Turkey With All the Trimmings

All sorts of notoriety in the Short/Daub family. While mother Susanna basks in the limelight as newly published author of the hot selling Bundt Cake Bliss, daughter makes the news on her own.

Mattie won first prize (age 9 – 12 division) in the Star Tribune’s Turkey “coloring” contest.

For those of you not from the Twin Cities area, here's how it works. Every year on Thanksgiving Day the Star Tribune features a large picture of a Turkey in it’s Source Section (formerly known as Variety – the one with the comics). Several weeks later (like today) they announce the winners. Here’s a slide show.

As you can see, some contestants have gone way beyond color crayons. Mattie uses that Minnesota staple, seed-art or crop-art, to give her winning creation a particularly Minnesotan spin.

Congratulations Mattie!