The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 15th- A few of my favorite things...

~An evening walk over to watch the sleeping festival grounds begin to awaken

~Seeing the upcoming fun lit against the evening sky

~Neighbors volunteering from set-up to tear-down to make the Jordan Fall Festival a success for the community

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~An evening walk on the cusp of spring and finding a predatory driving beetle looking for a new pond

~A frog and a toad enjoying the evening's warm pavement

~Large earthworms peeking out at the surface after the day's rain to take a night excursion through the grass

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~One leaf fallen to the ground adding color on a dark night

~A group of leaves adding their fall woodsy scent to our evening walk

~A perfect level of cruchability to add ambiance while strolling on a lovely fall evening

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 17th- A few of my favorite things...

~A red dot of a ladybug wandering, looking for a meal on the underside of a leaf

~A red leaf in the creek caught along its flow downstream

~Spying Red hearts in a row on painted rock along our evening walk

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 24th- A few of my favorite things...
~An evening walk in which we find a small raptor spying us,...
~A cottontail trying to be as inconspicuous as possible,...
~And the scent of linden trees beginning to fill the air under the watchful eye of an exquisite crescent moon

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 31st- A few of my favorite things...
~An evening walk before curfew to see what has begun to bloom and leaf out
~Fixing a Memorial Day oversight due to extenuating circumstances
~Remembering all that is still good in this world

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 29th- A few of my favorite things...
~Finding treasures skipping about the canal-- a skipper butterfly
~Spying treasures along the evening walk-- a robin's egg and a partly eaten squirrel snack
~Spotting someone else finding treasures, too-- a carpenter bee out for one last load of gold before dark

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 11th- A few of my favorite things...
~An evening walk where little hands find perfectly curled crunchy leaves that fell with a recent storm
~Evidence no matter how small of the changing seasons
~With big fans of autumn finding smaller ones

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 14th- A few of my favorite things...
~Noticing the flowers along our evening walk
~Greeting a neighbor or two along the way
~The many shades of green...and a patch or two of blue that came out after the rain