We interrupt your regularly scheduled Caturday for this important bulletin: Happy birthday Ber-LIN! Happy birthday Ber-LIN! Happy birthday, sweet pupper! Happy birthday, Ber-LIN! Berlin is one today, and being spoiled rotten even as we speak. Or type. Or read. Or whatever it is we’re doing.
No captions or hovertext today. Not sure why, just not feelin’ it. But there’s plenty of Berlin for you to enjoy nevertheless.
I ran across Lily on my way through Sea Ranch, a funny little more or less privately owned town entirely populated by rich people several hours north of San Francisco. Not exactly my kind of place, really, though I have visited there once before. They have some nice beaches, and thanks to California’s enlightened laws, nobody is allowed to either own or prevent public access to beaches. So I got to visit a nice beach! And near that beach I met a nice dog, who, it turned out, was turning 7 years old today. Happy birthday, Lily!
Ran across this pup outside a shop in Fort Bragg, California. He was not happy to be left out of the shopping trip, but he was perfectly happy to interact with all the folks passing by.
Once is only four months old, but he makes up for it with wiggliness. He was originally named ‘eleven’, but the family decided that it sounded classier in Spanish, so Once it is!
Cleo’s our second birthday dog, turning three today, and I ran into her today, at a big St Patrick’s Day block party, where she was greeting all and sundry and just generally having a blast.
I have TWO birthday pups to post for St Patrick’s Day: must be a popular birthday for dogs! Gypsy is the first, and she’s an Honorary DoSF: I ran into her near Coos Bay, Oregon, but I’m not sure if she was from there or just passing through. And she turns five today! Everyone say happy birthday to Gypsy!
“Bodega Bay Dog of the Day” has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Sunny was only 14 weeks old when I grabbed a few pictures of him up in Bodega Bay. Unsurprisingly, he was mostly a blur or in some cases entirely absent from the picture (when he managed to get a tenth of a second ahead of me). But a couple of them came out.
I spotted this towhee in Oregon. And he seems to have spotted me, too!
I ran across some folks while I was out this morning checking out the Farmer’s Market and then heading to the St Patrick’s Day Parade. They seemed like Japanese tourists, although I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a tourist who visited with their cat, so maybe they were Japanese expats. Anyway, they had a gorgeous kitty with them, and despite the grumpy look, I think he was actually pretty happy to be out and about.
Man. I don’t think we appreciate the quality of our phone cameras nearly enough. If I’d tried to crop a picture I took with my film camera back 40 years ago down that small, there’s no way it would have been in focus and it wouldn’t have come out nearly that nice. And this took 5 seconds to take and 2 minutes to edit.
Wally (3) has got this whole ‘big eyes’ thing absolutely nailed, huh?
