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Selfies With Pets: Three Dogs, A Cat & A Cockatoo #DogwoodWeek1 Self Portrait

1/9/2016

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Typist: Bethany
The 52 Snapshots of Life Photo Challenge last year did a lot to keep me blogging consistently, motivate new pet adventures and encourage imaginative photography during a very tough year for me personally. Although we made it through 2015 with no deaths in the family and I am settling into a good groove of making time for my new job and blogging, I decided to seek out a new photo challenge for 2016 to keep my pet adventures and the photographic documentation of those outings creative and fresh. After a lot of searching, the most inspirational photo challenge I found is the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. It's week one and I have already been extremely challenged!
 Dogwood Photography Photo Challenge Week 1, Portrait: Self Portrait
"Start things off right with a 'selfie'! Explore the self timer setting on your camera."
Selfie With Pets: Three Dogs. Cardigan Welsh Corgi Brychwyn, Miniature Long Haired Dachshund Wilhelm & Rough Collie Huxley #DogwoodWeek1 #Dogwood52 Self Portrait Photography Challenge
Selfie With Pets: Three Dogs & A Cockatoo. Cardigan Welsh Corgi Brychwyn, Miniature Long Haired Dachshund Wilhelm, Rough Collie Huxley & Triton Cockatoo Leo. #DogwoodWeek1 #Dogwood52 Self Portrait Photography Challenge
Selfie With Pets: Three Dogs, A Cockatoo & A Cat. Cardigan Welsh Corgi Brychwyn, Miniature Long Haired Dachshund Wilhelm, Rough Collie Huxley, Triton Cockatoo Leo and Abyssinian Tabby Cat Amelia. #DogwoodWeek1 #Dogwood52 Self Portrait Photography Challenge
The first thing that appealed to me about the week one challenge is that I have never explored the self timer on my camera. Secondly, I have been wanting to try a fun selfie with myself and all five pets. Until discovering this photo challenge, it had never occurred to me that the timer would be the best way to capture some me and three, four and five pets fun. The photos could have been better composed, angled and lit, but for a bunch of pets and a human that have been relatively sedentary for the last week because the human has a few separated and fractured ribs, I think we did pretty good. And at the least, we got out and had fun together. That is always the point!
This post is a part of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. Please see more of our photo challenge posts here.
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Five Pets Labor To Care For An Ailing Human {52 Snapshots of Life Week 37}

9/17/2015

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Abyssinian tabby cat Amelia works to nurse her ailing human back to health.
Abyssinian tabby cat Amelia may be getting tired of the labor invloved in helping her ailing human.
Abyssinian tabby cat Amelia is ready for her ailing human to be well again.
Abyssinian tabby cat Amelia supervises Triton Cockatoo Leo's human nursing efforts.
Triton cockatoo Leo is proud of his human wellness labor efforts.
Abyssinian tabby cat Amelia checks in again on the labor of her fellow pets, this time Cardigan Welsh Corgi dog Brychwyn informs her the human continues to be ill.
Rough collie dog Huxley and miniature dachshund dog Wilhelm labor atop their ailing human while corgi Brychwyn takes a work break on the floor.
It's a lot of work to help a human feel better; black and tan dapple miniature long haired dachshund dog Wilhelm naps on top of his ailing human.
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Black Coffee, From Steamy To Cold, In Just One Barking, Meowing, Squawking Moment {52 Snapshots of Life Week 33}

8/14/2015

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Typist: Bethany
'Tis morning in Cascadia, ready to work
All around me the pets will casually lurk.
Black coffee, black laptop and telephone are near
Before sitting on the couch, black fur I must clear.

And white fur, grey fur, brown too; my task never ends
But it's worth it to work next to all my best friends.
The light as my laptop turns on almost dreamy
Sipping slow my coffee for it is still steamy.

The dogs have been walked, with the cat I have played
All the pets have been fed and the beds have been made.
As Leo's black beak munches breakfast from behind
All pets settle as I begin my daily grind.

When out on the porch, human foot steps can be heard
All rush to the door loudly except for the bird.
As dogs bark, cat meows, a fur storm at the door
Leo shouts "hello" until I can hear no more.

All that ruckus was made for just one tiny box
Delivered midst loud barking, meowing and squawks.
Calming all the pets with a plethora of treats
We can settle back in to our working time seats.

Three dog's black noses on the couch peacefully sigh
A pink cat nose covered warmly to sleep near by.
Cockatoo Leo is back to filling his crop
I again begin working at my black laptop.

My ears ringing from the box delivery attack
My much colder coffee not as tasty this black.
I would not have my work be any other way
Even loudly, pets always mean "have a nice day!"

Even if you don't work from home, how do your pets "help" you get the job done?
The steamy black coffee calm before the delivery storm
Black coffee, laptop and phone surrounded by Cardigan Welsh corgi Brychwyn, miniature dachshund Wilhelm, rough collie Huxley, cat Amelia and cockatoo Leo.
The joys of working from home with pets: Cardigan Welsh corgi Brychwyn, miniature dachshund Wilhelm, rough collie Huxley, cat Amelia and cockatoo Leo.
Pets help get the job done: Cardigan Welsh corgi Brychwyn, miniature dachshund Wilhelm, rough collie Huxley, cat Amelia and cockatoo Leo.
The Cascadian Nomads pets, cat Amelia, rough collie Huxley, Cardigan Welsh corgi Brychwyn, miniature dachshund Wilhelm and Trtion cockatoo Leo, after a package was delivered and there was cold black coffee.
The cold black coffee delivery aftermath.
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When A Long Time Camping Companion Meets Its Demise

8/4/2015

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The five traveling pets of the Cascadian Nomads, cat Amelia, cockatoo Leo, dachshund Wilhelm, corgi Brychwyn, rough collie Huxley, and their old tent.
Don't worry, the pets are fine. The tent, however, did not return from our last camping trip.
Typist: Bethany
Ode To My Fallen Traveling Friend
When I first set you up in 2009
I had to look up the directions online.
In an Oregon Country Fair field with little reception
I slowly found your set up instruction.
'Twas at that Fair you were aptly named "The Palace,"
The luxurious tent that mirrored my ballast.
Through Burning Man pilgrimages and road trips galore
Setting you up was never a chore.
I could single handedly erect you in minutes
Squelching ideas of solo traveler limits.
You were shelter for friends, family, five pets and I
Keeping us all safe, cool, warm and dry.
I was proud to grease your zippers and patch your holes,
That maintenance meant we'd met more traveling goals.
Thank you for your service my beloved tent
I was devastated when your poles were bent
In that Lake Mead wind storm your demise began
But last weekends broken door zipper was fate's last hand.
That and the rain you at last allowed in.
You had served so well up until then
Can you believe we camped at the Grand Canyon?
And in New York? What a great companion!
To the sound of Taps I marched to the trash your remains
Oh the memories of travel with you my heart contains
Thank you so much for being there my tent friend
I will miss you and remember you until my traveling end.
Camping cat Amelia.
Camping Triton cockatoo Leo and rough collie Huxley welcome visitors to our old tent.
Please forgive the roughness (otherwise known as bad) about this poem. This ode was written in retrospective tears upon returning home from my last camping trip. The first trip I have taken in over seven years from which "The Palace" did not return with me. I considered revising this poem to make it more of a formula ode but decided to publish it in it's raw, exhausted from the camping trip, weary with memories, form.
RIP
Have you ever mourned the demise of an inanimate object that was rich with shared memories?
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