Day: June 18, 2015

On Thursday nights, Kelly runs the bar and restaurant the the Bog, (Foggy  Bottom is it’s official name) a restaurant near our farm. It is a comfortable place to get a burger or dinner, Kelly navigates the bar and a dozen or so tables with grace and efficiency and courtesy. Her smile is never far away.

We go to the big once or twice a week, I have to admit I love it the best on cold and snowy winter nights when the wood stove is going and somebody is playing pool. Kelly is one of my favorite photographic subjects, she and the bog invoke the feeling of the old country tavern, filled with neighbors and oddballs and families.

I am happy to be walking by our meadow every morning, the wildflowers are rising now, they have their own character and style, so different than the lush garden flowers. I got lost in a sea of them this morning.

The puppy and the neighbor’s cornfield are both growing taller, and rapidly. Fate is starting to look like a young dog, she is growing taller and longer. The cornfield is shooting up as fast, I will take photos of both of them as they grow throughout the summer. Fate has grasped the concept of the photo shoot already, she is happy to pose for the camera.

The summer meadow is open for business and me and my camera is ready. The first wave of wildflowers is up on the road and dancing in the wind. I am glad to see it coming back to life after the long winter.

Team Bedlam is formidable, two border collies bred in the British Isles with lots of instinct and moxie. Red is teaching Fate The Stare, essential to herding sheep. He is a good teacher, patient and clear, she is a good student, eager and observant. She is getting the stare down, once she is a big bigger, she can push the sheep around also.