A vintage shot of a young Thanksgiving cook:

And a later shot of the same girl with an amazing offering during her vegetarian phase:

The offensive dead bird lurks in the background.

Here she and  sister are stirring up the home-grown potatoes and the foraged chanterelles.  As MM wrote, “This solidifies our standing as people of the earth.”

And one year when we couldn’t get together on the day, we had a great faux Thanksgiving earlier in November:

It’s all good, literally and figuratively and my heart is full of gratitude for so many things.