Friday, May 02, 2008

Urban turkey...

by guest blogger OLGS

Quite a spring in Minneapolis. Louise and Joe H.S. saw two wild turkeys last week in the front yard, but did not get a snapshot. Yesterday, Joe College-on-leave was home, and he and I had this downstairs-upstairs exchange:

Joe: Dad, there's a turkey outside.

OLGS (with snark): Tell Gov. Pawlenty we already paid our Minnesota State Income Tax

Joe: No, there really is a turkey in the yard.

OLGS (grabbing camera): This I gotta see...

Note: the first snapshot is of Mitzi (below) running back inside from the wild gobbler. The second, shown above, is of the turkey next store on our neighbor's walkway, right by the "Minnesota" paving stone.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We get wild turkeys in Berkeley, too, although not very often. A few years ago one took up temporary residence in our back yard. I wonder if they are getting semi-domesticated, like the Canadian geese.