Patchwork - The Scene Of The Crime

Working with Chris' slides in Photoshop yesterday, I came across an image that kept tickling my memory. A camping photo, taken early in the '70's, it shows Cheryl, her parent's truck and our tent, that last item borrowed for the occasion.

Then I saw the patch (highlighted in the bottom photo): it covered a hole that a raccoon had chewed in the tent side on our very first use of the tent a few years previously. While we all napped on our first afternoon camping at Myakka with our preschool sons, the masked bandit - smelling our food inches from the tent side - calculated that the shortest distance between two points is traditionally a straight line: we all awoke to see a furry arm reaching for a loaf of bread.

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Brownbird - and this is why you never place a candy bar in the sleeping bag with you =:o) - October 2nd