and notice things in the painting for the first time

~Watching how little strokes of chalk together begin to catch the essence of a night long ago

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Studying details of Starry Night on a rainy one with Gwyn

~Gwyn deciding to try her hand at Van Gogh...a work in progress

~Playing around with the chalks myself until I found a dog in a boat...I forgot how much I enjoy working with soft pastel chalks ☺️

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 16th- A few of my favorite things...
~Fining dewdrops and not frost on my strawberry plants this morning
~Taking my girlies downtown Syracuse to the fountain for the first time this spring
~Finding the sky painted Van Gogh-like on the back of a van