The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 June 7th- A few of my favorite things...

~Eyes that see patterns in the swirls of pollen after the rain

~Hokusai’s "The Great Wave” in a puddle

~Impressionist textures worthy of Van Gogh

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 July 16th- A few of my favorite things...

~Bee "saddlebags" full of pollen

~A female monarch stopping for a sip

~Discovering a swallowtail enjoying the patch too

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 July 2nd- A few of my favorite things...

~A darner fly landing delicately on a leaf

~A ladybug waddling around a cluster of milkweed flowers

~A bee at work gathering pollen at the milkweed diner

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

Oct 21st- A few of my favorite things...
~Old brick paths that wind up a hill and out of sight
~Bees out looking for pollen as blossom season winds down
~Knowing the speed patrol is watching you like a hawk should you choose to speed

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 30th- A few of my favorite things...
~A happy bee coated in pollen trying to find some more
~A large web delicately strung between the tree and the ground awaiting its next catch
~The way sweet pea pods twist as they dry out

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

July 10th- A few of my favorite things...
~A bee with full saddle bags
~A Virginia Ctenucha moth stopping by milkweed for a drink
~Dividing lines in the fields

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