What I'm Grateful For in 2023

Left to right and circling down and to the right and up: Face painting at Migration Celebration at San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge for my Texas Master Naturalist group; making blueberry pie for Pi Night; my dad (middle) with my two brothers and my sister and me; Readerbuzz's 15th blogoversary; author Christina Soontornvat at the Texas Library Association Conference; my sister, brother-in-law, my husband, and me in Italy; grandkids Wyatt and Annie help me bake a cake; granddaughter Bailey with g-granddaughter Lucy and b-friend Daniel; friends and I go see Barbie; watercolors; My Favorite Books of All Time; jazz concert at the bookstore of my friend, Rae; g-kids Annie and Wyatt face off with a llama at a wildlife park; Texas Pollinator Study; Rae opens her bookstore, Rae's Reads; grandpup Jordan; Breakfast Mamas get-together; plethora of tomatoes from our garden; we visit Lisa and Ben and Lisa's parents in Chicago; oh, that fantastic backyard garden; g-granddaughter Lucy; we take a train ride with friends Mac and Karen.

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