Holiday Dogs - Sepia Saturday

I meet many dogs in our village. This is a Lhasa Apso named 

Billy

He gives me my first link to our prompt for this week.

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.

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.

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.

Cody fishing for frogs

Buster however was always impatient when we took him out in Caranton Woods in Cornwall.

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.

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.

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.

What's for dinner? - Thematic Photography

The title of Carmi's theme this week may make you hungry and ask 'What's for dinner?'

When you have been on holiday in the sun there are times when you can hardly wait for dining room doors to open.

A sunburned father and daughter

 However some people like getting friendly with the chef.

Cyprus buffet

But really all she wanted to know was which items had garlic in them.

However, for me, there's nothing like a spot of home cooking (not by me).

Plated up

The dish comprises

• Mashed potatoes and squash
• Cauliflower, broccoli, mangetout and carrots, all in cheese sauce
• Roast English lamb, not forgetting the gravy

There are those when they have done a hard day's work and have been for a swim who would wolf down anything.

Jack - still in his life jacket

Mind you have to be careful how you say d-i-n-n-e-r in the vicinity of any Labrador and not just Jack.

To find out what others have on their plates (or in their bowls) you need to pop over to Thematic-photographic-220 and ask "What's for dinner?"