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Frog & Newt Friends...
The Southern Muse Bullfrog in rocking chair, with Thanksgiving feast laid out on a toadstool. Caption: "Thankful for Good Friends."     (MORE FROGS)

Chubby had a plan... (Turkey humor)
Cartoon of a turkey going through a grocery-store check-out line with a buggy full of diet food. Caption: "This year, Chubby had a plan."   Alternate Caption: "This year, Stan had a plan." (same cartoon artwork).

Happy Thanksgiving... (Tradition)
A pretty, bright cornucopia. "Happy Thanksgiving" is written in pretty script. Traditional, old-fashioned card.

Fox Sells Disguises to Turkeys... (humor)
A sly fox sells masks to stupid turkeys. Caption: "Ralph made a killing selling disguises (lone-ranger masks). The turkeys just aren't too bright." (Thanksgiving turkey humor, animal humor).

Turkey Desiderata
This philosophical turkey is musing on his plight. The caption reads, "If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs..." (a famous line from Desiderata.)

The Lone Free Ranger
One lone turkey walks by, sporting a black eye mask. This postcard makes a pun on free-range turkeys. It also implies that turkeys are disguising themselves to avoid the grim reaper this Thanksgiving.

Prize Turkey (humor)
The comic has turkey's face that looks like a newspaper photo. The caption says, "Sam was mighty pleased to see his picture on the front page of the newspaper ~ till he remembered what happened to last year's Prize Turkey. Turkey humor.

Family is a good thing (humor)
Painting, "Three People on a Sofa" (by D.K. Pritchett). The family ~ a man, woman and child ~ look oddly out of place in a pretty parlor. They have been served a plate of appetizers by their unseen hostess. They have a comfortable, pleasant look. The caption says, "Family is a good thing. Happy Thanksgiving." (Southern Humor, Redneck humor, hillbilly humor, appalachian humor).

Thankful for quiet moments
Oil painting of a copper teapot, captioned, " I'm thankful for quiet moments. Traditional Thanksgiving card. The teacup in the painting is the Wedgwood "Potpourri" pattern.

Thankful for Family
This postcard features a painting by D.K. Pritchett, of an old man in the kitchen, cooking. The caption says, "Be Thankful for Family." The colors are pastels and creams. Thanksgiving traditional, family, nostalgia.

Be Thankful for God's Bounty
A cornucopia full of fruit, captioned "Be Thankfulfor God's Bounty. Rich designer colors. Thanksgiving traditional, religious.

Wild Turkey humor
"Wild Turkeys are Saucier" is the caption on this card. It has a close-up of a turkey's face (artwork), in unusual designer colors.

Horn of Plenty
Horn of plenty in bright fall colors, says "Happy Thanksgiving." Pretty and Traditional.

Main Postcard Page: Send a postcard from Southern Muse. The postcards on this page include a cartoon of a turkey shopping for diet foods ("Stan had a plan"); a brightly colored cornucopia, captioned, "Happy Thanksgiving"; a sly fox selling masks (disguises) to stupid turkeys; a wistful, philosophical turkey who ponders a turkey's plight (quoting Desiderata "If you can keep your head..."); the Lone Free-Ranger (a pun on free-range turkeys); a prize turkey, who is proud to see his picture in the newspaper (till he remembers what happened to last year's prize turkey); Southern redneck humor (a family, oddly out of place, sitting in a pretty parlor); teapot art (thankful for quiet moments); a painting of an old man in a baseball cap, standing at the stove, cooking (thankful for family); a horn of plenty (be thankful for God's bounty); a "wild" turkey (odd colors); and finally, another horn of plenty, this one in bright fall colors.