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Friday, July 29, 2011

August Monthly Challenge Theme: Reptiles Rock


August 2011

Monthly Challenge Theme:

Reptiles Rock



Show your love for your favorite reptile... be it turtle, snake, or lizard... by entering August’s Monthly Challenge: Reptiles Rock !!


Here is a famous poem by Emily Dickinson for some inspiration…



A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS


A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides--
You may have met Him--
did you not
His notice sudden is--

The Grass divides as with a Comb--
A spotted shaft is seen--
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on--

He likes a Boggy Acre
A Floor too cool for Corn--
Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot--
I more than once at Noon

Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled, and was gone--

Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me--
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality--

But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter breathing
And Zero at the Bone--



What an awe-inspiring affect snakes have on us!

So what are you waiting for?

Let’s see your take on “Reptiles Rock”!


Simply tag your entries “teamefareptiles” without the quotation marks and convo them to Jessicalynneart. We are now taking entries until August 7th!


Remember, when we've received sixteen qualifying entries they will be entered in our Challenge Competition where the winner will get a free one month advertising slot on either the EFA website or the Challenge blog, winner’s choice, for the following month!



For further information on August’s Monthly Challenge... check out this link: http://www.etsy.com/teams/6354/efa-etsy-for-animals/discuss/8740252/



Thanks !
Heather of TheBlueWindmill