Showing posts with label dog days of summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog days of summer. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2013

Dog Days



When the sun has parched
the earth
till the grasses are crisp,
and the bees are too stupified
with heat
to buzz the blossoms,
the dog yard is tenanted
by blissful furry bodies
as the dog days of summer
slowly unfurl
the twisting spool
of lazy days
and blessed, cooling
nights. 

[Note to dog lovers: dont forget to bring the critters inside during the hot summer afternoons.]



posted for Margaret's prompt at Real Toads : the dog days of summer

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Dog Days of Late Summer


Our weather is rather spectacular these days, and it is going on for weeks and weeks. In fact, it is so warm and dry that some major rivers, needed for the salmon spawn, have dried up. It is hard not to enjoy the sunshine, though, knowing the gray skies will close in at some point and will not lift till April.


We took the dogs for a swim this aft, to their delight. 


Jasmine is super-competitive. Stick or kong thrown, she will drown her brother, in her quest to claim it. If Lukey (occasionally) gets it first, she glides up to him like a crocodile, 


shoves her snout along the stick right up against his muzzle, and they get


stuck, until Lukey gives up.



Then they come ashore, and 


wait again, till Lukey gives up :) He is the sweet-natured guy on the left.
My Jasmine is the obsessive-compulsive crocodile.



Young Blakey prefers to chase his own, smaller stick.


Lori's attempts to get certain dogs to stay still long enough for a photo.
It's exactly like taking photos of small squirmy children -
it's a crap-shoot. (Almost literally,
come to think of it!)



Moment of reverie.....the blue water.....
the blue, blue hills.



Noey, our elder-dog, playing it cool.