dogs – Page 4 – Black and White

irrepressible

April and littermates were found in a cardboard box next to Route 22 in Louisa County. She never accepted the idea that a human could walk next to her on a leash. Nantucket sleighride, chaos, joy.

in the garden

stl grand-dog

cove

boathouse

morning circumambulation

calm center of universe

orchid, bur oak — kitchen window at night. bur oaks soon to be planted.

magnolia matrix

. driven by, confronting and answering the ever present question. Is it edible?

Two dogs and a Bear

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Drank from a stream, walked in deep water, rolled in cow dung. The dogs did. A good day.

memory

my father planted daffodils next to the starkes’ 1890 silver maple in 1990. 2025 the starkes and my dad are gone. Their plantings remain.

Charlotte and the big dog

no one outruns the dog in a short foot race

Gray Emory Coale

who do you love, what do you love, do what you love

impossible to overstate the transience of the present moment
do what you love
now