Ladies of Hive Contest number #64 - Seeing beauty in the small things
A big thank you to @preciousbae for tagging me in this contest as I honestly was feeling so low due to the happenings of the first week of 2022, that I could not think of anything much to be grateful for, but when I started going through some images, I realized that it's the small things in life that we take for granted that really count.
Firstly and foremost, after speaking to my good friend @artywink, we both agreed that we need to be thankful that we are alive and in good health, something many in today's world do not have!
Having good health enables us to do the things we really enjoy doing and make our family happy at the same time. I love cooking and baking and really enjoy spoiling friends and family.
Having a couple of fruit trees as well as herbs and vegetables in the garden are the very best; how lucky am I to be able to step out my kitchen door while cooking and quickly pick some fresh herbs to add to our meals!
South Africans do not realize just how lucky we are to have access to an abundance of fruit and vegetables at very affordable prices.
I am blessed to live in a quiet leafy valley with greenery all around. Despite living in a city suburb, the air is pure as there are no industries nearby.
Stepping outside, all I see is a lush garden filled with flowering shrubs and fruit trees that we've planted over the years, plus a pool to jump into during the extremely hot summer days we have here in our subtropical climate.
These are things is I am truly grateful for as I know there are many people in this world who do not have that luxury!
Having a mild winter, we have flowers throughout the year so the garden is always filled with colourful and some fragrant flowers, something I just love seeing every day. I likely could write an entire book about all the flowers we have in our garden, nothing fancy, nothing grand, but all simply beautiful!
I am thankful for special friends, my hubby who is my rock especially now that Mom Lily is slowly fading away as she becomes frailer by the day, but we've had her for 90 years already.
My sons are two amazing gifts, each one with their own personalities, but both real gentlemen and kind to others.
We are truly blessed to live in a beautiful country where we can get away with friends or family and spend quality time in the majestic mountains or the ocean with the sound of the waves being our lullaby every night!
Seeing the sunrise over the Indian Ocean and the moon shining on the waters, brings calmness to my heart, and for that, I am most grateful, as we have the assurance of a fresh new day, and time to rest at the end of the day.
I could go on and on, and really need to thank @kittygirl for the Ladies of Hive Community and the awesome topics they bring each week and that this was a reminder of just how much I have to be grateful for! Hoping time will allow me to join in more often!
This has been my contribution to the Ladies of Hive Contest #64, hope you enjoyed it!
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Really in the small things of daily life great gifts that life gives us are hidden and many times we take it for granted, thank you for sharing those beautiful images which you can contemplate daily is very fortunate @lizelle
Hi @devania, very true words!
Sorry for only getting back to you now but life's been hectic. We need to just open our eyes to the beauty around us not so!
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What a beautiful post, @Lizelle.
There is so much to be grateful for... the place where we live, the people who live with us and our friends... the bountiful harvest, the beautiful flowers, the mountains, skies... just so much to be thankful for.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck with the contest!
“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude." — Steve Maraboli
That quoted phrase is so very profound and something we need to be mindful of all the time @silversaver888🙏🏻
I forgot that you were also part of the Ladiesof Hive team! (yep blame those silver hairs)
Thank you for this community of amazing ladies!
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Aww thank you for thinking of me. I actually am signed up with the community but the questions asked so far have been difficult to come up with something. Just like the two questions above. I am feeling pretty disgruntled these days haha and I feel weird saying something nice about myself haha.
Anyway my friend I do feel grateful for having hive to get lost in. Truly I don't know what I would do without the hive incentives and the friends like you that I've connected with.
I think your surroundings are absolutely heavenly and you deserve it.🙂💗
You've described it so aptly as I feel exactly like this!
Hope you are keeping well my friend💞
Thank you for this community 🤗
Beautifully said my friend, we have so much to be grateful for, for life,abundance of life sustaining things like fruit and vegetables, beautiful country, and for most, our families. You couldn't have put it better. Go well my friend and be blessed you deserve it.
Having special friends like you is a wonderful blessing as well @artywink!
Aww my friend, thank you it goes both ways. Keep safe and take one day at a time.
The fresh fruit and vegetables look so delicious. I love fresh fruit. I can remember when I was little my grandfather had a garden and had some vegetables and a lot of fruit trees.
The flowers are so colorful. I can just imagine how lovely they smell.
The older generation were wiser by growing their own vegetables and fruit. We need to plant more but we do have a problem with the monkeys, at least they don't like lettuce & herbs😉
What lovely abundance of love, joy and colour around you in your home @lizze. You are such a great cook and while my waters at the pizza and bread I cannot eat it due to the necessity of following a wheat intolerant diet. Damn!
I do hope your mom Lily is doing well after her traumatic start to the day. Life is so preciously wonderful never to be taken for granted. Sending you love as it is a tough time to see a mom slowing fading. ❤️
I really enjoyed reading this post (& seeing all those lovely pics!) @lizelle. I hope you are feeling well and are out of isolation already?