Who says you can never go back?
Not that I am a big environmentalist now, but the nature camp here in Augusta that I attended one summer as a kid really did leave an impression. Maybe even more vivid a memory for me than the camp itself is the road I took to get to the camp.
There was a contest for school kids to do some kind of nature related project. I won and got a scholarship to the nature camp. I think I may have been the only one who actually entered a project - but I will have to get a fact check from Ma on that.
It doesn't matter. I really enjoyed doing the project.
I had found a dead shrew near the little patch of woods between our neighborhood and the Mooney house. I think everyone called their house Mooney's Manor - cuz that is how Mr. Mooney answered the fone.
I brought the freshly dead shrew home and Ma put it in the fridge - to keep it from decomposing. Then she helped me research the shrew and make a diorama of its natural habitat. The salad crisper of our fridge was not its natural habitat.
The contest judging was upstairs at Lithgow library. I remember being very proud of my project as Ma and I set it up for display. The camp and the project with my mother have stuck with me for all these years.
Today, on our way home from some errands, my mother and I stopped by the nature camp grounds again to see some lily pads.
More pics below.
Ma taking pics of a pond full of lily pads.
The lily pad pond.
The lily pads.
And me shucking corn for dinner.
I was with you on bringing it home...maybe burying it, but did you put the shrew in the diorama? That's a little back woods of Maine or even better something the Herdmans would do (ask mum who the Herdmans are.)
Nice pics.
Posted by: Suzanne | September 08, 2007 at 08:52 AM
I second that ew. I hope the lettuce keeper also saw the end of its days? Maine looks SO pretty!
Posted by: Anthony Potter | September 08, 2007 at 07:02 AM
ew...you kept a dead animal in your fridge?
Posted by: Sarah | September 08, 2007 at 12:24 AM