Oct 10 2021 - Thanksgiving Only in Canada

 

Is there a reason we must call today Canadian Thanksgiving? Yes, it is a simple reason - American Thanksgiving is bigger, bolder, and more cherished.  It seems to be next to sacred with its mythical beginning with the Pilgrims.  Search for Thanksgiving and all manner of U.S. perspectives will be retrieved.   What about the Canadian perspective? I found this quote, without attribution, to describe it: It's very dear to me, the issue of Canadian Thanksgiving.  Or, as I like to call it:  "Thanksgiving"... I had lunch this afternoon, not Canadian lunch.  I parked my car.  I didn't Canadian park it.   The proximity to Christmas is portrayed in this visual joke:   Americans too complain about its placement in the calendar: “Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” —Richard Roeper “My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” –  Katharine McPhee Given Thanksgiving's place in the calendar, we might find this joke especially funny:     I drive "down" Cherry Ave every week on my way from Elaine's Pear Blossom Orchard to pick up my vegetables.  It is a great hill with a spectacular view of Toronto across the lake.  That is where today's picture was taken.  It was at the bottom of Cherry Ave and Highway 8 way back in October 2009. This corner is now a vineyard, but then it was a field of wildflowers.  Lucky me that day that a person in a red jacket was riding their bicycle.

Nov 16 2020 - American Thanksgiving

 

It is coming soon - American Thanksgiving.  So late in the year, it crowds into Christmas.  They have developed orange Poinsettias to accommodate this cross-over.   The other thing it has in timing that is difficult is the American election.  This sets up difficult and troublesome situations.  For example, Trump has been ruining American Thanksgiving since 2015 when a poll showed he was the politician most likely to ruin the Dinner.  The headlines about Trump and Thanksgiving in 2015, 2017 and 2019 were things like: "How to talk to Trump-Loving relatives at Thanksgiving."  During this election campaign, Trump predicted that if Biden becomes their next president, the Americans will have to bid farewell to Christmas and Thanksgiving.  That is a definite "ruin Thanksgiving" headline. On the other side of the ocean, the UK does have a sort of Thanksgiving - it seems to be November 26th this year.  Here's a quote from a website named wayenglishcourse.co.uk:  "The American thanksgiving is not celebrated in the UK because no one had to be thankful for their new land and good ocean trip." Our picture today is compensating for the diminishing colours of our landscape that November brings. It is a lovely Florida sunrise in 2016.   I wonder when we can expect the best sunrise/sunset colour here in Niagara.  Is there a time of year when it is best?  In terms of locations, Port Dalhousie and Niagara Falls have dramatic sunrises/sunsets.  One dilemma for Niagara Falls is that it has the most dramatic ones during the coldest winter weather.

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What Next America - Am-Next!

I wonder what the expression will be for America during the Trump-era.  Will it be something like Brexit?  It could be Am-Ex - the American Exit.  There's the mystery of what next, so it could be Am-Next.   Our pictures today were taken last November at the University of Toronto campus, with the stone portals and doorways looking through to the Autumn colours in the distance.