Friday Foto Friends - Another Golden Morning

Good Morning Dear Friday Foto Friends!  It's another "golden morning" here...so much beauty to enjoy.  Can you believe it is November already?  I am in disbelief...where has this year gone? Where has this week gone?  For some reason it has just buzzed right past me and I haven't really caught my breath yet from last week! Hoping to get caught up on my visits to you all out there in "blogland".  I am sorry to be so far behind.

Speaking again of a "golden morning"....Look at these patches of goldenrod pointing the way as we walk down the road...

 I always think of them as pointing fingers...saying "Go that way!"  or, perhaps they are telling us that "they went thataway"   Whichever, they make me smile.  It's fun to see wildflowers with some real "personality".

Speaking of "they went thataway":  What a wonderful surprise to step around the bend and find this deer family out for their morning stroll together...

 As they spotted me they started all moving down around the fences, along the waterfront,

 Well, they were waiting for some others to come get caught up with them...either that, or they heard the neighbor's rooster crowing over that direction...

 Off they go...

As they made the loop around the houses along the lake front, they eventually made it back to the road where they cross over back into the woods...one at a time until they were all gathered back together...

I know this is out of focus, but I love how you can see them ALL looking at me with their ears perked  up...

They were still waiting for one more straggler...

Here she comes...and once she joined the family they all quickly kicked up their heels and disappeared back into the woods.

I love watching them together...they are very entertaining.  I was going to try and capture a video of them as they leaped across the road in front of me, but they were coming along too quickly and I decided the still photos would be better.  I do hope that wherever we move to there will still be families of deer to brighten our day. But I will leave that up to the Lord...He knows what is best for us. We still haven't even had any "lookers" at our house, so our move may take a bit longer than we originally expected.  I guess I'll have to get out the Thanksgiving decorations...the pilgrims and turkeys and garlands of fall leaves and get my heart in the right frame of mind to be Thankful!  We certainly do have much for which to be thankful. Perhaps that will be the theme for posts for this month.

I will start with being thankful for our family. Today we enjoyed the company of our sweet son and daughter in law. They came over for lunch. They will soon be celebrating their first anniversary!!
(picture from their wedding Nov. 11, 2107)

Sweet DIL is still recuperating from the surgery on her heel (achilles tendon) and has to stay off her foot for at least another month. So very thankful that people from our little church have stepped up to bring them meals throughout the week and to show them some love.  What a blessing for them!  So thankful for our church family, and also for this wonderful gift of our daughter in law.

Thankful also for answered prayers for my brother Russell, who continues to do well with his treatments, etc., for leukemia. Praise God!
(picture taken last year at the wedding...my brother with his lovely wife Anne)








Thankful for our friend Sharon, who is still battling lung cancer, and they have started a new round of chemo, which hopefully will help relieve the coughing and restore her strength. Please keep praying for her.  It has been almost exactly one year since she was diagnosed.
Picture below was taken at the wedding last year as well...Sharon was presenting the newlyweds with a gift that she had made. Today our kids have taken over this business that Sharon started and they create and sell these shelves online.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/BRCoastalRusticDecor  Another blessing...God is blessing their business and it has helped so much especially while DIL is on leave from her work.

Yes, this is a wonderful time to count our blessings...but we should count them all year long as well. I do...but I will try to be more consistent in giving glory to God each day.

Now let us go over and visit with our other Friday Foto Friends at Deb's place, Breathing in Grace.  I pray that you will have some "golden mornings" and that God will also point the way for you today!
Let us especially pray for our nation as we cast our votes next week. May God help us to select the leaders who will keep our country on the right path!