Thanksgiving – no time for diets

Don’t count calories.
Savor silken pumpkin, tart
cranberries. Taste joy.

Thanksgiving baking

Tempting smells – so strong
they nearly satiate the
appetite – drift by.

Thanksgiving – division of labor

They’ll watch football. We’ll
cook. Men and women. Hunters
and gatherers still.

Thanksgiving – turkey envy

Brine, barbecue, deep
fry, roast, smoke? How many ways
can you do one Tom?

Thanksgiving procrastination

Canned pumpkin sold out.
Damned overachievers! I’m
a “last-minute” type.

Winter landscape

First snowfall blankets
unraked beds of leaves. Nature’s
default is beauty.

November rain

Wet dampness always
seems colder than that first soft
warm blanket of snow.

No pumpkin pie

Instead, a pumpkin
cheesecake. Traditions are good.
Cheesecake is better.

Autumn precedence

Trees have never held
leaves as late as November.
Frost was wrong. Gold stays.

Thanksgiving bird = bird giving thanks

Fourteen wild turkeys
on my back deck raid the grape
vines looking for fruit.