Within Striking Distance by leanndra

Fractal • Animals • posted on Feb 27, 2006

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I was raised on a farm. When I was a young girl, we had a blackberry patch. Rows and rows of plants. It was wonderful! We would pick them, wash them, freeze some, some my mom used to make jelly and jam. She made the absolute best blackberry pie! When the plants were loaded down with berries, my grandmother would come help us all pick them. I was around 11 or 12 I think, the summer my grandmother got bit by the copperhead snake. She had reached in under some leaves to pick some berries and it struck and bit her between her index finger and middle finger. Forty years ago there wasn't a lot they could do with a snake bite in that area of the hand. My mom grabbed a leather belt, used it as a tourniquet on my granny's arm above the elbow, and off we went to the hospital. I remember being so afraid, thinking she would die. Dr LeHew said the only thing we could do was to keep the tourniquet on her arm, but release it for five minutes out of every hour, day and night until the venom worked through her body. There was no guarantee she would survive. It was a vigil of seemingly endless days and nights. She got terribly sick. Her arm swelled horribly and turned black. But she lived! After that incident, we used lengths of wood to move the leaves of the plants before we picked the berries from the underside of the bushes. Never did see another snake there. This flame started taking shape and made me think of that incident. I love a happy ending! Don't you? Apophysis 2.03c Postwork: The Usual Suspects Thanks for coming by and leaving comments. I appreciate it so much!

Comments (18)

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artice

12:05PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

WOW! WHAT AN AVENT! YEA I DO LOVE A HAPPY ENDING..AWESOME IMAGE FOR THE THEME..LOVE THE FRAME WORK..V WOOO HOOO--THE VOTE BUTTONS WORKING AGIAN..LOL..K

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miwi

12:07PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Great story and an excellent composition;love the framing,klasse!!!!!!

Lwyland

12:14PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

I definitely wouldn't want to get bitten by that. Looks dangerous. How frightening that must have been!! Excellent rendition of your story!!! :)

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clifftoppler

12:27PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Your story changes the picture. I once found a nest of baby vipers. Strangely, I just knew they would be there. I also had to dispute the right to use a style with the odd sun-hogging creature in the early autumn. They really should learn manners! Cliff.

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grinagog

1:16PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Wow, such a cool snake Leann, and what a powerful story to go with the image! :)

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Marsille

1:50PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Beautiful!!!!! Being a farm girl myself I understand completely..

Ronnie_W_Reagan

2:51PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Right - There's some real nice shapes floating around in there

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rocserum

2:51PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

great background story, excellently illustrated. This kind of memory its one you will never forget! RS

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pickles

4:16PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

beautiful flame Leann great story too glad to hear it ended all well (v)

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npauling

5:58PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Its a great flame but its the frame that took my eye it is marvellous. Thank goodness we don't have any snakes in our country but glad your grandmother made it.

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Richardphotos

7:42PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

does look like a snake or a dragon. we had too many water moscassians where I lived as a boy. excellent flame

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gateman45

8:28PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

well done...nice story...love the post work...

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CoolBreezeLady

12:58AM | Tue, 28 February 2006

This is a very unique image and it gives me feeling of being underwater and I'm looking at this huge monster out there!!!! Get me out of here, I'm having a panic attack and being underwater in this closed in sub is making me want to strangle you for this unbelievably realistic image!!!! 8^0 LOL Where's my xanax!!!! :| AAAAHHHHH, I feel better now! :) This is one of your best so far, although you keep out doing yourself!!!

WahlCat

2:46AM | Tue, 28 February 2006

So Grandma survived the snakebite without losing her arm or her life. Awesome! And awesome scary image as well!

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