A Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving to All

Happy Thanksgiving!

It was a lovely day today. We have caught up with Fall -- some of the trees here are just turning their Fall colors --

This one, just outside Auntie Violet's door has these beautiful shades of red and yellow --

We had a quiet day today, sort of eating our way through it. We started with crab cocktails about lunch time, followed up with pecan pie. Later this evening we had our roast chicken, dressing and caramelized sweet potatoes.

Forry has been kidding me about these extra guests that show up towards evening every day --

This turkey vulture is one of a fairly large flock that roost in the trees at the edge of the RV park --

How many can you count in the picture above? (I can count at least five...)

Note the red head typical of the turkey vulture in the picture above. The one on the right below is most likely a black vulture which doesn't have that red featherless head. It seems to be a mixed flock of the two types. We've counted at least twenty of them circling before they come into roost.

It was a bit chillier today. A cold front came through and I don't think it got much above 75 degrees this afternoon. We watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade this morning, then the National Dog Show. I've just realized that Forry has not watched a single football game!

Fall in Kentucky

We didn't get as far north as Maine (and are sure glad we didn't with the nor'easter and snow forecast for this weekend!), but we have experienced some glorious color anyway this fall.  I took these pictures of the wooded hills during our drive yesterday.  It was an overcast, gloomy day.  I wonder how bright these colors would have been if the sun were out?

There were a great many trees and shrubs that were orange and red.  I can identify the sumacs, but I don't know any of the others...

The part of Kentucky we are in is very hilly.  The trees don't appear to be very ancient --

I took the next couple of pictures this evening here at the Yarwood Motor Home Park.  The sun was setting behind the trees to the west end of the park --

These trees have not yet turned color.  They looked almost eerie with the red behind them!

We weren't terribly ambitious today.  We went to the post office to pay our Adams County 1/2 taxes and picked up some Priority Mail boxes to send Sister Sherry's birthday present and the Halloween packages to the grand-kids.  We got those filled and addressed and took them back to the post office.  I fixed a small pork loin with a peach jam glaze and cut up the last of the butternut squash for dinner.