The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 27th- A few of my favorite things...

~A yellow horse chestnut leaflet caught by a green hedge on its way to the ground

~A yellow sugar maple leaf testing on the grass

~A yellow silver maple leaf that even hard on concrete looks golden

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Golden Catalpa leaves,...

~Golden Basswood leaves, and...

~Golden Maple leaves adding sunshine when the skies turn gray

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 5th- A few of my favorite things...
~Discovering the first golden dandelion in the yard,
~The goldeny star centers of yellow primroses, and
~The gold banded across the sky at sunset

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 20th- A few of my favorite things...
~Colors swirling across the clouds in a magnificent sunrise
~A row of trees that looks like a row of orange cotton candy on a stick
~A golden cloud stretching across the sky at sunset to finish the day

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 14th- A few of my favorite things...
~The fun of watching little golden chicks at the farm store
~The surprise of spying a leprechaun who left some gold laying around the library
~The delight of a golden sunset to paint the sky at the end of the day

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 10th- A few of my favorite things...
~Trying to smile even when the sun makes it hard
~Sunlight turning the tops of the trees into gold
~Golden streaks of highlighted clouds streaking across the sky

  

The girls dropped off the last of their lemonade stand money to

"In My Father's Kitchen"

...and made some artwork for them!

The Golden Hour

Cast gold everywhere...

Streaking across the sky...

Radiating from the west..

Filling the sky...

with golden splendor...

and oranges and blues that words...

barely capture.

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 31st- A few of my favorite things...
~Bright yellow and gold marigolds,
~One lone brown-eyed susan's bright yellow standing out against the green,
~And goldenrod with two happy bumblebees with full saddlebags...summer seamlessly melting into fall

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Dec 23rd- A few of my favorite things...
~Golden milkweed pods against the snow...
~Sending off fairies into the to the windblown landscape...
~And painting their shadows on the snow-packed ground.

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 22nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Golden willows against a snowy field
~Snow dusting a hillside, highlighting every ridge and tree
~Finishing a secret Advent present for the youngest girlie

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 17th- A few my favorite things...
~Golden maples,...
~Golden mums, and...
~Golden fans...that make me wonder if Rumpelstiltskin left spinning straw for prettier things....

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 4th- A few of my favorite things...
~Leaves turning to gold before our eyes making...
~A golden woods worthy of a fairy tale and... 
~A golden field and farm its own gilded painting

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~A raindrops moonlighting as a magnifiers
~A field of gold
~Running through fallen leaves just to hear that satisfying crunchy sound