Thanksgiving: ‘the act of giving thanks.’ President Abraham Lincoln, by proclamation declared a national day of thanksgiving during the midst of our Civil War in 1863. Lincoln said (in part) on October 3, 1863 ‘I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers…’
I have so much to be thankful for. Hoping that you and yours enjoy the blessings and abundance of the day.
Here display cases are filled with the abundant harvest of the land, fresh fruits and vegetables to be purchased by customers at Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market.
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There you go, I didn’t know we can be thankful to Lincoln for a holiday, even if we celebrate ours a little earlier!
Beautiful shot. I hope you had a marvelous day.
happy thanksgiving, madge.
Madge, thanks for giving us the Lincoln quote. We need to be reminded from time to time that the day is more than stuffing ourselves with turkey. However enjoyable that is . . .
I hope your Thanksgiving was lovely! :)
they say that the first official thanksgiving was actually here in virginia at berkeley plantation http://www.berkeleyplantation.com/ each year they hold a special thanksgiving celebration and i’d love to go, if i ever remember!
hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! (albeit belated)
I feel I can reach out and pluck a piece of fruit right off my screen, great stuff!
A very bountiful image Madge, belated happy Thanksgiving.
Beautiful shot!
Best wishes!