It's that time of year again when you are compelled to look back over the past year, or even perhaps your entire life, and give thanks. It matters not what you are giving thanks for. It matters most that you feel compelled. That's the key. I think a lot about the folks in Paradise, California who have lost not only their homes, but their businesses, and their neighbors, and their sense of community. I think a lot about the folks in Mexico Beach, Florida, who dare I repeat it, lost not only their homes, but their businesses, and their neighbors, and their sense of community. Devastation can come in many forms. From battles and wars, and wind and tornadoes, and water and hurricanes. No matter how, it is still devastation. I pray for all of you, and all of the people who are struggling to build your life or rebuild your life for whatever reason. If it's drugs or illness or poverty or abuse. You deserve a better world. I pray you find it. THANKS!
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Monday, November 19, 2018
Giving Thanks
It's that time of year again when you are compelled to look back over the past year, or even perhaps your entire life, and give thanks. It matters not what you are giving thanks for. It matters most that you feel compelled. That's the key. I think a lot about the folks in Paradise, California who have lost not only their homes, but their businesses, and their neighbors, and their sense of community. I think a lot about the folks in Mexico Beach, Florida, who dare I repeat it, lost not only their homes, but their businesses, and their neighbors, and their sense of community. Devastation can come in many forms. From battles and wars, and wind and tornadoes, and water and hurricanes. No matter how, it is still devastation. I pray for all of you, and all of the people who are struggling to build your life or rebuild your life for whatever reason. If it's drugs or illness or poverty or abuse. You deserve a better world. I pray you find it. THANKS!
Friday, September 1, 2017
Fall Color Preview
Fall is my all time favorite season of the year, devoid of all the holiday hustle and bustle. Yet, it brings pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins. Apple cider and hayrides, and pumpkin patches and corn mazes, and haunted houses too. We decorate our humble abodes with pumpkins and squash, hay bales and corn stalks, and pine cones and acorns. Right in the midst of the fever pitch, comes Halloween with ghosts and goblins and hooligans too. That one special night brings us ugly witches with scary spells, hairy pirates with long black swords, and fire breathing dragons and demons and more.
Just when you think the season is nie, Thanksgiving arrives. The leaves have fallen, heaped high on the curb. The air has turned to a crispier chill. It's Thanksgiving Day with a feast to thrill. Turkey and dressing and casseroles galore. Pumpkin pie just so sweet and hot mugs of cider, what a treat. Fall, how I love thee.
These images are from Fall's past taken throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. From along the scenic byways, deep within the wildlife refuge and forest, and high up on the mountains. Fall will soon be upon us. ENJOY!
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Happy Thanksgiving America
Fall is quickly giving way to the cold temperatures and snowy days of Winter. Before Fall is a distant memory, I want to share an image I captured at Radnor Lake about a month ago when Fall's color was in full swing. It was a beautiful day with bright blue skies and warm temperatures. As I walked along the trail that hugged the lake shore, I stopped to snap this image of a beautiful yellow Maple tree in the bright sunshine.
And here again is another image I captured at Radnor Lake on a very, very warm day back in mid January of this year. On this outing, I walked the entire three miles around the lake. On the north side of the lake, a gaggle of Wild Turkeys meandered across the trail in front of me. They were not the least bit shy about the visitors on the trail. It was a treat to photograph them up close. They didn't linger long and all the while pecked at the forest floor. I figured it couldn't be a more appropriate time to share this pic than on Thanksgiving Eve. Before I leave you, I want to wish each and every one of you a Happy Thanksgiving and hope that you share a joyous day with family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving! ENJOY!
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
A special Thanksgiving photo I crafted from an image I captured in the Fall of 2012 of two Eastern Wild Turkeys roaming around in Mustatatuck National Wildlife Refuge in Seymour, Indiana. I wish everyone in the states a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I'll be spending it with my sister at her lovely home partaking of turkey and dressing and all of the fixings. I thank God for everyone in my life and all of the wonderful things God has afforded me. I'll also be thinking of everyone in the states who recently suffered losses from floods and tornadoes, and of the people in the Phillipines who are suffering from the horrific typhoon, and hoping and praying that everyone finds a place in their heart to thank God for life itself and cherish each moment we have with all of our loved ones for as long as we have them. Giving thanks. ENJOY!
PHOTOGRAPHER'S NOTE:
My new facebook photography page is open for business. You are welcome to LIKE my page at Carol Mattingly Photography. Just type that in the facebook search at the top of the page. This particular page is where I will be featuring images from an archive of 5,000+ nature and travel database. From Lake Superior National Seashore, Upper Peninsula, Michigan to beautiful Stonington Harbor, Deer Isle, Maine, to Cape Cod and Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and all of the beautiful places I have visited over the past decade.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I'll be spending it with my sister at her lovely home partaking of turkey and dressing and all of the fixings. I thank God for everyone in my life and all of the wonderful things God has afforded me. I'll also be thinking of everyone in the states who recently suffered losses from floods and tornadoes, and of the people in the Phillipines who are suffering from the horrific typhoon, and hoping and praying that everyone finds a place in their heart to thank God for life itself and cherish each moment we have with all of our loved ones for as long as we have them. Giving thanks. ENJOY!
PHOTOGRAPHER'S NOTE:
My new facebook photography page is open for business. You are welcome to LIKE my page at Carol Mattingly Photography. Just type that in the facebook search at the top of the page. This particular page is where I will be featuring images from an archive of 5,000+ nature and travel database. From Lake Superior National Seashore, Upper Peninsula, Michigan to beautiful Stonington Harbor, Deer Isle, Maine, to Cape Cod and Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and all of the beautiful places I have visited over the past decade.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
A Thanksgiving Story
Thanksgiving Day grows closer. And this is what Thanksgiving means to me. I hope you will indulge me as I share this story. My Thanksgiving brings with it a golden brown turkey with gravy and turkey giblets and sage filled dressing with onions and celery. Sweet potatoes hot out of the oven with a lightly toasted marshmallow topping and perhaps scattered walnuts will be served. Mashed potatoes and green beans and perhaps even a fruit salad too.
Least I forget dessert, no doubt the star will be pumpkin pie, warm out of the oven, wafting hints of pumpkin and cinnamon, filling the air. The mild hint of brown crusted dough and perhaps a simple dollop of whipped cream melt down the side as my fork cuts through.
Before dinner . . . before the turkey, before the dressing, comes the preparation. Our Thanksgiving table will be donned with a beautiful tablecloth of soft gold and brown hues and adorned with rustic red dinnerware. Each place setting carefully positioned around the Thanksgiving table. Dinner's guests will gather in the kitchen around the counter each filling their plates with delicious Thanksgiving fixings. Plates filled with heaping spoonfulls, each of us will retreat to the dining room and take our seat around the table. Thankful for this wonderful meal and yet another Thanksgiving, the chatter begins as every one partakes in this year's Thanksgiving feast. Stories of by gone days and wishes and hopes of what the coming Christmas season will bring fill the room.
Every Thanksgiving my younger sister spends countless hours cooking, baking, roasting, decorating and place setting. As each of us arrive at her door, we are graciously greeted and Thankgiving Day commences. Yet, I realize every year how much work and effort goes into this fabulous meal and, oftentimes, I wonder how she manages to do it all, with such perfection. This meal shared by family. This younger sister who wasn't supposed to be as the doctors informed my Mother that she was too weak to bear another child. I knew she was coming as my Mother had told me of her coming that day in the back yard of our small home in Louisville. I sat on the swing still as my Mother approached. She told me A baby would be born in a few short months. I was ready. Adults were anxious. Not sure if this baby or my Mother would survive. And yet the day came and my Mother did give birth. And I had a younger sister, and after many months of recovery, my Mother grew strong again. And so today I dedicate this Thanksgiving Story to my younger sister. ENJOY!
Least I forget dessert, no doubt the star will be pumpkin pie, warm out of the oven, wafting hints of pumpkin and cinnamon, filling the air. The mild hint of brown crusted dough and perhaps a simple dollop of whipped cream melt down the side as my fork cuts through.
Before dinner . . . before the turkey, before the dressing, comes the preparation. Our Thanksgiving table will be donned with a beautiful tablecloth of soft gold and brown hues and adorned with rustic red dinnerware. Each place setting carefully positioned around the Thanksgiving table. Dinner's guests will gather in the kitchen around the counter each filling their plates with delicious Thanksgiving fixings. Plates filled with heaping spoonfulls, each of us will retreat to the dining room and take our seat around the table. Thankful for this wonderful meal and yet another Thanksgiving, the chatter begins as every one partakes in this year's Thanksgiving feast. Stories of by gone days and wishes and hopes of what the coming Christmas season will bring fill the room.
Every Thanksgiving my younger sister spends countless hours cooking, baking, roasting, decorating and place setting. As each of us arrive at her door, we are graciously greeted and Thankgiving Day commences. Yet, I realize every year how much work and effort goes into this fabulous meal and, oftentimes, I wonder how she manages to do it all, with such perfection. This meal shared by family. This younger sister who wasn't supposed to be as the doctors informed my Mother that she was too weak to bear another child. I knew she was coming as my Mother had told me of her coming that day in the back yard of our small home in Louisville. I sat on the swing still as my Mother approached. She told me A baby would be born in a few short months. I was ready. Adults were anxious. Not sure if this baby or my Mother would survive. And yet the day came and my Mother did give birth. And I had a younger sister, and after many months of recovery, my Mother grew strong again. And so today I dedicate this Thanksgiving Story to my younger sister. ENJOY!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving to All!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my friends and followers and family. I wish for you this day of thanks a wonderful day of food and fellowship with your family and friends. I especially give thanks for Mother Nature, who without her, I wouldn't have such wonderful, wonderful memories of forests and rivers and parks and mountains and all of her creatures, great and small. And, I especially am grateful to all of my wonderful blogging friends for all of your support throughout this past year, and all of the uplifting comments you have left for me to enjoy. Thank You! And thanks also to all the many, many visitors who passed by my blog, as I arrive at 20,000 pageviews today, this Thanksgiving Day. Speaking of creatures small, do you see the smallest of creatures in this image? That is what is so great about Mother Nature, she forces us to look closely to see all of her bounties. ENJOY!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Ode to Thanksgiving!
'Twas the night before Thanksgiving,
and all through the house,
just one carcass was thawing,
Tom turkey no doubt.
The table I set,
with great comfort and care,
in hopes that Tom turkey,
it surely would bear.
And I in my apron,
and you holding forks,
will soon sit down,
for a dinner of thanks.
From my tablescape to your tablescape, I wish you a wonderful day tomorrow with your family, friends and everyone you share this holiday with. I give thanks this year for my health, my wealth and my family. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! Now get to cooking. ENJOY!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a quick note to all of my followers and friends and folks just blogging by. Happy Thanksgiving to All! Don't eat too much turkey this week. ENJOY!
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