The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 28th- A few of my favorite things...

~Following the soaring turkey vultures toward the setting sun

~A small murmur of starlings riding the gusts just for fun

~The treat of a dramatic light and cloud show to end the day 

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Mar 13th- A few of my favorite things...

~Walking outside to see that the Turkey Vultures have returned, soaring high among the clouds

~A large flock of geese traversing a sky dappled with pink clouds

~Watching the light pillar at sunset...as if it too wanted to reach out to the clouds one last time

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

June 27th- A few of my favorite things...
~Raindrops falling on a clouds...in a puddle
~A turkey vulture taking advantage of updrafts between storms
~The gift of a wallet just the perfect size to carry

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Apr 15th- A few of my favorite things...
~Playground shadows that look like a board game
~Gossamer web strung between a daffodil and its leaf
~Finding cauldron of vultures soaring above my old neighborhood and finding another group soaring above my current home

Winslow's Second Camping Adventure: Day 2

Winslow started the day by supervising the girlies tidying up....

...then on to helping the girlies on their mushroom hunt...

...not far into the journey they found this one...

(Winslow liked finding someone smaller than him)

...ansd they found some turkey tail mushroom on an old stump.

This reminded Winslow about one of his favorite activities.

So he hopped in the car...

...and got this years DEC Jr Naturalist book to fill out 

and earn a patch while camping.

The hot temperatures also reminded Winslow that we needed 

to get some firewood.

So after paying for our wood...

Winslow tried to decide which squares of wood to supervise loading into the car.

Winslow even tried to play "Where's Winslow".

After much thought, he picked out three squares and we were on our way...

once we did all the loading work.

It was too hot for a campfire tonight,

 so Winslow and the gang headed over to the headwaters of the Hudson River

by Lake Abanakee.

Winslow had a Titanic moment.

Then he explored the shoreline with the girlies.

The water was so still there in the whirlpool area where white water rafters put in, 

that he began seeing double.

But then he thought his stunt double in the water looked pretty goofy.

Thea was so excited that Winslow found another mushroom.

Winslow also like watching the swirly patterns on the water's surface.

With all of the recent rain, mushrooms were everywhere...

...they found one...

after another to complete their mushroom hunting for the day.

It's hard to believe that the Hudson River starts off so small.

Once we left...Winslow noticed LOTS of turkey vultures...

...just hanging out by the transfer station.

He started his day off with turkey tail mushrooms 

and

ended it with turkey vultures...

...now he's hungry for just plain turkey :-)

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

July 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching the girlies explore the woods
~Watching the headwaters of the Hudson River flow serenely by
~Finding more than 30 turkey vultures perched together...so many they didn't all fit in one pic!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 15th- A few of my favorite things
~Discovering thousands of red-wing blackbirds have returned from their winter migration
~The amazing wingspan of a turkey vulture gliding on the wind
~Watching the ringed-bill gull and the turkey vulture soaring together when Inigo's words come to mind "I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using?" "Inconceivable!" wink emoticon Princess Bride is always quotable grin emoticon