The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Colorful threads mixed with...

~A plain unbleached muslin combined with...

~An imagination that saw (and can freehand) a cow that was hiding in there somewhere...picture in progress....

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 13th- A few of my favorite things...
~Discovering the baby calf enjoys a good under-the-chin scratch
~A tree cricket checking out his own shadow
~The light reflected from AXA Towers creating its own dancing light show on an unassuming canvas

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~Sunshine for brewing tea
~A Canada Goose family out for an evening stroll
~Holstein silhouettes at sunset on the hillside

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 1st- A few of my favorite things...
~A church that seems to be helping direct traffic
~An antenna that seems to ready to launch to the moon
~Cows that seem oblivious to the attention the sun is bestowing upon them

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 15th- A few of my favorite things...
~Thea's pure joy over getting to pet a Flemish giant rabbit
~A cow that thinks the world of milk
~A moonlit path across the water

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 13th- A few of my favorite things...
~A cow that comes over to greet you in the morning
~A hawk that spirals overhead to watch you
~The last of the Rose of Sharon blooming, connecting summer into fall

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 18th- A few of my favorite things...
~Seeing a patriotic cow...
~Watching a clever cow...
~And petting a baby cow at Hourigan's Dairy Farm in Elbridge with the girlies

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 21st- A few of my favorite things...
~A weather vane with books and an ink pen (although it does kinda look like a high-heeled shoe)
~A weather vane with a cow (perhaps black angus) for a new business owned by dairy farmers
~A weather vane with a shiny golden eagle that gleams on a gray day

Weather vane atop Cato-Meridian Middle School

Weather vane atop Bailiwick in Elbridge, NY

Weather vane atop an Italianate house in Jordan NY

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 15th- A few of my favorite things...
~The last of the leaves on the rose bushes
~A cow enjoying the pasture
~Watching the waxing crescent moon descend behind a steeple