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An autumn to remember - Merrell contest entryby ~keniakittykat

Contests / 2012 / Merrell Diorama Contest

Made in a small shoebox with construction paper, sate sticks, and glue.
I dropped these down the stairs the other day and it's still completely in tact, so it's way sturdier than it looks!
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This memory is a very dear one to me.
It was November of 1997 and the FOS scoutung group (From Flanders Belgium, an open non-religious branch of scouts) celebrated its 90th anniversary.
To celebrate, every single division of the fos scouting group held a 3 day weekend to be together, meet the other groups and just have fun.

The colors of the trees and people aren't coincidence. Since I couldn't use logo's or copyrighted symbols I couldn't include the scarves, so I just made everyone's color into a tree and gave the persons the color of their groups.

In order from left to right:
(In case you wondered, here's a chart showing all the colors: [link])
S. in orange, She was from the Mountains and Woods Scouts
T. in Yellow, She was from the Beachcomber's Scouts
Me in Blue, I was from the Sea Scouts
L. His scouts colors were tan purple and grey, so that makes pale pink: He was from the Rover crofts group.

And finally, not depicted but represented is M. The magenta tree. He was from the wood walkers Scouts. I recently found out he has passed away, I represented him only as a tree, and a small bush representing his son. I placed the almost bare orange tree in front of his so it symbolizes he is no longer here.

(The pale pink bush represents L.'s daughter.)

Another reason why he's only represented as a tree is because I have a picture of us from that weekend standing in this particular pose. As you can see is L. standing right in front of him, so I couldn't really make out what he looked like, and knowing he was gone, I just couldn't bring myself to stare at it longer than I had to.

We held contact for years, and one of them remained one of my closest friends.

It truly was an autumn to remember...