🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating today. This year I’m thankful for Micro.blog and my feline overlord.

Closeup view of a tabby cat with her owner peeking out from behind her

The family was lucky enough to grab tickets to a feast of knock-your-socks-off jazz last night at the Plymouth Penn theater. Dichi kicked us off with a bang before Cabare Boreale came and stole our hearts. Finally, Chris Plum brought the house down.

Quiet frost covered roofs and cloud wisps exploding in the sky. Autumn beauty is more than leaves.

sunrise over rooftops blue sky with clouds

What are we going to do today, human?
The same thing we do every day, cat.
Try to take over the world!

”Plpppbbbbbb”
My father caught their hummingbird blowing a raspberry.

Hummingbird standing on a branch sticking out its tongue

Traveling through farmlands in the American midwest, I can see the inspiration behind many painted masterworks.

Open, plowed, midwestern American farmland in the fall with bare trees in the distance

Thankful to be celebrating my grandfather’s 97th birthday with lots of family. This sunset view was the perfect cap-off to a meaningful weekend.

saturated pink sunset clouds
Black and white photo of a male and female deer wandering through the back yard of some houses

Animals do things that we have never seen, and will never see. Maybe it’s because they do those things cautiously, privately; or maybe it’s just because the world is vast, and they do them, just by chance, when nobody is looking. Odds are good, because usually, nobody is looking.

  • Robin Sloan
Sunrise over house rooftops with small clouds spreading out overhead
It is an act of significant discipline to say, “I’m going to stare out the window. I’m going to schedule some time to stare out the window.”
  • Clay Shirky

The good news is I kept all of our pomegranates from spoiling. The bad news is my T-shirt looks like I’ve just killed somebody.

Pomegranate seeds in a bowl with a small blue paring knife sticking out of them

We still have a long way to go but at least we’re not back in the bad old days of this war recruitment poster.

World war 2 navy recruitment poster of an illustrated woman wearing a naval uniform saying she wishes she were a man

I’m jealous of people who can journal their lives with pages of prose. Nothing I could write would match this photo of my small but lovely autumn view.

photo of a window with fall leaves in the view

Another rainy day so the sun only had the briefest of moments to make some color. (That’s colour in Celsius.)

Sunrise pink sunlight making half-moons on the bottom of dark clouds
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