I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I equate Thanksgiving with fall, so I could not resist adding some gorgeous red maple leaves to this post! I loved maple trees ever since I was a child, so much that my father brought a sapling with us when we moved from Detroit to Baton Rouge. Then one day the cable guy accidentally ran over my tree when he was laying underground cable. I went from agitated to distraught when I realized that he accidentally replaced it with the wrong tree–a Southern sweet gum tree, which did not produce gum as I had hoped.  Now almost twenty years later, I am living in the North again, and I had forgotten how truly beautiful maple trees are!

Thanksgiving did not go as planned as we had to cancel our trip to Chicago at the last minute due to a family emergency, so we ended up cooking dinner at home. I’ve experienced so much change this year that I don’t even know where to begin, and I would never have imagined that I’d have a photography blog that people actually read! Thank you so much to my readers for encouraging me to keep posting pictures!

We stick an aluminum tent over the turkey (thank you Alton Brown!) so the breast meat doesn’t dry out. It makes the turkey look like a superhero and give a whole new meaning to “dressing”!

Beautifully colored turkey!

I know this doesn’t look like much, but we are still trying to finish the leftovers!