last saturday i traveled to kelso, washington to meet the amazing breeders at voyager eskies & poms…and to meet the new eskie puppies — one of which will be coming home with me in less than a month.
to be honest i was a bit nervous when i got there because while i grew up with dogs, i was never instrumental in training them and, as i’ve recently learned from reading cesar’s way, have never learned how to display that calm assertive energy that lets a dog know who is pack leader.
who's the boss?
yet once i was there and in the presence of these tiny little snowballs, all of my nerves melted away! what friendly, curious, beautiful pups.
eskie...or polar bear
i get the feeling that i am about to get schooled.
i was a goner!
once i left their home in kelso, i decided to go adventuring to the southwest washington coast. it was a gorgeous day and i followed the setting sun to long beach, where i discovered the skeleton of a gray whale, around the same spot that mr. clark (of lewis and clark) would have found a similar skeleton back at the beginning of the 19th century.
gray whale on long beach
the rest of the evening i spent traipsing along the beaches
i followed my feet to the beach
and marshes,
oysterville is much prettier than it sounds
photographing seagulls
silly-gulls
and water
beach ripples
and flowers
flowers of fall
and photo-ready landscapes,
boat in the marsh
doing my best to capture the tiny miracles that were presented all around me, so naturally, so quietly, just waiting to be dicovered.
it was a sparkling evening, and it left me feeling full of hope.
moon over the marsh
