Monday, October 12, 2015

A Thanksgiving Thought


Technically,
the Canadian calendar
shows that today,
Monday, October 12th,
is Thanksgiving Day.


But many Canadians,
myself, included,
celebrated with family
and friends yesterday.


Ultimately,
giving thanks and being grateful
for all the goodness in our lives,
is an everyday occurrence, isn't it?

 
Still,
 getting together with loved ones,  
and sharing in God's abundance of
bountiful blessings, makes for a special
occasion, indeed, whatever the day.
 
 
For me, I'm especially thankful to be
 spending my first Thanksgiving in over
16 years, in my hometown of Toronto.
To you, thanks for visiting, and
Happy Thanksgiving to all
 my Canadian friends!
 
xo
Poppy
 
P.S.
The pics are all of Liberty's neighbourhood,
and my walking wonderland.

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56 comments:

  1. My hope is that your day is full of family and phone calls and love.
    Brenda

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  2. Happy Thanksgiving.

    A Big yes to your thoughts. We celebrated yesterday and today hopefully we will get out to enjoy the BEAUTIFUL scenery and then cheer on the Toronto Blue Jays!!

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  3. Hello Poppy, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Lovely Autumn images. Enjoy your new week ahead!

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  4. Dearest Poppy, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Your photos are so beautiful! Thank you so much for the Thanksgiving wishes, yes it is today here in Canada...some people celebrate it earlier, but today is the actual day. I think, though, Thanksgiving should be a daily thing. :)

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  5. Thank you Poppy for your beautiful post! It is always good to take time to be thankful for sure! Happy Thanksgiving. Lynn

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  6. That's wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. xoxo Su

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  7. Wonderful fall colors and photos... Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family dear Poppy :)

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  8. As the holiday season kicks off, I greet Thanksgiving happily as one that centers around people. We haven't had all the family together for Thanksgiving for several years, but it is lovely to be with even a small group of family.

    Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

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  9. Dear Poppy I wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving. Your photographs captured the beauty and abundance in nature in the neighborhood you enjoy and embrace. Being appreciate and keeping Thanksgiving in our heart throughout the year is a gift and true blessing from it's celebration.
    Enjoy the magical painted leaves, the crispness in the air and the delightful crunch sound of fallen leaves while you take your walks.
    xoxo,
    Vera

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  10. Oh what a beautiful post. Love the Fall photo's. Come over and link at The Fabulous Fall Party.

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  11. Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday so we can all head home for Monday and have leftovers.
    How nice for you to spend the holiday in Canada Poppy...

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  12. Happy celebrations, dear Poppy!!!!
    The colours of the trees are gorgeous!!!!!!

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  13. Happy Thanksgiving, Poppy. We celebrated with family yesterday, too, and today is a quiet day at home. Leftovers are in the fridge and so no cooking is needed. A great day to relax.

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  14. How nice to be spending Thanksgiving with family. I hope you had a wonderful time. Such lovely photos. The trees are gorgeous.
    Have a wonderful week.
    Hugs Julie

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  15. Happy belated Thanksgiving. So glad that you were spending it with your family. Your pictures are stunning, oh so beautiful. thanks so much for sharing your Fall pictures with us.
    Have a wonderful week.
    Hugs,
    Mary

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  16. Happy Thanksgiving Poppy, and may this be the first of many holidays you get to spend with loved ones!

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  17. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
    I loved the colors of trees.
    Have a great new week ahead!

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  18. oh good grief charlie brown.
    i would live and walk in liberty's neighborhood from now on!
    our leaves haven't even begun to turn color yet.
    they may not! just like last year. it's still summer here apparently.
    so... i'm so enjoying spending autumn there with you!
    much love and a huge snoopy hug darling poppy mine. XOXOXO♥

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  19. Happy Thanksgiving to you Poppy! Thanksgiving is celebrated every day in our hearts and I am thankful for so much, including you dear Poppy. You bring such love, warmth and charm to us when you share and each of us are made very special, by your beautiful, kind heart. Your autumnal image shares are stunning and I imagine that every day you shall notice even more brilliance in their show of colours. We need more rain to bring much colour here, for many a leaf is dropping to the ground in dry brown. Last evening provided some of that much needed rain and so we shall see. Hugs to you~

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  20. Beautiful pictures. Your daughters neighborhood is so picturesque. I hope your Thanksgiving Day celebration was great. I agree we should always be thankful, especially for being with loved ones. I'm happy for you that you're enjoying your time back home in Toronto! The fall colors are starting here. I think in another week it will be quite a show! Cheers to apple cider and all that we enjoy at this time of year!

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  21. Happy Belated Thanksgiving back to you Poppy! Your Fall photos are beautiful. Our family did the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner on Monday where my son and his girlfriend hosted their first Thanksgiving in their new home. It was lovely!

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  22. Happy thanksgiving to you my dear friend. Lovely to see your photos of exploding colours.
    Enjoy time with your loved ones and friends.

    Hugs.
    Aida

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  23. Happy Thanksgiving Poppy. So happy you could be in your home town and be with family.
    Enjoy your time.
    Kris

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  24. Great that you are there and enjoying it!AriadnefromGreece!

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  25. Happy Thanksgiving to you. It is good to take time to count our blessings isn't it. xx

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  26. A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you, sweet Poppy. Since my dad is Canadian we celebrated the beautiful holiday on Sunday. My mom cooked up quite the delicious feast including yorkshire pudding which is something my Canadian grandmother always made {{smiles}} Hugs to you!

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  27. Poppy Happy Thanksgiving to you. I am so happy to hear that you were able to spend this holiday in yo ur hometown. It is a bittersweet feeling this one with 2 countries. But I am grateful to have one more day with loved ones no matter where I am so long as they are safe and sound. Good to hear from you and hope you are having a great time. Best time of the year to be there.

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  28. Happy Thanksgiving! You do have a walking paradise! Gorgeous flowers. Enjoy your time in your hometown.

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  29. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Poppy. Liberty lives in a beautiful area and the colours are gorgeous. It really is a beautiful time of the year. Enjoy!

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  30. Happy Thanksgiving day to you,,a day late...but like you said, we should celebrate Thanksgiving everyday, right?! This is such a lovely post with glorious images of fall spendor. I am so glad you were able to finally to be "home" for that special time with your family!

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  31. Happy belated Thanksgiving Poppy! What beautiful fall colors. such a different world than your Crete island, both uniquely beautiful in their own ways. So special that you could spend Thanksgiving with family.

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  32. Happy Thanksgiving to your and your family. Fall in Canada is most definitely a walking wonderland. The colors are spectacular!

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  33. Hello,Poppy!
    What a beautiful autumn you have. They are so beautiful and I feel your positive eyes through your lens. Here, I am waiting for leaves to change, but most are still green.
    Hope you enjoy your autumn.

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  34. How I miss views like that. How wonderful for you to be there during the Autumn season. Sure is beautiful! Enjoy!

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  35. We all have so much to be thankful for, not least of which are the beauty of nature and blogging friends :-)
    Amalia
    xo

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  36. Your Canadian wonderland is truly stunning! Thank you for sharing with us on the Art of Home-Making Mondays Poppy! :)

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  37. Those pictures are wonderful, the leaves have such amazing colours.

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  38. There's no place like home for a Thanksgiving celebration! Hope it was a lovely day, Poppy!

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  39. I hope you are well and glad had a wonderful Thanksgiving Poppy.xo

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  40. Dearest Poppy,
    I am thinking of you with warm friendship today and sending many loving wishes your way.
    Your Canadian landscape is gorgeous!
    I just imagine that this Thanksgiving has been so special for you, after 16 long years of separation at this time of the year. Family is everything, they are what makes the world go round.
    I hope that you enjoyed each and every morsel of the delicious food and that laughter and joy permeated every corner of the room.
    Sending love and happy thoughts for a Blessed week!
    xo
    Jemma

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  41. Poppy, I loved all your photos. I knew it was Thanksgiving in Canada. Blessings to all, xoxo,Susie

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  42. Hi Poppy,
    Belated Happy Thanksgiving to you............and thanks for coming by to visit and for your sweet
    comments, they were so appreciated hon.
    Wow, thanks for sharing all these wonderful Fall photos, they make my heart sing they are so beautiful...........you sure have a lovely neighborhood.............with all those gorgeous trees........

    Glad you were able to get together with your family for Thanksgiving and that you all had a wonderful time.. That is always such a joy and treat for us to get together too..............our thanksgiving want be here for awhile yet...........so we are in the process of looking forward to it,
    and several birthday and our Anniversary of 45 yrs..........

    Have a wonderful Fall hon,
    Blessings,Nellie.

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  43. Belated Happy Thanksgiving, Poppy! Your photos are so fabulous!...Christine

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    1. Hi Christine,

      Thanks so much for stopping by! I'd love to visit you, but see that you are a no-reply blogger, so I have no way of doing so. If you see this, please email me.

      Thanks and hope you are having a lovely week!

      Poppy

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  44. Poppy, you can't imagine how beautiful these pictures are to me! So little color here yet; the leaves just seem to turn brown and fall. The beautiful hardwood trees in your pictures are breathtaking and how fitting that they are so beautiful as you celebrated your Canadian Thanksgiving with family.

    I love picturing you and Liberty walking in her lovely neighborhood and passing by the pond with all the waterfowl. Charming!

    A late happy Thanksgiving, dear friend,
    Dewena

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  45. What a lovely post...with so beautiful pictures.
    Happy Thanksgiving Poppy!

    Titti

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  46. How wonderful for you to be home for the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  47. Oh my goodness, how beautiul! Your pic and all their color are marvelous!

    Hope you enjoyed your special holiday - 16 years is such a very long time!

    Hugs! ♥

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  48. Hi Poppy, What a beautiful post and your photos are gorgeous. I love seeing the beautiful change of color in the trees. Something we don't see much of here in Texas. Happy Thanksgiving and hope your holiday was very special. Going home for the holiday is a blessing.
    Hugs and Joy to you, cm

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  49. I'm a little late in catching up, so happy belated Thanksgiving, Poppy! So wonderful you were able to spend it with your family in Canada! Liberty's neighborhood is picture perfect!

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  50. I'm so happy that you got to spend Thanksgiving in Toronto. Your photography is, as always, simply incredible! It takes me back a few years when my hubby and I did a Fall Color Tour through New England. I had never seen such magnificent colors. I hope you had a wonderful visit!

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  51. Thankfulness is always a great idea whether on Thanksgiving day or not...it is like putting a postage stamp on our prayers...it ensures they reach God's ears.

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  52. Love the beautiful colors of fall you shared in this post. I hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving! I am definitely looking forward to our Thanksgiving here in the U.S. later this month.

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Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate hearing from all of you! Have a great day!