The girls were at the family cottage up North for the summer and the local girls met up with them to go on a picnic. With packed lunches in their backpacks, off they went towards the creek, skipping stones to the other side. This led them to a darker, damp terrain leading into the woods. Sounds of various birds and crickets were heard over the rushing water of the creek
The youngest, chubby girl started whining she was scared. One of the locals mocked her, “Ooooo, stranger danger!! Are you afraid of the boogie man?”. She squealed and said she’d rather wait by the water and they took off into the woods. Minutes felt like hours to chubby, so she started skipping rocks by the creek until she slipped on one looking strangely different. She took a stick to poke the odd looking shape…
Moss covered stone
sleeps lazily by the creek
army of ants
army of ants
secured by rock-hard shield
camouflaged with moss
© Tournesol`’15
Tournesol dans un Jardin 
When you live far from nature you suddenly find how much there is to learn.Excellent exploration into philosophy by showing, not telling
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Thank you, Hamish, that IS the key and beauty of waka, I am learning…still a novice.
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What a discovery!
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I know eh?! That`ll show the older kids…maybe I should make this a little sequel…I`ll see what the next prompts are.
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May there always be some place in the world where stones are camouflaged by moss!
No Moss
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So true 🙂
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So nicely done, Clr. Blessings.
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Thanks, Jancie…Cl or Clr is how I sign all my work messages:)
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Interesting time to read this. I noticed some big black ants outside my house yesterday and today I’ve found four of them inside. I’m a bit nervous about it!
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Put traps right away or that powder…you have to leave it there…hope you don’t have a cat or dog though, then you`ll have to go to hardware store and they will recommend what is best.
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Darned ants can always ruin a perfectly good picnic!
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Ants and wasps are my pet peeve at picnics. If they only minded their own business it would be fine.
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