The Camping Trip

Exploring Jesmond Rd and Deadman-Vidette Rd

The camping trip was surprisingly snowy for a time. I was grateful for my shaggy fur coat.              Forest, pines, sage, mountains, streams,  lakes, meadows, ranches, rocky cliffs, waterfalls, red dirt, hoodoos, cows, bluebird, deer, horses, larkspur, coyotes, tanager, momma bear and baby. Exploration is a feast for the senses.

When the snow was done, we got to have the mud. Howie and I didn't care. We just love to GO!

The campfire sculpture is pleasing to the eye and to the soggy body of a tired pup.

casual

The casual life is the life for me.

Projects, schedules, deadlines,
phone, fax, email,
reports, meetings,
planning, implementing,
going, coming,
people, machines.
Human words, every one.

Fetch, chase, nap
kibble, cookies, bones,
hiking, sniffing,
outside, inside,
belly rubs, play.
Words of a pup,
living life well.

sweet

Spring flowers have arrived again. A lot of them are yellow. This one caught my eye...and my nose!

I was on a trail with the humans, when we arrived at this wetland. I was curious about the yellow spikes poking out of the mud and water. The flower is unusual and has a familiar smell. It reminds me of a smell I've noticed from a culvert in a ditch. We didn't pick any, so the vase on the kitchen table remains empty.

Howie and the volcano

April 18
Pyramid Mt. trail, Wells Gray Park
2 hr return

soft trail
shady woods
spring melt puddles
hot and dry on the volcano
no people, no leash

2 paws up (1 paw if Howie wasn't here!)

Howie, my hiking friend

Valleys splash and breathe,

their secrets to sniff

Ridges and peaks

are stages won

Puddles, ponds cool and quench

A trail winds up, around

holding it's promise to us,

the ones who go.

happy days

Here are my humans and the kids that I'm always talking about. When they're not on the shelf, they're full of coffee, tea or mocha.

I got my fur cut off at the "spa". They cut off my toe nails and dug around in my ears. I feel like a brand new pup!

Sat. March 20, 2010

Moul Falls Trail

Wells Gray Prov. Park

6k return

an easy walk in the park

muddy

blow down for jumping over

some small easy hills

a creek

not many hikers

trail treats

no leash for me, yahoo!

1 paw up

I found these yummy looking treats along the trail. They are left behind by the Easter moose and the Easter deer....no bunny here.

patterns

Mother Nature has a way

of doing magic every day

Her snow has gone and left behind

patterns that just blow my mind

Her waves of winter sculpt the grass

Her icy breath etches glass

Staight gray, trunks lining the sky

straigh gray V of geese honks by

Nature keeper, magicain, maker of art

Mother Nature's creations sing in my heart

Pups love poetry!

neighbours

When I'm at the cabin, I've got lots of neighbours. They aren't all humans and dogs.

This is one of my neighbours. This deer sometimes sleeps in the yard. I've seen it having dinner in the yard too. It leaves behind small pointy hoof prints and little chocolate covered raisins. I haven't tried one yet, but I plan to.



Sometimes there are a group of deer and they have a quiet, conservative party in the yard. When I decide the party is over, I bark ferociously and they scatter. I wouldn't say I'm a party pooper, I just don't want things getting out of hand with the deer.





We had a party at our house last night. Lola the Goddess was here and Uncle Smudge. The kids came over too. The humans ate food, talked and had wine. While they were being bored, the rest of us pups, wrestled, played chase, fetch, tug-of-war, and chewed on toys. We had naps and went outside. Here is the score on party animals: humans-0, dogs-1.