Bear is 7 today … Happy Birthday dear Bear!
Sunday morning woods
Sunday morning woods.
…with Bear.
…with Bear and morning light.
Sunday morning woods.
With Bear.
a Saturday in October
This photo…serendipity…
On the way to town I drove into a nursery…the entrance on a kind of blind curve.
But, I was too early, the nursery opened 30 minutes later.
I turned around in the lot and before getting back on the highway…the clouds and the light and the snow…and the birds: serendipty!
Another day of spectacular light.
Bear with me in the Jeep, we had a walk, fueled the Jeep, got groceries and other supplies.
We were home just before noon. Bear ran the property while I unloaded and put away.
Then…worn out from the morning and asleep in his chair, all supplies put away….Bob and I had our time…on the front porch.
Low tech pen and paper…I sat and thought and made my list for the rest of the weekend:
clean floors
roast tomatoes
roast cauliflower
cabbage soup
pesto mac n cheese
pot of beans
wild rice for this week…
Later.
Some of the list done.
Bob inside for a nap.
Bear and I outside. Gray skies. Drizzle.
The beardog patrols the property.
A Fall afternoon. The larch are lightening.
a Saturday…in October.
Relaxing
Bob has never had any issues with relaxing…
…even with the annoying interruption of photo taking!
Although Bear has only recently begun relaxing in the yard…in the house he’s got it down pat!!
Beardog sweet spot
There are times when Bear does things that are so like Karl that I just stop breathing, literally losing my breath.
It is an odd reaction so sudden and overpowering.
It has just been in the last two weeks that Bear has taken to lying down in the yard after we’ve walked or played.
Just relaxing, watching, sniffing without needing to be always on the move in the woods.
And today, he found Karl’s favorite overlook: the spot behind and to the south of the house – the spot that looks over the game trail and to the road. My chair is not far away. In the house, from the sunroom where my office is, or the kitchen, I could see Karl and now Bear.
Beardog sweet spot.