14.08.20 Beware The Whining Scarecrow and The last Straw!

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Friday 14th 58-80F and misty. The heatwave is expected to continue for the next four days. A walk across the newly harvested prairies to capture different viewpoints badly. The mist was short lived and merely made my fuzzy images look badly out of focus.

The trained duck spotters spotted me and the Identikit flock immediately retired to a hidden corner of the pond. I retreated up the hill slightly and sat down to wait for any signs of progress. Snapping away at intervals just in case the slightest movement was the last I'd ever see of them. What avid, wildlife photographers usually describe as "a total cluster duck" when things are far too quiet.

Two hours before lunch I rode a couple of miles to another pond to photograph the Grebes. Two hours later I rode home again with hundreds of images. It was absolutely delightful sitting in the quiet of the countryside, in the shade of huge trees while watching water birds doing their thing. I was also being entertained by large red dragonflies.

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The Scarecrow, in the Land of U$, is terrified of water shortages for his straw thatch. "I shan't be re-elected if its not absolutely perfect!" He whines on and on. As the streets are filled with Rainbow masks. As millions protest against mass shootings, routine police brutality and his own tax evasion, sexism, misogyny, assault, extra marital affairs, climate denial, pandemic denial, illegal invitations to commit violence and his overt racism.

167,000 dead [and counting] to his "slight flu and soon over." Remember his delusional advice on ineffective cures? Like injecting the entire U$ population with swimming pool disinfectant? Or not wearing a mask because it spoilt the lie of the tied&dyed straw over his ears? 

The Whining Scarecrow is is now said to be completely distraught over his thinning, straw thatch. So much so that he has Lukashenko's "Re-election for Dummies" on constant, audio-book replay in the Runaround Office. With unplugged, Metal Wagner lilting in the background.

He has given up attending his endlessly rehearsed, photo ops. thinly disguised as electioneering promos. To show off his shining, straw thatch to his carefully picked audience of "decorative," female, news hacks. "Who all know how to behave like proper [white] ladies!" It seems one of them got a bit uppity at The Scarecrow's repeated lies and gently raised the subject. Despite her being "just another bloody woman." "A very nasty one" according The Scarecrow's very own memoires. Tentatively entitled: "Wot I Wrote Large!"

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