I meet many dogs in our village. This is a Lhasa Apso named
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| Billy |
He gives me my first link to our prompt for this week.
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| Billie Holiday with a dog |
One dog which always has a place in our heart belonged to my wife's sister but resided with her mother in the 1950s. He has appeared on my Sepia posts before, but deserves another outing.
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| Major |
Now when we go on holiday we always get involved with dogs - and they regard it as a holiday too. These two we didn't know but they loved a Cornish beach.
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| Paddling on Crantock beach |
My daughter's dogs in Michigan always look on it as a holiday when we are there. One of them was always content to practise his favourite sport alone.
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| Cody fishing for frogs |
Buster however was always impatient when we took him out in Caranton Woods in Cornwall.
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| Come on you two. Keep up! |
The dog park near my daughter's home was a place her dogs always loved. It meant that they could dive in and climb out up a ramp.
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| Cody, Scout, Lily and Gem after a swim off the jetty |
Of course there was also the ever present tennis ball to play with, if Cody didn't wander off to look for a treat by sitting down at somebody's holiday picnic spread.
Scout was named after the girl in Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' even although he is a boy.
It seems appropriate somehow to finish this post with him on the day that the death of Harper Lee is announced.
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| Scout - at rest |
RIP Harper Lee.
To check how others have interpreted the prompt this week stroll over to the links at Sepia-Saturday-318.
