my huckleberry friend

He and I went for a picnic on the River Thames in Richmond on Monday afternoon. White chocolate strawberries and cheese and crackers filled our bellies while we floated under willows and sat by water flowers. His deathly fear of birds made our river adventure a little risky, a couple of times our boat was rocked ever so slightly by a startled Swede jumping at the sound of a passing duck but we survived. Just.