Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer

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Fifty shades, gardening, Green, little help from my friends, photography, postaweek2012, summer, weekly photo challenge

Summer is short, but stabbingly beautiful. Mine starts here… in the garden.

It’s a sweet and blessed season for me ~ I sit on my heels and play in the dirt.

Early on, I hoe, dig, water, transplant, weed, sow, clean, cut and clip in a slender, naked, brown patch of unpardonably pretty earth…anticipate fifty shades of green…

….and chase blackbirds away with a little help from my friends.

Where do you find summer?

Toni 5/25/12

Tradecraft Primer from the Brown Thrasher to the CIA: Challenge Conclusions; Let All Voices Be Heard, Think Outside the Box, er, the Nest, Even When It’s Hard. Another 9-line, 420 Character Piece.

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Bird, Brown Thrasher, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, CIA's Red Cells, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States

With its 3000 songs and variations,

the Brown Thrasher choruses crises and current events with all the caveats

just like the CIA’s Red Cells.

So, instead of a Cheney-stove-piping of facts,

it’s “what are all the alternative explanations?”

Like the birdsong that travels in all directions and over long distances

when it’s hard to see,

as in dense vegetation or at night,

this CIA may figure out what’s truly happening.

Patty 5/24/12

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Red Tails and the Boys: Similarities. Is it That They Occupy a Wide Range of Places? No, It’s the Brows, Man. (Another 9-Line, 420 worder)

When I could cup my boys foreheads in the palm of my hand

I’d think Red Tail Hawk.

It’s the low brow ridge over their eyes.

For the RTs it keeps the sun from getting in their eyes when they hunt.

Both have eye lids too,

but the RTs sport a third clear lid that slides in from the corner

to protect their eyes

when they swoop into the grasses while hunting.

My boys use sunglasses and face masks, depending on their prey.

Patty 5/23/12