Black and White – Page 20 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Thanksgiving date

dog and fake dog — bringing the trial significant other to the Thanksgiving table for provisional butt sniff. Always traumatic.

Riverview Park

dog in full enthrallment — Morning walk, Riverview Park

Rainbow Tilly

dog linoleum — My dog likes crayons. Really, what could go wrong?

“We have ensured that our products are safe since 1903, when we first began offering crayons. All Crayola and Silly Putty products have been evaluated by an independent toxicologist and found to contain no known toxic substances in sufficient quantities to be harmful to the human body, even if ingested or inhaled.”–Crayola

Pruning

dog — Not snow yet, pruning saw dust

Long shadows, short days

man and dog shadow — 10:05 day length

Puppy class

puppy class — All Things Pawssible

flames

flames — burning hydrocarbons

shadow dancing

puppy cavorts — loving every day.

George Bannister’s house

1979 photo by ATL — Annette Sherman and friends from the Wake Forest neighborhood

Odocoileus virginianus

white tailed deer — Tilly had her first close encounter with a wild ungulate by the Rivanna river last week. Tilly didn’t give chase. Something I didn’t know about deer? “Though almost entirely herbivorous, white-tailed deer have been known to opportunistically feed on nesting songbirds, field mice, and birds trapped in mist nets, if the need arises.”–Wikipedia