Otis and Richie are brothers, both 5 months old in these pictures. (Otis is the one in the orange.) I ran into them in Seattle, right outside the Pike Place Market. They were almost certainly quite interested in all the yummy things available, although I’m not sure whether they would have preferred to eat or roll in the fresh fish.
You don’t see a lot of Chessie mixes around, but that’s what Gracie (8) is. And she’s a very good girl!
PS: If anyone is watching eagerly for me to post their pup, leave a comment and let me know!
Some BIG kitties from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. They were having a lot of fun chasing one another around while I was there.
Ran into this guy in Vancouver. He’d been out in the rain having a grand old time.
I do not know the story of Popo’s name, but I do know that she (2 years old) has just about the prettiest sweater I’ve ever seen on a mammal.
Tyson (2) would like you to know that he is a serious thinker, and also would like to be your best friend.
I’m in Victoria, BC, this week, which is on Vancouver Island (which does not, in fact, contain Vancouver, BC or Vancouver, WA, despite what I thought for at least half my life). I’m staying at a rather opulent hotel, The Fairmont Empress, which is part of the same hotel group as The Fairmont in San Francisco (which I live a few blocks from, and which has been in the background of some of my pictures). Despite the fact that I’m staying in the ‘cheap’ rooms, it’s still dangerously comfortable. (And even for the cheap rooms, I got a great deal.)
Midwinter is hardly prime tourist season, but so far I have been blessed with two days so gorgeous that everyone was out and about. I went to two different coastal parks today and found their parking lots entirely full and a short line of cars waiting for a parking space to open up. I finally drove up to a rain-forest park that was only about a third full, and it was gorgeous. I’m here for another five days, and at least some of them are likely to be very pretty indeed.
No Caturday today, this is urgent and time-sensitive: it’s Shelia the Australian Shepherd mix’s seventh birthday today! Shelia is a Vancouverite, and enjoys running, playing, running and playing, and birthdays! Let’s give her a warm San Francisco welcome.
I’m back! And feeling nearly human, which is a fair second place to feeling divinely canine, like Rocco (4) here.
Sorry I’ve been MIA. The combination of a nasty bout of insomnia and nasty stomach bug has left me less than fully functional. Post tonight, though! This time for sure!