The sky looked promising for a good sunset last night so I took my camera over the fields. As I walked up the hill, I saw a Cairn terrier.
We always liked to see other people's Cairns when we had Jinks as there are never very many of them about and they all have that same mischievous quality. And, for me at least, it's even more welcome to see them now he is no longer with us.
As I approached, the lady owner turned to me and I recognised Lindsey and remembered seeing her walking around the field with Dolly at her heels whilst we had Jinks on the lead and dared not let him off.
Lindsey and I were pleased to see each other and when I told her about Jinks, I got a hug. I wondered then, of course, if I could take her photo and she was quite enthusiastic.
I took a few shots of her with Dolly and a few with her 'new' dog Teddy, a little Yorkshire terrier, just 18 months old, the sunset by now all but forgotten.
Lindsey work is at the airport. She told me how pleased she was recently to achieve her degree in history through the Open University after a few years of study, having always been really interested in the subject.
I originally intended including Lindsey's photos in my stranger's project and spoke about it to her but then realised of course that she is not a stranger at all.
(I admit to falling in the flower bed 'shooting' bees on 'hot lips' that morning and it did shake me up a bit although I wasn't hurt. Ray in his usual calm manner was not annoyed that I had fallen right in the middle of his newest, most prized salvia. But when I asked him to first put the camera in a safe place before helping me up, he did take a couple of shots of me, getting his own back for all the times he has been my subject!)
So thank you to Lindsey, Dolly and Teddy and this almost does not qualify as a snippet!
n.b. the difference in exposure between these pics is the quickly setting sun at that time - I did try to 'reconcile' it.
see 'doggy love' here:
http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/add-ins/2018-08-08
You give me hope, Jacqueline! I am not alone.....
We are both fine, thanks, Beryl. Although when swimming today I noticed a bruise! I was aiming for a shot of a fat bee dangling from a hot lips flower. The watering can was partly to blame for my fall - it was clearly visible but somehow I managed to get tangled up with it!
i think the right hand side image works best as the catchlights look brighter and sharper in the post sunset light.
Are we going to see you in the flower bed Haze !!!!
Aha - you most certainly are not (going to see me in the flower bed,) Phil!! I would like to have photographed the gleeful look in Ray's eyes when he realised he had the 'instrument of torture' in his hand and could get his own back. (I exaggerate just a tad!) The right hand image was taken before the left, hence the light was not fading so much - how quickly the sun goes when it goes. Thanks for comments, as always.