The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 25th- A few of my favorite things...
~Opera made fun by the Opera Ithaca Company
~An October picnic in Fayette Park
~The splendor of sycamore trees against a blue sky

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 27th- A few of my favorite things...
~A collage of silver maple leaves
~Discovering an old nest in a fallen tree
~Wild grape adding deep blue to a gray day

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 21st- A few of my favorite things...
~Sidewalks paved in gold
~A leaf that just wasn't ready to leave the tree yet
~Rains that have brought the creeks up to a normal level for the first time in 6 months

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 18th- A few of my favorite things...

~A beautifully terracotta tiled roof with flecks of color reminiscent of the season

~A bright orange bush making one last bold statement for the year

~Coming around a curve in a gray shadow and out into riotous color...(no tornado or house falling required)

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 17th- A few of my favorite things...
~Montezuma in fall...where geese land colored waters
~An eagle with a 21ft wingspan
~Happening upon an owl at dusk

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 5th- A few of my favorite things...
~Golden wisteria,
~Golden dandelions, and
~Golden willows bedecking the late autumn landscape

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 31st- A few of my favorite things...
~The joy of finding a cool rock in the creek
~Finding the last of the woolly bears finding a place to hibernate through the winter
~Finding the promise of spring in autumn's color show

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 17th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching two seasons collide
~Watching the farmer plant his winter wheat
~Having had lovely fall weather for bringing in the crops

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 15th- A few of my favorite things
~Finding fall foliage framed in the windows
~Being able to help a woman find her necklace lost in the leaf pile
~Soaking in the fall beauty at Clark Reservation

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~The last few colorful leaves on my dying red maple...how I will miss it
~The bronze and gold leaves of the ash trees
~Farm fields waiting patiently for harvesting