Do you count your blessings?

Paulo Coelho writes in The Alchemist about the baker's daughter: "for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."

Sunset and fog over Adelsheim's Bryan vineyard near Newberg, Yamhill County, Willamette Valley, Oregon.

 When people ask, "How are you?" I can only reply: "When I remember to count my blessings, excellent."

Vineyard worker offering a photographer whose camera and lens cost more than the worker makes in 20 years, some table grapes at the end of a long day of harvest, Hebei province, China.