Black and White – Page 81 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

black dog

only dog on the ferry

Peleg and Desire

grave yard — Beech Grove Cemetery, Westport, MA

honk for peace

honks for peace — the faithful, January 2016.

bare trees

waning moon bare trees — peace

lapdog

lapdog — Rio, dog of mystery. The dictionary defines lapdog:

1-: a small dog that may be held in the lap
2 : a servile dependent or follower

Rio understands and controls many things. Definition #1 applies.

don’t ask don’t tell

Matilda, one ear back, eating something

unseasonably warm

Riverside street,people and dogs, woolen mills chapel — Ansel, Eva, Rio and Tilly take the humans for a walk.

morning

Helen, Ansel, Matilda, Bill, Emma and Rio. on the front stairs of the Starkes house.

It’s morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.–Mary Oliver

ducks in a row

“to have one’s ducks in a row” is an idiom meaning to have all one’s preparations done or arranged before beginning an activity or project, and the phrase is thought to have arisen by allusion to a mother duck leading her ducklings in an orderly single file. In my original column I noted that the phrase was first attested in print in 1979, but it has since been found in a Washington Post article from 1932.–Word Detective

One of my sister’s favorite phrases.

whassup

UVA Lawn — I did not live on the Lawn.