1. Yummy Muscadine Barbecue Wings I made the other night.
2. Walking into PetSmart and seeing this Halloween costume display for doggies.
Seriously?
3. Our sense of Sound. What are you hearing right now? Pause for a second and be mindful of all the sounds in your experience at this moment. Even if some of those sounds are perhaps a bit annoying (hello neighborhood dog that will not stop barking), still, what a blessing to be able to hear!
4. Being mesmerized by more than 10,000 pumpkins (!) on display on a recent trip to the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
(P.S. I asked one of the garden workers what would happen to all of the pumpkins when they were removed. She told me they would be made into mulch for the garden. I felt better after that.)
5. This quirky drawing of a goat.
May something quirky give you a bit of happiness this weekend!
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.
NealEnJoy 