photo taken July 2009 • title thanks to JE
one year ago: Riding High
two years ago: Those Ears!!!!
OMG. Entries started off with a bang and it just didn’t quit.
You guys are AMAZING.
Seriously, I URGE you, if you haven’t already, to read through the comments here – they are phenomenal!
Thank you thank you thank you to all who enter,
I adore the laughs I get from you!
I usually type a short list of finalists here, but that list was
70 entries long this morning. Just go to the comment section!
I raise my glass to ALL of you – you wow me.
OK~ I’ll torture myself and type three here:
Close But No Cigar (Geez, I want to make out with your brain!)
Omnom Peringnon (isn’t it amazing how Cute Overload has totally altered the lexicon? The power of sweetness!)
“To the Land we Love and the Love we Land!” (traditional Welsh toast, I’m adopting this!)
And if you need some pure, unadulterated laughter,
read Julia’s comment. Beautiful, hilarious.
I chose the winning caption because it’s exactly how I feel: every day with Charlie is a day to celebrate. You tapped into something very personal, JE, and I couldn’t not have your words title this image!
• • • Charlie loves champagne corks. No idea why. {don’t worry! he doesn’t eat them – he just runs around with them and tosses them in the air and buries them} It’s such an odd predilection that words fail me; I cannot name this photo but to say “Charlie loves champagne corks.” And I know you out there can do far better than that.
Leave your title, caption, or Charlie-thought-bubble in the comment section of this post and you’ll be in the running for an elk antler necklace (naturally-shed, of course) upon which MC has drawn a beautiful elk track. It’s quite striking, similar to this.
☆Also!☆ I was going through this site looking for something and ended up becoming totally entranced by the older photos of Charlie I came across – some which had burned into my memory and were so great to see again and others I had totally forgotten about and were so great to see again! So I’ve added a new feature: now, under each photograph, I’ll have links to the picture I posted a year before and two years before. I did it to last week’s photos (scroll down to see what I mean). Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!
October 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
You want a glass, or straight from the bottle?
October 26th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Coyote “choo choo”
Coyote Stogie
October 26th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
“This way, my dear”.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
corky coyote ears champagne
October 26th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Bring On The Bubbly!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Vintage Charlie.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Hmmm. Hints of grapefruit and apricot layered over flavors of peaches and honey, smooth and silky on the palate.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Cain’t touch this
October 26th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Caption:
Plug Mug
October 26th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Pointing in all directions
October 26th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Point and Pinot.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Cheers to Chew Toys
October 26th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
(by the way, try saying that 10 times fast, especially while chewing on a champagne cork!)
October 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
I’m makin’ a run to the liquor store…anybody need anything?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
What?!? You needed this back?
October 27th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Party Animal
October 27th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Mmm mmm thats good
October 27th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Tastes like Chicken
October 27th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Bubbly Boy
October 27th, 2009 at 1:53 am
That Ear!!!!
October 27th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Effervescent you say?
October 27th, 2009 at 2:11 am
That Charlie, He’s a real Corker!
October 27th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Charlie says, in a smooth Rhett Butler-type voice, “Come, my dear, I have the champagne open already….”
October 27th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Laissez les bons temp rouler!
October 27th, 2009 at 7:55 am
do NOT question my drinking again
October 27th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Corkscrewloose.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Coyote pacifier.
My heart bubbles over.
Corked.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am
“Smooth talker”
I just got the necklace you referenced in the mail yesterday. It is beautiful, so I think the winner will be very pleased indeed!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:45 am
The party animal
The party is not over yet!
Something about champagne corks……!!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
He’s Too Corky For His Own Good
October 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Psst……champagne corks over that way
October 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
“Cork? What cork?”
October 27th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Sweet Goofball
October 27th, 2009 at 10:42 am
His Name’s Changed to Corky!
Too Corky, Too Cute
-or-
Too Corky, Too Goofy
(kinda like too fast, too furious) :) lol
October 27th, 2009 at 10:45 am
A corky quirk.
Coy Perignon.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am
coyote corkscrew
October 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am
“Here’s lookin at you kid” said in a Humphrey Bogart voice.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I like to let it breathe.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
My mom’s dog, Constance, started with Champagne Corks when she was just a pup. She shortly thereafter moved on to Mom’s Cork Coasters… which flew through the air quite nicely as everyone chased her down to get them back. We stopped bringing cork into the house when we came home to find that she had pulled a very large bottle off of a shelf to pry the cork out. It was full of powdered hot chocolate and mini marshmallows. She finally pried the cork loose, but not before shattering the bottle and scattering a chocolatey haze of powder across the ENTIRE living room. It was really hard to be mad at her though.. .She looked so accomplished with the cork in her mouth and a chocolate stained smile across the white fur of her muzzle!
October 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Hi Shreve,
I just finished your book “The Daily Coyote” and had to get online and see how Charlie was doing, praying he was still around. I guess all your anxioty rubbed off on me. I kept worrying all through the book either you or he would get hurt. I loved hearing about Eli too, I’ve always kept an orange cat and had a Malamute that was a little sister to one, he’d clean her face and have much the same behavior as yours. Thanks for sacraficing so much and taking care of that beautiful animal. Your are a strong woman to live in those freezing conditions!!! And the way you put beauty into words is truely a talent as well as the awsome photography. Bless you and your furry friends!
Sincerely, Karen Koons
October 27th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
this post is too late, but it is what just popped into my head when I saw this pic: “They went that a way.”
October 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Just a quick question (if it can be answered through here), did Cute Overload also do the same as my ‘Omnom Perignon’?
October 27th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Stephanie – NO – I just meant the om nom thing – your comment is TOTALLY unique and I LOVED it! ~ S.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Uncorked Melody
October 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Wow. I read your amazing book, and it feels like I know you.You have a lot of courage and determination, and I admire you for that. Could you give me any pointers on raising a “wild” animal? I’ve always wanted to fo something like tat when I get older. By the way, it sounds like you did get Charlie a sister…?
October 31st, 2009 at 10:52 am
Hi Sarah ~
I always recommend people read this post of mine:
http://www.dailycoyote.net/?p=273
and then perhaps volunteer with a licensed wildlife rehabber or a rescue facility? Something like that would give you far greater knowledge than I could!
~ S
October 31st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I am bitterly jealous of your being a writer with the ability to live far from the madding crowd. I am a recovering actress, who, after living for many years in NYC, tried a home on the range in Arizona. I drove and fearlessly camped my way from NYC across the country to San Diego and then up to Sequim, Washington looking for the perfect place to live. (Along the way, people invariably expressed shock, either telling me I was brave or backing toward their RVs as though I might be dangerously insane or contageous.) I found several towns I loved, but the only place I could afford a home in the desert was near Sedona, AZ. I was able to find work there too. Sadly, work didn’t last, and I moved to LA — my least favorite place next to Phoenix — to earn a living.
I desperately miss open spaces and cannot live without animal companions, so I feel a sort of kinship with you in your home on the range. Kudos to you for your independent spirit and for your generous care of animals, especially your foundling, Charlie.
Becky
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:25 pm
He looks just like my Strider when he has a tennis ball sticking out of the side of his mouth and he’s saying “Try to take it! Come on, please try to take it…”