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February 20, 2006

water baby

Her kayak glided silently through the Wisconsin back water stream. The only sound was the occasional gurgle of water when she dipped and pulled her paddle through the clear emerald tinted liquid.

I wondered to myself what her thoughts might be - a special boy perhaps, or maybe an upcoming event with her girl friends.

Maybe she was focusing on the faint sound of knocking by some Red Bellied Woodpecker far away downstream searching for yummy beetles in the bark of silver maple trees. Or could she be anticipating the view of the beaver lodge under the huge willow that she knew lay up ahead and around the bend.

I could not resist capturing the moment and the click of my camera broke her thoughts. She turned around and rewarded me with a look of extreme annoyance and disaproval.

To gain her forgiveness, I had to promise to put the camera away and not snap another photo of her for the rest of the trip.

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