Friday Dogs: Pecan

Pecan (aka "Peekers") is a smelly, adventurous mutt who thoroughly enjoys her life on a farm. Her favorite hobbies are eating things and rolling in things — the smellier and more rotten the better — as well as occasionally enhancing her perfume with skunk spray.

She takes commands very well, though, which helps her to keep out of dangerous situations, and is so affectionate that her bids for your attention can be downright pushy. But really, how could you say no to a face like that?

Breathe Out

A little doodle plus some minor digital bits:

S/He's meditating. :)

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If I had wings

I was browsing through the official website of one of my favorite artists, Keith Haring, and found a quote from an interview that I just loved. Haring was working on an art project with kids in Chicago, and one of the kids wrote on the mural, "I WOULD FLY IF I HAD WINGS AND SOMEWHERE TO FLY." I almost cried; as a kid I regularly fantasized about flying away, but outgrew the habit when I realized that there really wasn't anywhere for me to escape to.

Whether that was the actual implication behind that Chicago kid's art installation, I don't know. I hope not. But there's nothing wrong with being wistful every now and then.

Friday Dogs: Casey

Casey lives with my friends Tiff and Joni in Superior, WI. She has a sensitive heart, a territorial streak, and a gentle, feel-things-out-along-the-way approach to most people and situations (the main exception to this being strange dogs, at whom she immediately barks if they don't approach right away to say hi).

Two-toned noses, along with one-ear-up-one-ear-down, are one of my favorite features in dogs.

Casey is rather enamored with Rufus. I love this photo because her leash looks almost as though it was Photoshopped in.