Oh Deer

When I was coming back from downtown yesterday, I took a tiny little detour, through gnome town. At least, that's what I think of it as. I'm fairly sure this is where the local gnomes and elves must live. Maybe even a fairy or two. Or a witch - or even three. Or perhaps, Goldilocks may even be in one of the bedrooms, snoozing away, while the bears are out taking their daily walk, waiting for their porridge to cool. What a surprise they'll all have when they get home.

This is one of my favorite detours, and I haven't been by there, in much too long. I've always loved these little gnome homes (after all, there's gnome place like home - I can't believe I had to come back to add that, it is so really, terribly bad, but it's so awful that I had to share it with somebody - and K. is asleep, he doesn't know how lucky he is to have missed out on that) - anyway, I love this litle courtyard of these tiny houses and I've always wished I could take a peek inside. Though maybe I'm better off not doing that - it might dispell their mystery...As long as I don't know for certain what that looks like - anything and anyone could be inside. Once you've seen the flat screen TV, the washer and dryer, the barco loungers, the microwave - all the magic and illusion is gone. I wonder if that's what Goldilocks thought, when she saw the table where the porridge was too hot or too cold, or when Baby Bear's chair broke just when she sat down. She probably thought it would all be so much better than that, when she'd seen it from the outside. Or at least she probably thought that they'd have sturdier furniture than that...They were bears, for pete's sake...how long did they really expect that chair to hold up a growing baby bear, if it couldn't even hold a little girl?

After leaving gnome town, and heading towards home, I caught some wild animals...though that may have just been my imagination working over time. At least at the moment I saw them, I thought this tree looked as though it had animals in it, a deer and, what - a wolf? Or was it a bear? Yes, a bear, I think. They seemed to be looking at the deer caught up on the weathervane overhead, so I clicked a quick photo, to capture them all, before they could run away, or fly off into the sky.

It may be quite a stretch of the imagination - can you see them? or is it only me? - but the image made me smile. It was my brief respite from typing that day. Though come to think of it, perhaps I might have been better off, just taking a nap like Goldilocks. Only at home, in my own bed.

I have been typing away these past couple of days - a typing fool on a storytelling bender, just making things up off the top of my head, right and left. Pulling storythreads out of my empty pockets, spinning them and trying to weave them together, as best I can, into potboiler holders or some such or other. Though you can probably tell from this babbling post, I think it has taken its toll just a bit - but somehow it may be worth it yet - at least it seems to be paying off in the word count (I'm not under any illusion that this is anything but the roughest kind of draft at this point - just a story of some sort, one with a beginning, middle and ending - and with enough words in it).  At this very late moment, on Monday night - oops, can't believe it's this late - well, almost Tuesday morning, now -- I'm at 43,804 words. So all is not lost...except maybe some sleep...

Only a few more days of this, and then I won't mention NaNoWriMo again - at least for awhile.

Comments

[artzyjudie]

Yep! I see them. The bear has a snarly nose (skeery), and the deer has ornaments in his antlers. It's a bear watching a deer watching Rudolph, right? I should have gnome you would see those in the treetops!

44,000 words? That's wonderful! Congrats! Now, when do we get to read the story?

[gemma]

Yep...see the deer in the trees. The south end of a north bound deer.
:-)

[bella]

I love these pictures! They hold a story, a big fantasy of a story.

[Janet]

Love the gnome houses! You're probably right....seeing inside might spoil the fantasy. It's most likely regular ol' human beings who reside there.

You do have an imagination! A deer and a bear! Yep....you're right.

[Kai]

What a lovely fantasy story Tinker.. I love the imagination and sharing.. I see a bear..

lol..PEace, Kai xx

[Paris Parfait]

Hooray for you and the progress you're making! And thanks for the little tour - enchanted! xoxox

[MissKoolAid]

Phew! So I'm _not_ the only one seeing animals where there aren't suppose to be any! You sure gnome how to make a girl laugh! (see I'm bad at this too!) I loved the photographs. They tell a story. And speaking of story, congrats on making it this far on Nano! We're almost there. I can see the finish line... can you?
*hugs*
Sophie

[Pacian]

Looks more like a rabbit to me.

(You've almost made it to 50,000!)

[Carmen]

Very lovely!
Jim will tell you about me: Please don't encourage her.
LOL

[gel]

I've always enjoyed your writing as much as your art. They compliment each other so well. I'm rooting for you to make it to 50K!

(((Tinker))

[Cre8Tiva]

your gonna make it soon...we are rooting for you...blessings, rebecca

[elsa]

yes! i see them! i see the bear and the deer! great perception of a chance discovery.

i am rooting for you on nanowrimo and i think K would have loved "theres no gnome place like home". i do! or it for sure would make him/her? smile! i am.

i am rooting for you

[somepinkflowers]

i like how you set your challenge
and
are keeping at it...

:-)

what is your next one
once the month ends?

[miss*R]

I can see the deer! that is the first thing I saw when I came to your blog!

[Ray]

What are you like Tinker? In free-flow and no wonder given your amazing word total!!!!! I AM envious. Haven't put pen to paper in AGES!!! Yes I see your animals in the trees and on the weather vane. Pretty good that you managed to capture them! Do you think this year's book will be published??? And if not WHY NOT????????????
Would LOVE to read some of what you've written!!!! lol xxx Ray