"What's this, lad? You're out in the garden early today."

"Just thought I'd try drawing your flowers, Bilbo."

"Really? Let's have a look."

"Don't you think that one of the roses turned out particularly well?"

"Frodo, lad, you can't -see- the roses in that one."

"Yes, well, the gardener's lad got in the way."

"The gardener's lad's gotten in the way of half the garden. What a quick-footed fellow he must be."

"I only wanted to capture, you know, what it really -looked- like, Bilbo."

"Well, see if you can't get the front of him just once, eh, lad?"

"Blooming" 030612 by [email protected]
Written with O. Melton
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