Happy Thanksgiving

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 I am grateful for many things, and wish I remembered that fact more often. Today, Thanksgiving Day in the United States, I took a short walk around my neighborhood before heading off to visit with friends and family. There is a church tucked into my hilly, suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood and during my walk this morning, it's bells were ringing out quiet music. Despite the gray skies (which seem to be a permanent fixture these days), the music made for a lovely atmosphere.
Happy Thanksgiving, to friends and family present and absent.

Fuzzy moon

Twist & I ended our evening walk tonight with a gorgeous view of a full moon behind a naked tree. The orb was bathed by a fuzzy halo, with a jet contrail slashing underneath, all against an inky and velvety blue-black sky.

Thanksgiving is four days away, but I say thank you now anyway. For blue skies, for warm air and only a bit of a breeze to scatter the leaves from the oaks, the locusts, the chestnuts, the maples and magnolias and all the other trees that shade our neighborhood. For warm days at year's end. For everything good that we enjoy.

For family, friends, health and happiness.

Thank you!