Archive for November, 2008

Wild Turkeys – Thanks but no thanks

10/23

Kristi and I are discussing the last bits of putting the garden to bed. We’re wondering about the winter rye, our standard cover crop for the Maine vegetable plots. She planted it 10 days ago but nothing seems to be coming up. Big Mystery. Seed was fresh, there has been rain…

10/24

Mystery solved first thing in the morning.  I look out the bedroom window into the rosy dawn and there in the garden is a flock of wild turkeys, busily scratching and eating.

wild turkey dining on rye and clover

wild turkey breakfasting on rye and clover

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