30 Days of Gratitude - Day 30

This post wraps up my 30 Days of Gratitude postings. I have been changed this month. I have been more content, peaceful, and joyful as I've contemplated the beauty of nature. As the quote says

"It is not joy that makes us grateful, it's gratitude that makes us joyful."  ~ David Steindle-Rast

I am grateful as I wander this earth for the many beauties I see in nature and I am grateful that when I share them here, you visit. I am grateful for each one of you. Words can never express how you have touched my life in so many ways!  Thank you for sticking with my posting every day this month! Thank you for your comments that always make me smile! Thank you for being in my circle of friends!

"New beauty meets us at every step in all our wanderings."

~ John Muir

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 29

I am grateful for rain that refreshes the earth.

"Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head

With silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sin you a lullaby."

~ Langston Hughes

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 28

I am grateful for the land we have; our little piece of earth
 which I can walk across over and over again
and find something of nature that is amazing. 

"I spent the summer traveling;

I got halfway across my backyard."

~ Louis Agassiz

Give Thanks! 30 Days of Gratitude - Day 27

I am grateful for this special day set aside to give thanks for God's abundance.

"For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;
I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
How great are your works, Lord,
How profound your thoughts!"
Psalm 92:4-5

Wishing you a very special Thanksgiving.

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 26

I am grateful to have eyes that see the beauty of the world.

"The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world."

~Leonardo a Vinci

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 25

I am grateful for summer days.
It's a little harder for me to be grateful for summer,
but I try really hard.
I do love summer roses!

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses.

The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 24

I am grateful of the softness of spring.

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 23

I am grateful for winter, very grateful!

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose,

if there were not winter in your year!"

~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1861)

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 22

I am grateful for autumn.

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it...and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
~ George Elliott

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 21

I am grateful for early morning walks that lead to beautiful surprises.

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

~ Henry David Thoreau

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 20

I am grateful for the things I see as I look down.

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

~ Henry David thoreau

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 19

I am grateful for much light.

"There is a strong shadow where there is much light."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 18

I am grateful for the incredible beauty of the ordinary.

"Looking at everything as if for the first time

reveals the commonplace to be utterly incredible,

if only we can be alive to the newness of it."

~ Ruth Bernhard

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 17

I am grateful for colors and shapes.

"I found I could say things with color and shapes

that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Sunday Sundries and 30 Days of Gratitude - Day 16

I am grateful for the great lights.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

His love endures forever.

Give thanks to the God of gods.

His love endures forever.

Give thanks to the Lord of lords:

His love endures forever.

To him who alone does great wonders,

His love endures forever.

Who by his understanding made the heavens,

His love endures forever.

Who spread out the earth upon the waters,

His love endures forever.

Who made the great lights -

His love endures forever.

The sun to govern the day,

His love endures forever.

The moon and stars to govern the night;

His love endures forever.

Give thanks to the God of heaven.

His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:1-9, 26

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 15

I am grateful for the amazing ocean where my family vacationed this summer.

"Our memories of the ocean will linger on,

long after our footprints in the sand are gone.

~ Author Unknown

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 14, Friday Finds, and Be Still 52

I am grateful for gorgeous sunsets that end beautiful days!

"Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.

~ Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)

Today is also Friday which means Friday Finds hosted by Kim Klassen. This week as I was cleaning out that every growing folder of clipped recipes, I came across this little baking leaflet, New Fashioned Old-Fashioned Recipes sponsored by Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and published in 1953. Reading the forward in the leaflet gives the reason for the "new fashioned" recipes.

"To get extra light and tender, moist and delicious baked goods every time took real skill, grandmother's leavening was provided by Baking Soda and sour milk, with it's variable acidity. This new way calls for Baking Soda and vinegar. The use of this new method is dependable."

Since the Be Still 52 (also hosted by Kim) exercise this week used eggs and butter, I decided this leaflet would be my focus with eggs and butter are in the background. Since the leaflet was published the year I was born, I added my little tin cake pan that was part of a baking set I played with as a child.

Have a lovely weekend!

                                                      

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 13

I am grateful for nature's peace.

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop like Autumn leaves."

~ John Muir  (The Mountains of California)

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 12

I am grateful for all creatures great and small.

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

~Walt Whitman  (Song Of The Open Road)

30 Days of Gratitude - Day 11

On this Veteran's Day, I am grateful for all those

who serve and have served our country.

God bless each of you!

 I am also grateful for flowers that bloom in each season.

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth
are never alone or weary of life."

~ Rachel Carson