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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday, in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He encourages us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his post.

Today John shared a photo and a story about a luau he and his family attended on a trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. My share today takes place at another exotic location beyond the deer wire fence in my backyard.

There is a steep drop-off behind my yard to the house behind ours, and we’ve seen all kinds of critters there, from deer to skunks to coyotes. But the other day, we had these three visitors who were grazing on the hill.

Our dog saw them on the other side of the fence. She was barking wildly and running back and forth along the fence line. But these three wild turkeys were nonplussed, ignoring the barking and the running dog entirely. Turkeys are alleged to be dumb birds, but these three seemed to know that a five-foot-tall wire fence protected them from a crazy dog.

Last week I used a new feature in Google Photos to create a brief animation of my cellpic of my cat. Just for giggles, I decided to do it again with my turkey photo. It’s fun.

As usual, the photos used in this post have been resized (shrunk) to make them load more quickly and take up less space in my WordPress media folder.

“Listen up, folks. Tomorrow is National Pick Strawberries Day and we have to have this commercial ready to be released to all the major media outlets first thing in the morning,” the director, Bruce Wareward, said.

“Excuse me, boss, can I talk with you for a minute before you start?” Calvin, a computer animation engineer assigned to the team, asked.

“No time, kid,” Bruce said. “We’re on a deadline and I’ve got to get these elephants in position and it’s turning out to be harder than I thought getting these live elephants onto three platforms without trampling the strawberries in the field.”

“But, sir, I can….”

“Quiet kid, I need to focus,” the director said. “The third elephant is being lowered on the platform and if we can get it there without the cable snapping or the crane arm breaking, we will be ready to start filming.”

Unfortunately for Bruce, the cable securing the third elephant did snap, sending the poor elephant to a crash landing onto the strawberry field. The elephant was uninjured but the director was pissed. “Shit!” Bruce yelled. “We’re fucked now.”

Calvin ran up to the director. “I have a low-cost solution that will get you what you need. He opened up his laptop and showed Bruce an AI image he created.