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Week 20: Eyes - Griffin

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Submitted by ggevalt on March 13, 2007 - 11:20.

Jillian Griffin of Mount Mansfield High School on her picture: The bright sun shines gaily over the blueberry farm. Children run around, dancing to the music of the bagpipes echoing over the hills. The farm, set on a steep hillside, seems timeless — except for the cars in the parking lot at the bottom, it seems like history has passed by without touching the little farm nestled in the side of a mountain in rural Vermont. Read more.

My two brothers race each other through the many rows of blueberries, each hiding by cowering under various bushes so as not to be tagged by the other. I have brought my camera to take pictures of my last annual blueberry-picking event before I go off to college next fall. I find my 11-year-old brother hiding. “Don't take my picture, you’ll give me away!” Jonathan cries as I hold the camera at his eye level on the ground.

I laugh as I take the picture anyway, quickly running away to a different row so I won’t give his hiding place away to my 9-year-old brother. It doesn’t work — Christopher finds Jonathan within a minute, clued to where Jonathan is by my speedy dash away from the random row where I had seemingly popped up from the ground.

Later Jonathan tries to get me to delete the picture - he thinks the picture looks “silly.” But that’s exactly why I like it — it is silly, and it makes me laugh each time I look at it.. It’s a good way to remember yet another year of fun times at the blueberry farm.

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