map of a land I'd like to visit

[asakiyume]

I realized that the charming watermelon I'd bought at a farm stand came with a map imprinted on its rind--I guess all watermelons do; how did I not notice?



It's a map of a wetland, rivers threading through buoyant land--the dark green is the rivers, the light green is the land, but you can see how streamlets are woven right into the land. You can travel by boat along the rivers, and the marshgrass is so high no one will see you the next river over.

Watermelons keep these maps on their rinds because they are water melons.

Comments

[sovay]

Watermelons keep these maps on their rinds because they are water melons.

I like this very, very much.

[asakiyume]

I'm very glad. It was probably partly because of your salt-marsh post that I noticed this map.

[osprey_archer]

I just bought a watermelon at a farmstand today! Synchronicity!!

Also, the watermelon-marshland sounds like a good setting for a story.

[asakiyume]

Synchronicity!! Love it.

It is definitely a good place for a story--but it's one I want to actually *be in* as opposed to write (though that could change...)

[rachelmanija]

I love this and feel that there's a story in it.

[asakiyume]

So many stories! As I was saying to osprey_archer, though, right now I mainly just want to be there, poling my craft through the narrow waterways--that's where my mind is when I look at the watermelon map.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yes, my mind was transported right away to a story of mine where part of the world has a setting very much like a watermelon-rind map. I haven't touched the story in years, yet reading your description, I was right there in it, smelling it, feeling it, hearing it... :D

[asakiyume]

I know I would love that story <3 <3 <3

[sartorias]

I never thought of those patterns that way, but you are RIGHT!

[asakiyume]

Right?! I never did before today either. It probably has to do with (a) reading sovay's salt-marsh entry and (b)an episode of The Last Kingdom we saw last night in which much of the action took place in a salt marsh--those things made me see it.

[pameladean]

That is JUST what those are! Now I want a watermelon, but then I'd have to eat it.

P.

[asakiyume]

but then I'd have to eat it --there are worse fates?

[pameladean]

Indeed there are; and in fact, if somebody else preps the watermelon, I'll eat it happily enough. It's just that by the time I've done wrestling with it, I just want to take a shower and eat a bag of potato chips instead.

P.

[kore]

This is such a perfect little story!

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I took two more photos of the marvelous watermelon maps, because needless to say, as you turn the melon, you see new rivers and routes!

[mallorys_camera]

Love, love, love this! 😀

[asakiyume]

:D :D :D

I'm very, very glad.

[minoanmiss]

I so love how you think. *contemplates the watermelon*

[asakiyume]

Travels in the Watermelon Wetlands --A travelogue we can all enjoy.

[anna_wing]

You are so right! Most watermelons here are plain dark green or very clearly striped, so I hadn't realised it before. These splotchy ones aren't common.

[asakiyume]

Okay so maybe I hadn't been overlooking them all these years! Maybe this particular variety is special this way!

[anna_wing]

I will look more closely at the next striped one that I meet! Perhaps it is a matter of scale...

[asakiyume]

If you think of it, report back what you find!

[cmcmck]

Fruits and veggies are always worth exploring for detail! :o)

[asakiyume]

Truth :-)

[amaebi]

Don't follow the drinking gourd-- follow the watermelon!

[asakiyume]

I shall follow the watermelon!