TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Thanksgiving Day 2014

Friday, November 28, 2014

Thanksgiving Day 2014 - Family Pictures

Thanksgiving Day Pictures!

Thanksgiving Day this year was the warmest ever; it felt like summer. In other parts of the country, there were/are snowstorms with many travelers dealing with cancelled air flights.

A huge group of us celebrated this major American holiday, which is always held on the fourth Thursday in November. (Thanksgiving, along with Christmas and Easter are the top three American holidays.) Thanksgiving pretty much ushers in the Christmas season, and the shopping frenzy begins on Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving).

There's a picture of a peacock -- there are wild peacocks in the area where we celebrated. The peacocks originally came from the Arboreteum and have escaped and multiplied in the neighborhood. They look lovely, but apparently can destroy gardens.

More pictures, courtesy of Nicole Alix:

Tags: holiday, Thanksgiving, pictures, family

This is all for now,
Cecilia
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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.