What Thanksgiving looks like

My mother sent a photo of a huge female turkey sitting on her bird feeder.

The giant, ungainly creature looked ridiculous, perched on the little wooden roof of a feeder intended for chickadees and nuthatches.

"She has been hanging around for two days now," my mother wrote. "Maybe our Thanksgiving dinner?"

Even before my mother sent this, I was thinking Thanksgiving looked a little strange this year.

I…