IllustrationFriday: Proverb - and Giveaway! (starts today, ends on 9/25)

"Love is Blind"

Every morning, as I drive my kids to school, we cross an overpass and we wish our fair city, a huge "good morning!!!". Sometimes we see the fog which has settled over on the coast (Santa Cruz area) which makes for a beautiful scene. I often say, "look at that, girls, look at the clouds, the sky, the sunrise..". We have many moments of reflection about the gifts that are all around us. This morning was especially wonderful. As I got my youngest out of the car, we stopped and heard loud honking. Not cars, but flocks (three huge flocks) of geese overhead..coming toward us and so we stopped and watched and listened. It...was...amazing! My little one loved it, too.
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I wanted to thank all of my friends out here in blogland for your kindness through the year and a half that I've been blogging. I have grown from this experience and it has become such a joy to me. I plan to keep blogging for many years. To thank you for your kindness, I am having a "giveaway". The giveaway will be either an 8.5x11 print from my Etsy shop (smileshop.etsy.com) or 8.5x11 print of anything that you see on the blog to date. Some of the images have never been printed, so I will do my best to try to make a nice print of it. In honor of the upcoming 300th follower, I will give away 3 prints.

Here's what I'd love for you to do (in your comment):
1) let us know what the best piece of advice you've ever heard and take to heart to this day
2) be kind to someone today
3) notice something in nature that brings you peace today.

I'll use a random generator to pick the three recipients. I hope that you all feel you are winners when you scroll through the answers everyone shares.
Giveaway starts today (9/16 and ends on 9/25)