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May 28th, 2009
Hate to repeat myself, but, again, this was taken at the Mason District dog park. Yes, there are a few dogs down there…if you’d rather see them instead of the sky, go here. Want to see other skies? Go to SkyWatch Friday and find skies from all over the world. While you’re there, why not leave a link to your own skies so all can enjoy?
Thanks to Lana over at The Dreaming Tree for turning me on to SkyWatch Friday.
May 26th, 2009
The past few days have been so humid that poor Lucy has slowed considerably. She really dislikes heat and humidity and here, she took off after a ball, but reconsidered and headed for the shade. She’s a whole lot smart.
And I guess it’s no fun hangin’ out with us, so Lucy sticks close to the park flies and some new friends. Of course she’s always in the middle of it all…and close to the water bowls.
May 23rd, 2009
Last week, while travelling by train and bothered by the surrounding chatter, I turned to my laptop and ended up finding music that I didn’t even know I had. Technically challenged, I have a strange disconnect with my own laptop—many underutilized features there. Desperate for good sounds, I came across Jefferson Airplane’s 2400 Fulton Street: An Anthology. My obssessive self has been listening to it every day since. Most of the songs I know, but haven’t heard in a very long time, and I’d forgotten how good they are. I’m particularly fond of a few of the more haunting tunes such as Today, Pretty as You Feel and Comin’ Back to Me. It just happens that before I left for my trip, W unearthed a handful of my old ticket stubs—tickets from almost every movie theater in the Alexandria area (that you’ll no doubt see in future posts…ahhh, livin’ in the past), as well as a few concert tickets from the old Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland. A Jefferson Starship stub was among them. Mistakenly thinking I had seen Jefferson Airplane, I did a little investigation to see just how the change to Starship came about. It seems that when Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of the Jefferson Airplane spin-off group, Hot Tuna, showed no interest in coming together again, rhythm guitarist and singer, Paul Kantner, decided to form a band without them and named the altered unit Jefferson Starship. Consisting of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship started rehearsals in January 1974 and kicked off their first tour in Chicago in March of the same year. By the time I saw them in October, they had just released their album Dragon Fly. Read more on Jefferson Starship here. If you’re interested, have a listen at my playlist—I couldn’t find all my favorites, but found most, though I really wish Pretty as You Feel were among them…
May 22nd, 2009
For the past week Lucy has periodically stood vigil here, where a family of birds has taken up residence in the loft of our birdhouse. Built by my grandfather sometime in the 50s or 60s, I never got around to hoisting it any higher than this old tree stump, but birds have still taken to its “penthouse.” When she tires of sitting, she’ll lie down beside it and sleep. What a dog.
May 20th, 2009
Some extraordinary videos of Lucy at the dog park, in the sense that she hasn’t played like this, in one session, in a long time. We have to thank Tracy, her new friend, for that, as Tracy was very persistent and didn’t give Lucy a moment’s rest. Note Lucy’s run for the water puddle…if it were a hot summer day, she would’ve landed in someone’s water bowl, a habit she’s carried with her since puppydom.
Tracy is the vocal one…
And the play ends with a round of Protect the Hole. All dogs seem to know this game, and Lucy knows it well as she’s played it with others since she was a puppy. The game’s no good unless it ends with eating the contents of said hole. Again, Tracy is the vocal one…
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