Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2013

For Each New Morning With Its Light

For each new morning with its light, 





For rest and shelter of the night, 






For health and food, for love and friends, 






For everything Thy goodness sends. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson






I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving!


I'm grateful for a day focused on family and giving thanks for 

my blessings...and for the eyes and heart to realize the 

simplest things are often the greatest blessings. 


What are you grateful for?

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Day 23: Today I'm grateful for...

Each day of November, I've been posting something I'm grateful for on Facebook. 
I've already said "my morning walks" so today I thought I'd elaborate.

Today I'm grateful for...

...rain and raindrops...




...morning walks with my puppies and clear pools in too-long-dry creek beds...



...autumn colors...


...and my home in the Hollow.



"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "thank you?" " 

~William A. Ward


Wednesday, November 21, 2012

On Thanksgiving Eve Morning...

...I took a walk through the Hollow,
with Tom 
and goofy puppies.



(Daisy added for privacy!)



Old wooden steps led up, up, up to the frame of an abandoned deer blind.




Walking where others haven't in a long while...




...but discovering some who call it home. 



Beauty has many seasons.



A party of palms on the edge of a dry pond.



Spring and summer blooms are hanging on, grateful for the mild temperatures.



The colors of autumn, taking over.


An old dreamcatcher, perhaps?



Sunlight playing with the leaves.


We saw the web before we felt it, thank goodness!



While I focused on these leaves...



...Max decided to rest. 
He knows when I start snapping it could be awhile before we move on.



More pretty leaves.



...and steadfast blooms. 



 And then on toward home.
Hope you enjoyed the walk!

And I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!



The unthankful heart discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!

~ Henry Ward Beecher


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