Thankful for digital photography and all the beautiful subjects there are to photograph. Through digital photography, I have found a hobby I thoroughly enjoy. I love looking for new objects to photograph and never get tired of it. I love being able to express myself on webshots, and share my photographs. Of course I am also thankful to webshots. Penelope is very thankful to digital photography and webshots. Otherwise she would be collecting dust on the dresser in the bedroom, by herself, sad and alone...Penelope is also thankful for all of her new friends, whom without, she might have been put back on the dresser...Penelope wants to say thank you for all of the kind words you have shared with her in her turmoils of the past challenges...

We adopted our remarkable young lady as a newborn. She is now almost 25, graduated from university summa cum laude in 2004 and later stood first in her Education class. She teaches French and is also working on a Master's in counseling. With KC, at 18 she won a national championship for the NS Appaloosa Youth team. But beyond her accomplishments, she is a warm and humble individual with a great sense of humor and zest for living. I'll be forever thankful for this great gift and grateful to the woman who made it all possible - Natalia's birthmom. They eventually reunited and during her latest graduation, both mothers sat side by side with tears in our eyes. We've become good friends - and Natalia now has a young half-brother whom she had never expected to meet!

Please view full size!! With each new day, I silently give thanks that I'm alive and able to participate in whatever lies ahead. First light through trees at dawn, mist rising from water, the awakening murmur of birdsong - all are precious to me.

All creatures are worthy of attention but I'm especially drawn to these smallest ones, that live so bravely and die so quietly, having fulfilled their brief purposes. I give thanks daily for their presence and their unique beauty. This butterfly is hardly exotic or rare, but it's typical of those I see around my garden. Its familiarity means a great deal. Please view full size.

from Missy and Marvin

Happy Turkey Day

In all the many past years, the wild turkey in the woods behind my house have been safe and trust me. I can sit on a stump in the woods and have them walk around me 3 feet away. If the White House can pardon a turkey then so can I. LOL. Happy Thanksgiving.

Fallen Harvest

One emptied bottle would also have been pathetic.

From our backyard garden in Pemberton, BC

Thanksgiving? Never heard of it!

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Love the breads, rolls, danish pastry, Maple Latte ... from the Red Hen Bakery & Cafe in Middlesex, VT. (#26443-2)

This is an Italian Turkey Dinner collage created in Piknik a site Webshots directed us too.

Flower arrangement for a family dinner

Fruit tart from our favcorite bakery

Flower arrangement for a family dinner

The perfect Thanksgiving dessert! Taken 10/24/11 at a food show.

Shot by the light of the candles and what little light came in the door. Canon T1i, 18-55 mm lens, F6.3, ISO 100, 8 second exposure on a tripod. The home was completed in 1804.

Wild turkey behind my house. Look at it larger and see my fence and house reflected in the eye.

Mt Wellington, behind Hobart is the central point of my view. Each day we look to the mountain to see what the day/weather will bring

Each day can bring weather changes across the mountain.

Each day the sun sets behind Mt Wellington with ever changing light & cloud & sunset displays

Bountiful Blessings

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.

"We'll make a beautiful pie."

Wooden fruit and a cross of an interesting gourd. Not really edible for Thanksgiving, but makes a nice center piece.

"Do you think we could become a pie for Thanksgiving?"

When I saw this drive with all the corn stalks, all I could think of was celebration of the harvest and autumn joy. In the USA Thanksgiving is known to be the time when people travel the most. It is the journey home, to visit family and celebrate together. taken at twilight in Historic Waterloo Village, Nov 2011.

Psalm 100: 1,2,4 ~~ 1. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing. 4. Enter into His gates with Thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. taken at twilight in Historic Waterloo Village, Nov 2011.

Thanksgiving, a time to thank God for all His blessings to us. Many of us in the USA spend the night before Thanksgiving at our churches, sharing stories of thankfulness in a candlelit sanctuary. taken at twilight in Historic Waterloo Village, Nov 2011.

I am so thankful for family and friends and my country and this wonderful journey through life around us. I thank God for each day.

I am thankful for our men and women around the world who risk their lives for their country.

Thankful to the beauty surrounding me living in RTP, North Carolina with Duke, NC State and UNC close by and their wonderful campuses of year round beauty.

My wedding anniversary, celebrated in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. View from Wengen.

My wedding anniversary, celebrated in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Staubbach Falls: free falling waters a mist of spray.

The friends I have...big and small

There is always something to be thankful for

Being alive and able to see all the beauty around

Birds at liberty, because they remind me of God. Canario da Terra, bird symbol of Brazil.

For all those that helped to make a better life

Pumpkin for pumpkin pie, a Thanksgiving tradition.

Photo taken 11-9-11.

My sister Regina's homemade caramel apple. Photo taken 11-12-11.

I'm out of here!!!!

Anyone know what day it is?

The bearded man in the tree!

We're each blessed with unique gifts, let us use those gifts in lifting one another.

Fresh from my garden. Thanks to Mother Nature for this gift.

Canadian Thanksgiving. The colors are real, that's the way pumpkins grew.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

May this flame serve to protect our soldiers and show them the way home,hopefully safely home, but if not then home to our heavenly father.

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving in North America had originated from a mix of European and Native traditions. Typically in Europe, festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to rejoice together after much hard work with the rest of the community. At the time, Native Americans had also celebrated the end of a harvest season.

I am thankful for the freedoms this country has given as well as the freedom God has given.

Thankful for freedom as a human and freedom in Spiritual too.

As our forefathers founded this country and gave thanks, we continue in the freedom of rights and freedom of worship to this day.

This photo was taken at the Flight 93 temporary memorial site. This "gift" was most likely left by someone who came to the site and wanted to leave something as a token of thanks to the heros. "Love" is spelled out in what appears to be bent golden "bubble gum" rings. Above that is a short, yet sincere "Thanks" to the heros for their sacrifices made. A simple symbol of modern day Thanksgiving.

Turkelton and Butterball didn't seem to mind the snow at all.

A bit of nature for our holiday kitchen table nature -- brought in from our yard and garden --

One of the best things about that big Thanksgiving dinner is all the leftover turkey and ham to make soups and casseroles with. Yum!