Let The Turkeys Run Free...
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| "Autumn Creek" created by Gemini 3.0 & Nano Banana from prompt by Daniel A. Stafford |
I am thankful for... The sky over my head so I can breathe.
I am thankful for... The wife who I love, and who loves me back.
I am thankful for... The world below my feet, so that I have a place to stand, and that allows everything else I am thankful for to be.
I am thankful for... The farmers who grow the food so that I can eat.
I am thankful for... The family I come from so that I can be here at all.
I am thankful for... The blankets and pillows on my bed so I can sleep when I am tired.
I am thankful for... The home that keeps us housed, warm, or cool, depending on the season.
I am thankful for... The floor sweepers, the electricians, the plumbers, the carpenters, the IT technicians, the concrete pourers, the landscape workers, the clerks, the servers, the ship builders, the warehouse workers, the auto mechanics, the diesel mechanics, the cashiers, the hosts and hostesses, the cleaning crew at hotels, the ditch diggers, the doctors, the dentists, the dental hygienists, the nurses, the optometrists, the architects, the museum docents, the park rangers, the snow plow and truck drivers, and every other person who makes everything around me function. If you go to work every day, I respect you and am grateful for you.
I am thankful for... The people who give to charities when times are tough.
I am thankful for... The people who have lived on this land for millennia, and try to teach us ways to help life on it survive, whenever we are wise enough to listen.
I am thankful for... The people of all colors and cultures who bring us wonderful new things to make our community and society stronger, richer, and full of wonderful things.
I am thankful for... Books, so that I can learn and read stories.
I am thankful for... Freedom of speech, so that I know who is good and kind, and who is not.
I am thankful for... You.
Happy Thanksgiving, with love.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 11-27-2025
Image prompt: "Please create an image of at least 20 wild turkeys walking through a valley where the hills on either side are covered in Autumn leaves, a babbling creek runs along the bottom with shiny river rocks and rainbow trout swimming in an eddy pool near the point of view, and there are vattails growing and tufting at the near edge, and milkweed with burstin pods near the creek, a couple of pheasants on one side of the creek, and a red fox on the other. Have a few wild gourds growing near the creek as well. Make the sky a soft charcoal grey overcast with a slight fog rising from the creek. Use watercolor as the media."