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Trout - The season opened...
Trout! Browns, Rainbows and Brookies. The season used to open on April 1st and Tim V. and I would be down there at break of dawn that day - together or separately, every year, from the age of ten til who knows how many years later. It was a religious experience. A ritual that was at first mentioned a month before like a fragile prayer and gently eased over the intervening weeks into an ongoing communion of planning and preparation.

Lures and tackle were sorted and polished, packed and repacked into blessedly smelly tackle boxes like sacred icons, a liturgy repeated more and more frequently as that final baptismal sunrise approached. It was a

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Well, this is a joke. I originally wanted to depict a red-eyed tree frog making an emotionally charged attempt to reach a branch that was but centimeters too far. Will he fall... and all that!

Anyway, I am thinking of putting a hat in his raised hand, and a cane in the other.
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~aristarchus Sep 1, 2007
oh man, i really laughed out loud, and when i saw the background of greenery down below...even funnier and more daring. you've stumbled onto something that works.
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!DivaQueen Jun 3, 2007
your use of space is fantastic :)
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~sevenwillow May 28, 2007
cute lil one Thom :) Like the Warner Brothers Singing Frog lol....yes the top hat and cane would be perfecto!
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*kayceeus May 27, 2007
What a darling frog, he looks like he's performing his little heart out up there! :aww:
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~thomcomstock May 27, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I have missed you. It is good to be here again. :heart:
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~Belilmalebridia May 27, 2007
I like it as it is, the hat and a cane would give a nice impression too.
Dear Thom, sometimes crisis gives an unreal creative power, like one I have received last summer.
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~thomcomstock May 27, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thank you. :)

What crisis last summer?
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~Belilmalebridia May 27, 2007
The one I denied I was having :)
Until I ran away to freedom.
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~thomcomstock May 27, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Well, you obviously don't want to give any details, do you? :)
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~Belilmalebridia May 27, 2007
I was living miserably and denied that, then I fell in love (denied that too) and one day (the best day in my life) I ran away with my love. Now we are together and my life is more alive that I could imagine. I don't have to lie to myself anymore and live behind 4 walls like I did last summer.
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