1. This lovely little harbinger of serenity who peacefully greets me each time I walk into our bathroom.
No, no, not the patriotic wise owl on the top shelf. Look closer, down in the lower left.
In light and shadow, she welcomes me.
(But I’m trying to get her a better working environment.)
2. My beautifully shirted HR and this amazing cinnamon roll we had the other morning at a new restaurant near us, The Municipal Bar, inside a new hotel, The Municipal, which is a gorgeous revamp of an old city building where we used to pay our water bill. TMI?
3. The ability to taste. Isn’t that sense just absolutely amazing?!
4. Experiencing the Fall season, even inside the house. Here’s our pretty mature fiddle leaf fig.
She has been shedding a few leaves lately—but then again, haven’t we all?
For some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to simply throw the leaves away.
So I looked around and plopped them in our little wall vase.
And actually found them quite beautiful in their color-changing Autumnal phase.
Look at the chlorophyll saying goodbye.
Robert (so very helpfully) reminded me recently that I too am in my Fall/Autumn Phase.
After I started speaking to him again, I thought about it and decided to hope that my chlorophyll stays bright and green for a while longer.
5. Getting successfully through an intracept procedure earlier this week (a type of back surgery, which hopefully will help my lower back pain).
I got to keep the hat. 
Is it legal for HR to take photos in a surgery center? I would have yelled at him, but I was a bit out of it.
(More about THAT entire experience in an upcoming post.)
2. Beginning to see a few (emphasis on “few”) early indications of Approaching Autumn here in Savannah.
3. The simply amazing Ability to Walk! What a blessing. The next time you walk today (if you can), shout (or think loudly), “Look at me! I am WALKING!”
4. The beautiful opposite of Happy Bringer #1 above …
1. To show you (yet again) that it doesn’t take very much to make me happy, I was thrilled (maybe with a small “t” but still thrilled) seeing these neat “tissues don’t have to be in a rectangular or square box” Kleenex in the bathroom at my therapist’s office. TMI?
2. Sort of related (at least in color) to Happiness Bringer #1 above, the first day of Autumn 2025 is one month from today!
Of course it’s 90° with a Real Feel near 100 today in Savannah, but at least we can dream/remember …
3. Robert and I took part in the Savannah Photo Club’s Third Sunday Photo Walk last Sunday morn. Such fun!
There we are, in the middle of the frame, a bit blurry.
For two hours we traversed around Savannah’s Historic District, snapping pictures left and right.
We plan to make the Savannah Photo Walk part of our monthly agenda.
4. After the photo walk, we toured the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art display, A Gathering of Bells.
Upon entry, you were giving a white glove for your dominant hand, so that you could ring the clappers in the bells!
HR, clappering away.
“As museum visitors strike the clapper against the shell, their action becomes participation and metaphor simultaneously: we hear the ringing bell vibrate and sense how our gestures reverberate outward toward others.”
Such a unique sculpture display/experience.
5. The pleasure of a simple little nap.
Benny on my Belly
Make your weekend ahead have some Simple Little Pleasures.
“Clafoutis is a French dessert made with fruit covered in a batter that consists of eggs, sugar, milk, and flour. It’s a thick custard that is similar to flan in texture. It is usually made with cherries, but other fruits can be used as well.” prettysimplesweet.com
Oh my goodness! It was wonderful.
We invited Tillamook strawberry ice cream to join us for breakfast. 
2. Grandson Daniel, singing “Come What May” (from Moulin Rouge) with his girlfriend Amalie at a recent concert. Daniel’s last Savannah performance before his freshman year of college.
3. Realizing that every minute is a new beginning.
4. HR and purple.
5. Seeing this on my walk this morning. And realizing that it is a truth that life finds a way.
Even if we are not always happy about that outcome.
May you be happy about the outcome of this weekend ahead!
NealEnJoy 