photo taken July 2019

one year ago: Lift Every Voice And Sing
two years ago: Bright Eyes
three years ago: Stuffie In His Teeth
four years ago: It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane
five years ago: Half Nap
six years ago: Sing Song
seven years ago: Soft Points
eight years ago: Play Dance
nine years ago: BFF’s
ten years ago: If I Had A Hammer…
eleven years ago: A Mid-April Snow

photo taken July 2019

one year ago: Peachy Keen
two years ago: Tail Floof Flashback
three years ago: Splendid, In The Grass
four years ago: Snoozefest
five years ago: Charles
six years ago: Clarity
seven years ago: Coy Joy
eight years ago: Headed South
nine years ago: The Nina, the pinto, and the Santa Maria
ten years ago: “WWED?” (What Would Eli Do?)
eleven years ago: Rollin’

photo taken July 2019

one year ago: Grass Jungle
two years ago: Let’s Play Ball
three years ago: Dumbo
four years ago: Gorgeousness
five years ago: Charles
six years ago: The Sun Also Rises
seven years ago: Nubbin Nappin’
eight years ago: Snake In The Grass
nine years ago: The Nina, the pinto, and the Santa Maria
ten years ago: Near…. Far….
eleven years ago: Rollin’

photo taken July 2019

one year ago: Signature
two years ago: Howdy!
three years ago: Dumbo
four years ago: Gorgeousness
five years ago: Wooly Dreads
six years ago: In Bloom
seven years ago: Breakfast
eight years ago: Snake In The Grass
nine years ago: Mouthfull
ten years ago: Near…. Far….
eleven years ago: ‘Zhasted

Charlie and I start our mornings, these days, with a hair harvest.
He is finally shedding. Charlie pulls out his tail fur with his teeth,
but asks me to pull out the underfur from the rest of his body.

I tug at a little wisp of loose wool and then,
like a magician pulling scarves from a coat sleeve,
pull and pull and pull until I have a huge handful of fluff.
It’s so soft and smells like him.
He is SO LITTLE under all that fuzz!

photo taken July 2019

one year ago: Summer Love
two years ago: Howdy!
three years ago: All Smiles
four years ago: Looking Up
five years ago: Shaggy
six years ago: Dust Up
seven years ago: Serious Shedding
eight years ago: Miss Oblivious
nine years ago: Mouthfull
ten years ago: Shadow Eyes
eleven years ago: Snow Nose