dogs – Page 4 – Black and White

Matilda

dog at the table — Tilly joined me and E for a celebratory dinner last night. Tilly is six years old.

Road trip

new skete — Cambridge NY, New Skete

puppy hand — Picked up a puppy

puppy on leash — German police, Monsa, little dog…

target truck — dogs are mentioned in the bible four times

puppy nap — there is a symbiosis, trust, that can be cultivated between dogs and people

Hazelton PA — halfway between Cambridge and Charlottesville, walking on the outskirts of Hazelton PA

What’s up with the suffix kill? (B.Gordon answers: “A kill is a body of water, most commonly a creek, but also a tidal inlet, river, strait, or arm of the sea. The term is derived from the Middle Dutch kille (kil in modern Dutch), meaning “riverbed” or “water channel”.)

backseat — Matilda rode in the backseat with E

river bridge — Susquehanna sunset

puppy foreground — Tilly visiting E a week later

walking the dog

Once a year we walk this beach.

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The past few years there has been a noticeable amount of insect and weather damage to trees where we walk

crazier than my dog

Elephant Rock swimmer, 45 degree ambient temp. Massachusetts south shore

Tilly swam in the Rivanna December 25 but January 6 is having nothing to do with the great white pool.

Vineyard

Looking for Barack.

Tilly and Eva

two dogs

Excerpt from BURNT NORTON
(No. 1 of ‘Four Quartets’)
by T.S. Eliot
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.
And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.

old dog

Madison County — How I would like to have the old pack assembled. All at once, with all their people

Lees Ridge — Photo by Edwin Levick

Dogs on the Furniture?

Trigg dogs BH 1976 — A controversial issue, should dogs be allowed on the furniture? Are they best kept on a chain in the yard? On the floor?

Sophie and John — How does the dog feel? Insecure? Unsure?

Sophie and HP — Accepted, loved?

EG and Sophie — How long is life? Is propriety more important than sentience? Do you know your place? What does the dog think?

road trip

dog — West Virginia welcome center. I-81

Yeocomico

Yeocomico River
Tree, Matilda, people, dock, river, sunset