2009 January | The Road Home

Adventures with the tripod

The day needed a bit of adventure and some color. I set off in my brightest jacket and scarf, on snowshoes, with Karl, camera and tripod, intending to get a photo of Karl and I with the mountains in the background…

When I trained Karl, I taught hand signals as well as voice commands. Those last 2 photos – crouched down and arms to the side is the “Come” signal for Karl. Usually he comes running…

The tripod was apparently off-putting. He has figured out that it means he has to do something and do it for a long time, while I run back and forth like a crazy person. He opted out of participating this day.

So, it is me with the mountains in the background.

Karl waited patiently out of the fray. As soon as I put the tripod away, he trotted over to the photo venue all waggy-tail. I don’t know where he gets the “I’m just going to do what I want to do and that’s it” behavior…

Big Sky

There are days when the sky here looks as if it were painted with water colors – soft, smudged clouds against a pale blue sky. Yesterday was that kind of day.

A special hello to Ms. Moser’s class in Louisiana! The class has been looking in on From the Front Porch as they study things like freezing point and melting point, and what life is like in the northern part of the United States where Karl, Bob and I live, compared to the southern part of the United States where they live. Thank you to the class for the wonderful photo saying hello to Karl, Bob and I!