The text and paintings on The Trowbridge Chronicles are taken from the illustrated journal of Violet Trowbridge, a shrew that once lived in a village deep in the Olympic Rain Forest. Each new post will represent a portion of Mrs. Trowbridge’s journal.

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Showing posts with label feast. Show all posts

Sunday, August 04, 2013

THE VICTORY FEAST



Of all the desert outposts ravaged in the battle, only Giloh held fast. Shrew Kahn and his soldiers bury their dead and begin repairing the damaged pebble fortress. Then they celebrate with a victory feast. Giloh still stands. Our story continues...

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Monday, December 12, 2011

BAGGING SOME ANTS

Though I'm separated from Mrs. Trowbridge's forest world by over 200 years, sometimes I almost feel like I know her. She seems like a long lost aunt that I knew when I was a child. When a tiny shrew darts through the tall grass near my berry patch, she flashes though my mind for a brief moment. Is this little shrew that lives in my berry bush one of Mrs. T's descendants? 

Then I snap back into reality. I'm content to know her through the record she left for us in her tiny illustrated diary. What if I hadn't broken off the North Fork Quinault River trail and hiked upstream on Wild Rose Creek eight years ago? I would have never found that little gold box on that mossy ledge beside the stream that contained her precious diary. What if... 

 
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