My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts
1. Sunset’s beauty. It never gets old.
2. Key Lime Pie.
3. Feeling good physically. What a blessing it is when it happens.
4. Benny insisting on resting atop a bunch of plastic grocery bags.
5. The necessity of flowers.
Joyful last weekend of August to you!
And that’s My Saturday Evening Post.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts
1.Seeing Robert.
2. My blackberry, raspberry and whipped cream waffles for breakfast.
3. Having an appetite (or appetites).
4. Lighting a candle and saying a prayer at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine the other day. For peace of heart for us all.
And what colorfully beautiful Spanish architecture and artwork.
5. Reminding myself to embrace the beauty and promise of each new morning .
Wishing you a promising weekend.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts
1. For some reason, my little half & half dribbling made me smile this morning at the coolest little coffee shop in St. Augustine near where we are staying in Florida.
2. Keeping an inviting bowl of fruits and vegetables on the kitchen island. To eat, yes, but also just to … see.
3. The summer sunshine.
4. Having 17 year-old Benny with us on our longer August stay at South Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
5. Being able to smile, even on a bad hair day.
May you have a Smile-Worthy Weekend ahead.
Gathering flowers in the community garden at Vilano Beach Florida.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Discovering this very cool observation tower on Skidaway Island near Savannah.
2. Wildlife to observe.
3. Being able to hear. What a blessing.
4. Cinnamon rolls for breakfast!
5. Spices
Robert and I spent last week house- and dog-sitting for daughter Amy at their place on Savannah’s Skidaway Island.
Perhaps the Greatest Joy of visiting Skidaway (other than grandchildren, of course) is the wide variety of wildlife that abounds at nearly every turn.
White-tailed deer run around as if they own the island (which of course, they actually do, or used to).
Raccoons, marsh rabbits, gray foxes, and opossums are common.
Dolphins and river otters.
A variety of native turtles, frogs, and non-venomous snakes are also present.
But by far, the true Attention Grabber on the island in many of the lagoons and waterways is the omnipresent American Alligator.
Robert and I saw four others (!) in this same pond on this day.
You simply learn to give alligators their space.
They are not inherently aggressive, naturally fearing humans and usually prefer to retreat or swim away when approached. The problem comes when humans illegally feed alligators. They learn to associate people with food and may aggressively approach them.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. For some reason this hole in an old piece of wood at the top of a wire fence at a local farm made me smile a bit and think.
Sometimes it’s what’s NOT there that somehow wields its way to the center of attention.
2. Sticking to that line of thinking, one morning this week. I woke up, looked at our breakfast table and saw that Robert had cleaned up a bit a little flower arrangement that was moving past its prime.
It made me smile again, perhaps with a melancholic edge, appreciating the beauty that was, and in a way, still is.
That little morning moment also made me think of Frost’s oh-so-truthful poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Note to self: Enjoy it all while I still can.
3. Accidental photographs that somehow express a surprising hint of beauty.
4. Salt and pepper.
5. Robert and Benny.
May you have Plenty to Love this weekend.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. These incredible crab legs at the Tin Fin seafood restaurant near where we are staying for the week in Effingham County GA.
I just opted for a pound, but HR got the “All You Can Eat” Tuesday night deal.
2. Making new friends at Hunter Cattle Company near Statesboro GA.
Especially a friendly cow I named Betsy.
Here’s Betsy and HR co-starring in a little independent film I produced and directed, Good Moo Hunting.
3. Enjoying our last fire (probably) of the season at the farmhouse in southeast Georgia where we are staying this week.
4. The amazing ability to remember.
5. Sensational cinnamon rolls from Ally’s Bakery in Rincon GA.
May you roll joyfully this weekend.
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