The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Stepping back in time for a few hours

~Sharing my love of history with bicyclists and walkers along the Towpath

~From horseshoes to pottery to people: each piece with a story of it own to tell

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

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

~Using a steeple to tell the direction of the snow

~Snow highlighting the grooves on a tree

~Leaves and flowers trying on a light coat of snow on for size

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 31st- A few of my favorite things...
~A box full of Circus Model surprises from a friend
~An afternoon spent bringing part of the paper circus to life
~Inviting the travelling performers to join us for some tea...oh the stories they could tell!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~Spying a sun halo gracing the sky
~Being a gnomon to tell the time
~Feeling the rush of air as CSX 3033 speeds by

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 29th- A few of my favorite things...
~When a book from the children's section just won't do
~Figuring out maps and what they can tell us
~Figuring out the past and how we once lived

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Jan 9th- A few of my favorite things...
~The creative process of gathering items from years past...
~And finding just the right arrangement...
~To tell a story without words

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Jan 3rd- A few of my favorite things...
~A line up of Nutcrackers that seem to have a hidden story behind them that when everyone goes home...
~The Oliver Hardy Hockey player seems to have had an impact...
~On a scepterless King, an aggravated Cook, and a worried Soldier who has already lost his nose due to hockey antics

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~A little helper in the berry patch
~An abundant harvest of black cap raspberries this year
~Listening to the littlest tell of her adventures while she fills her bowl

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

May 14th- A few of my favorite things...
~A little girl who rushes in and asks for a microscope and a field guide...
~Who diligently studies the leaves she has found, amazed at her finds, then...
~Comparing them to a field guide, runs back outside to tell one of big sister's friends that the tree was a      buckthorn and she could prove it! A girl after her mother's own heart