Today's 100 Gratitudes

I am grateful:

1. Flowers
2. Trees
3. Shrubs
4. Bushes
5. Wildflowers
6. Canopy of leaves
7. Leaves changing color in fall
8. Spring buds on the trees!
9. Blossoms
10. Capers, which are buds
11. Artichokes
12. Corn
13. Potatoes
14. Sweet potatoes
15. Peas
16. Green beans
17. Asparagus
18. Spinach
19. Swiss chard
20. Dandelion greens
21. Kale
22. Collards
23. Iceburg lettuce
24. Raddichio
25. Romaine
26. Butter leaf
27. Homegrown
28. Field greens
29. Tomatoes
30. Peaches
31. Cantelope
32. Plums
33. Cherries
34. Pears
35. Apples
36. Grapefruit
37. Oranges
38. Bananas
39. Gala apples
40. Lady something apples
41. Honey crisp apples
42. Banana apples
43. Raspberries
44. Strawberries
45. Bluebeerries
46. Blackberries
47. Boisonberries
48. Green seedless grapes
49. Red seedless grapes
50. Wine, a little, sometimes
51. Grape juice, Welch’s light
52. Cranberry juice, especially when urinary tract infection
53. Peppers, especially fried and at the beach
54. Ezekial bread
55. Mushrooms. I don’t eat them, but so many people do, and they are apparently nutritious
56. Grains
57. Quinoa
58. Brown rice
59. Barley
60. Bulgar
61. Mrs. Ertas, who makes that wonderful bulgar dish for me
62. Cactus
63. Pine trees
64. All evergeens
65. Christmas trees we’ve had over the years
66. Oak trees
67. Linden trees
68. Ginko trees
69. Birch trees
70. Maple trees
71. Rosewood trees
72. Mahogany trees
73. Beech trees
74. Leaves against the sky
75. How I used to lay outside nad look at the branches and leaves against the sky
76. That I can again
77. Can go to a meeting this morning if I want to
78. Chance this weekend to see: my mother even twice, John, Stephanie, Oxana
79. Diana – a celebration in Philly in Oct – Maybe I’ll go to it
80. Botanical Gardens. In many ways. More details later.
81. Grass
82. Picking and playing with the blades of grass at Uncle Charlie’s as a little girl
83. Daisy “salads” with Joanie as a little girl
84. Rocks
85. My rock collection as a very little girl
86. Rocks smoothed by the water at the beach
87. River rocks
88. The rocks in my living room lamp
89. Rocks all around outside at school
90. Turkeys on the school grounds many Septembers
91. Deer
92. Deer at school
93. Deer at the Poconos
94. Deer right outside our room that year at the Poconos
95. Barbados
96. The ocean
97. The Pacific, in California
98. Glen Island growing up
99. Orchard Beach with J
100. Swimming