The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~When clouds and trees try try to match

~Stopping at the bridge to spy any fish swimming below

~Crepuscular rays seeming to direct your attention to what the clouds want to highlight from above

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Aug 2nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Finding a frog trying to hide by a rock
~Spying some tiny fish swimming around the rocks
~Finding a itty-bitty crayfish trying to look like a rock

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 30th- A few of my favorite things...
~Packing the bags for one excited girlie and her bunny Rumple
~Taking off on a new adventure in independence: summer camp!
~A girlie excited about bunk beds, swimming, and making new friends <3

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 31st- A few of my favorite things
~A well-made swimsuit that lasted through four girlies
~A well-loved garment worn out by the love of swimming
~Getting a new swimsuit to show off your swimmer's stripes

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 22nd- A few of my favorite things...
~A turkey trying to impress his girlfriend
~Liss taking off and swimming on her own!
~Turning a few simple ingredients into tomorrow's breakfast...Yum!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~One pair of goggles...
~That gave courage to one little girl who has been working hard...
~The confidence needed to pass her swim test today! Great Job Gwyn!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 23rd- A few of my favorite things...
~Having the pool at the Y all to yourself to swim 
~Diving countless times in a row with no one to watch out for
~A smiley face with a fedora: Here's smiling at you, kid!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 2nd- A few of my favorite things...
~One last trip to the beach to build a sandcastle 
~One last sunset over Adirondack Lake
~One last evening to do light pictures with Daddy

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Tables turned...Shaniah making me a treat for my lunch

~Clouds dappled across Onondaga Lake vista

~Two swans a swimming...just need five more by Christmas

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 22nd- A few of my favorite things...
~Cows grazing on the hillside
~The fun of swimming in a new swim cap
~Fancy folded napkins to spruce up a table

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Gwynnie officially becoming a swimmer as of this afternoon! Great job Gwyn!

~The fun of brown packing paper for kiddos...

~And kitties! He just has good taste in art---literally

Winslow's Second Camping Adventure: Day 6

Since Gwyn can't go into the water and neither can Winslow, 

they both decided to head for the parking lot...

...not to leave but to dig in the parking lot for

archaeology.

Yesterday they unearthed a few fragments of bone.

Gwyn wanted to go back and find more....

...and she did....lots of deer bone fragment.

Not quite a wooly mammoth, but very cool indeed!

Then together they found  a leaf miner 

at work on his next leaf design.

But the best part was finding a huge cache of blueberries!

Olaf is having fun with Winslow doing what frozen things 

do in summer!

Winslow kept Olaf company in guarding the berries...

...blueberry pancakes need special protection

Olaf got to observe the different kinds of moss around him...

...tiny little intricate worlds...

perfect of relaxing on and watching the sky!

The sky is always fun to watch!

Then it was back to the beach to see the new castle 

Thea and Moriah

built just for him!

Then he got to watch Shaniah perfect the back float!

He even got to try a flip-flop speedboat courtesy of Thea.

Then after lunch it was back at Abanakee for some fishing...

Winslow doesn't know what's better...

....catching a fish...

(That is pretty cool!)

Or sitting back...

and watching the fun the girlies are having at angling!

One is safe from having to take a fish off the hook with 

just watching.

The Lake Abanakee is so beautiful with loons calling to one another...

...a cauldron of turkey vultures circling in the sky...

....and military helicopters flying over.

But what he does know is that there is no better way to end the day than with 

chocolate chip brownies!