Tag: Photography

White

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White is so cooling in a garden, especially on very hot summer days.

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White offers a place for the eyes to rest – a break from all the hot yellows, oranges and reds of an August garden.

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White dogs are just as cool in the garden –

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or elsewhere.

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The come in all shapes and sizes,

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offering up their love,

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affection,

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or just a helping hand.

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One white dog had an especially sweet “going home” this weekend – turning her seventh birthday into her first “gotcha day.”

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Earned after years of birthing puppies, and currently recovering from double knee surgery,

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Olivia has found her forever home.

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White. A color without hue…

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but plenty of heart.

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Dog Days of Summer

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At 10PM, it is still sweltering. The air thick and stifling. Our beloved Delta Breeze has abandoned us. Nothing moves unless it has to. These are the dog days of summer. The sunflower droops,

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The Dahlia says “these puny petals are all that I can muster.”

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The bees do their work as early as possible in the day,

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And everyone would rather perch than fly.

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But give a dog a little pool,

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Or puppies a spray of water,

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And somehow they find a way.

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A few more days of century-plus weather.

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Nothing to do but wait it out – and pine for it next winter.

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“The magic fades too fast
the scent of summer never lasts…”
― Sanober Khan