So Much To Be Thankful For

Here are few pictures from earlier in spring.I share them, simply because I like them and hope you do as well.

I am including a poem I found and felt that it was worth sharing.

Am I wrong to be always so happy? 

This world is full of grief;

Yet there is the laughter of sunshine, 

to see the crisp green on the leaf,

Daylight is ringing with song-birds, 

and brooklets are crooning at night;

And why should I make a shadow when God makes all so bright?

Earth may be wicked and weary, 

yet cannot I help being glad!

There is sunshine without and within me, 

and how should I mope or be sad?

God would not flood me with blessings, 

meaning for me only to pine

Amid all the bounties and beauties he pours upon me and mine;

Therefore I will be grateful, and therefore will I rejoice;

My heart is singing within me; sing on, O heart and voice.

~Walter C. Smith

Look around you and see the beauty and the blessings instead of the discord and strife.