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?

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

Frisky!

Temperatures have dropped. 

The sky is clear...the the most perfect blue. 

All of the Hollow shimmers in golden sunlight. 

Autumn is here, along with the its energizing magic that turns old dogs back into puppies, despite their wobbly legs and achy hips.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, 

but he will make a fool of himself too.  

~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

The Golden Hour

Within minutes of arriving back home last week

before suitcases were even unpacked,

I was back out the door

heading down my dirt road with my puppies

reveling 

 in the golden light 

just before sunset.

I miss my Hollow 

(and Tom and my puppies, of course) 

when I'm away.

Do you blame me?



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From a Week in a Texas Autumn

There are times in your life when something's gotta give.

Unfortunately, 

that something for me recently

has been

my morning walk.

But this week, hallelujah, I slipped back into the old routine.

I love and need these morning walks.

It's been a week of beautiful skies, frisky dogs, frosty mornings, glorious light, hunting dogs, spring-like mornings, confused plants, creepy-crawlies, and splashes of autumn leaves.

I kinda went crazy with my camera.

I'll be nice and only share a few of my favorites...

Hope you had a great week! 

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

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and the very last

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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Thanks for the Post of the Week, Hilary!!