The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Last year's goldenrod in the afternoon sun

~Last year's grasses with their golden hues

~Last year's asters with their tiny pom-pops seeming to cheer on the warmer temps

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 21st- A few of my favorite things...

~Lilac leaves beginning their preamble into fall

~Milkweed leaves shedding their verdant summer coat

~Goldenrod like Midas' torch leading the greenery from one season to the next

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 3rd- A few of my favorite things...

~Goldenrod that seems to be beckoning bees to come

~The first of the white asters to bloom

~The pale blue of New York asters with a spider awaiting his dinner

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 9th- A few of my favorite things...

~Honey-brown color of ripening grasses

~The sunshiny yellow of goldenrod

~The many hues of green in lichen on a tree

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 7th- A few of my favorite things...
~The last of the daisy fleabane sounding its final notes
~The first of white asters almost ready to go on stage
~Goldenrod counting the bars steadily getting ready for it time to enter summer's symphony

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 25th- A few of my favorite things...
~White wild morning glories climbing up the goldenrod
~White puffy clouds scattered across a blue sky
~White silky dogwood flowers enticing bees to stick around for a while

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 6th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching bees hard at work on goldenrod
~Little fuzzy hairs coated with pollen
~Watching the bees carefully extract nectar from as many flowers as possible with each landing

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 27th- A few of my favorite things...
~Spying goldenrod galls in the garden
~The excitement of finding good windfall apples under the apple tree (good but a bit tart yet)
~Being ignored by a toad who was on bug duty

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 26th- A few of my favorite things...
~Coming home to tomatoes ripening on the vine,...
~A moth that just wanted a helping hand,...
~And the first of the goldenrod beginning to bloom

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 2nd- A few of my favorite things...
~A very hungry caterpillar munching on the goldenrod
~A very hungry bumble bee checking out the asters
~A very hungry spider which must not be very far away

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

July 15th- A few of my favorite things...
~A tiny woolly bear hiding under a goldenrod leaf
~Snow pea blossoms that look like prairie bonnets
~Strawberries that are still producing sweet berries after all the rain

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 8th- A few of my favorite things...
~Sunrises that seem to beckon your spirit to awaken with it
~A sparrow playing in a puddle between the storms
~A raindrop on the cusp of falling from the goldenrod

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 6th- A few of my favorite things...
~A ladybug like a bright red jewel on gold
~The first of the fall asters staking their claim
~Summer's yellows beginning to seamlessly melt into autumn's golds