The weather this week has been almost painfully beautiful, cool, windy days with rich skies, clouds and sun, October light streaming through the meadow. Fate, the Joy Dog, has raced through the meadow, chasing chipmunks and rabbits, perhaps meeting with a secret and mystical group of meadow dogs. She disappears for long stretches in the tall grass, she perhaps has a secret life out there that she keeps to herself. Dogs sometimes need privacy as well as people.

It is a beautiful thing to see her vanish out in the beautiful meadow, flashes of white showing here and there as she races to the grass, on the way to secret appointments we can only imagine.