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| Everglades National Park. Photo credit: Don Bennett, Oct. 2023. |
Weather: Variety. I am grateful for all weather. Right now I am grateful for rain. The earth needs it!
Thankful: Today I dedicate this post to thankfulness. In the midst of pain and strife we all still have a lot to be thankful for. Today and this week I celebrate those things.
Family:
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| Taken this last summer, this is most of my family. |
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| Don and me with our daughters after seeing the Broadway touring production of SIX in Seattle. |
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| Our grandsons and their parents. June 2023, Whistler, BC. |
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| My siblings and I with Mom on her 94th birthday |
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| Getting ready for a football game with our cousins. All of us in the photo attended the University of Oregon. Missing Dad and Brad, also Duck fans, who live on inside us!. |
Friends: I don't often take photos when I am with people but sometimes I snag them when others do.
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| My college roommate joined us for a football game a few weeks ago. We win the prize for the most colorful fans, don't you think? |
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| Best friends. Crescent Lake. Mar. 2023. |
Pets:  |
| Carly's cats: Fred and George |
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| Rita's cats: Skimble and Sasha, all scrunched together in a box. |
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| Bingley |
Books:
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| The books I completed this past week and those I am currently reading. |
Our church: Don and I don't live very close to extended family. Our church has become our nearby family and our beloved community.
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| Our little church: Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church |
This new food discovery: Of course I love food. We all do. But I am wondering what took me 66+ years to discover caramelized spiced pears. They are delicious by themselves, as an ice cream topping, even as a hot cereal topping. I bet they would also work as a pie filling. If you come to my house for a meal, this is what I will be serving for dessert. (Link to recipe.)
Living in the Pacific Northwest: Where we have beautiful scenery, mountains and the ocean just an hour or two apart.  |
| Mount Rainier National Park, Paradise. Jan. 2021. Just a little over an hour from our home. |
National Parks: While I'm thinking about nature. Here's a shout out to our National Parks. We've visited seven of them this year. All were gorgeous and amazing. Such beauty.
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| A view of the giant sequoias from inside a dead tree. Kings Canyon National Park, California. May 2023. |
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| Magnificent giants. The biggest (not quite tallest) trees on earth. |
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| Sunrise from Dante's Point. Death Valley National Park, California. May 2023. |
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| Double Vision. Crescent Lake, Olympic National Park, Washington State. March 2023. |
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| Haleakala National Park. View of the volcano's crater. Feb. 2023. Maui, Hawaii. |
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| Petroglyphs at Hospital Rock, Sequoia National Park, California. May 2023. |
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| Out in Biscayne Bay National Park with Miami in the background. Oct, 2023. |
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| Everglades. Great Egret. Oct. 2023 |
Trip of a lifetime: to retrace the steps of our paternal grandfather who traveled from Panama to Ecuador and all the way down the Amazon River in 1923. (See my post about the trip here.)  |
| The five of us (and the boat driver) having a blast in the Panama Canal, Oct. 2023. |
Funnies: With a focus on Thanksgiving this week.
Except to thank you, dear reader, for sticking with me!
Happy Thanksgiving (USA) or fourth Thursday in November (the rest of the world.)
-Anne
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