The Versesmith

 A bit of nonsense I wrote for H Day during the April A to Z Blogging Challenge, but didn't end up using. print by Terri Kupietz in author's collection Hounds! Beagles and Bassets, and baying Walkers. Deerhounds and Elkhounds and Wolfhounds so tall. A hound for each taste! A hound-dog for all!   Sight hounds, and scent hounds with long floppy ears. Low to the ground hound or tall to astound.   Hounds that hunt otters. Hounds that hunt fox. Smooth-coated. Wire-haired. Long silken locks.   There are hounds from Ibiza and Africa too. Hounds we've all heard of. Hounds quite unknown. French hounds, and Finnish,   American grown.   Hounds are a favorite, from Dachshund to Plott. Many people love hounds, so happy and jolly. I though, for my part, prefer Border Collie!   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/pittcaleb/2452677530/ Rain slickers Waterproof boots Puddle Seekers   Splash! Splash! Splash!   Picnic pests Seek drips of soda Sugar lovers   Foo! Foo! Foo!    ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved   https://www.pexels.com/photo/bee-close-up-insect-little-1342110/ An explanation of the Foo! Foo! Foo! might be helpful.   When yellow jackets (the wasps, not the puddle jumping boot wearers) would buzz around a picnic, my paternal grandfather would swear by his deterrent of, flat hand, palm down, cutting the air above the insect, and saying, "Foo, foo, foo."  Always three times the "foo."  I think it worked because the air above the yellow jacket was disturbed, so it flew away.  Temporarily.   

 QNv25  Quickly prompt:   If you have a minute or three, write four lines. Include a hat. httpspixabay.comphotoschristmas-sheep-deco-santa-hat-1910030 On this freezing morn my locks were shorn. I'm as nude as newborn Please… a hat to adorn?   ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved