The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Small purply-pink rhododendron blossoms on a bush

~Mauvy-pink Lenten roses clustered on the ground

~Magenta-purple eastern redbud blossoms on the branch

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Hydrangea leaves turning shades of reddish purple

~An orangy-red serviceberry leaf on display on a hosta leaf

~Eastern redbud leaves turning shades of red showing its love for fall, not on its sleeves, but on its branches

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~The beauty of a strikingly large red hibiscus

~The surprise of a rose hip big enough to be a small apple

~The splash of color of a stressed-out eastern redbud turning color 

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 May 14th- A few of my favorite things...

~Tiny gingko leaf fans emerging from it branches

~Tiny heart leaves emerging from an eastern redbud

~Crimson King Norway Maple against a bright blue sky

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 6th- A few of my favorite things...
~Finding a star in a rose
~Finding a triangle in an iris
~Finding a heart in an eastern redbud

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 7th- A few of my favorite things...
~The brief time where white ornamental pear,
~Pink ornamental cherry, and
~The pinkish-purple blooms of eastern redbud share Spring's stage

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 11th- A few of my favorite things...
~A crap spider checking out coreopsis with me
~Catching a grasshopper between hops
~A tree that sends a love letter back to the gardener

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

July 7th- A few of my favorite things...
~Taking new friends to see the village garden and aqueduct over Skaneateles Creek
~A bee almost completely covered in pollen hard at work
~The distinctly red, heart-shaped leaf of the eastern redbud