I walked into the living room and found Hairy Dog hanging out… Hanging out the window!!! He just glanced over at me as if “what up human?” and then looked back out the window. Realizing that he wasn’t that close to performing a Super Dog, I went and grabbed my camera. I return to him…

Here’s Hairy and Greta doing some funky post swimming poses. It reminds me of photos taken of people while dancing. They might be cool busting a move but not when caught frozen in a photo. Well, maybe that’s not true for these two. They always look cool… in a goofy cool kinda way.

(Click image to view album) Another night of 4th of July fun trying to blow our fingers off! Cheers!

Italian Snail Here’s one of the billions of snails that would crawl out and about whenever the rain passed through our town in the Dolomites. This one in particular is about 4cm across at the widest. Our house caretaker Hermann explained that the locals will collect them to make meals. I being a non-snail eater…

Snow Plant (sarcodes sanguinea) Spotted several Snow Plants popping up on a recent hike in the hills outside Kyburz, Ca. The red just jumps out among the browns and greens of the forest floor.

Spent the weekend down in Monterey and got a chance to take the pup hiking in Garland Ranch Regional Park. This is a great park that allows dogs. Spotted these Shooting Stars on a portion of the trail. The wild flowers are starting to pop up around here. Lots of rain has helped but the…

Took the dog out for a walk over in the Berkeley hills and came across a small pond filled with newts. Not just a few but hundreds of newts. And they appeared to be in a crazed newt orgy! It’s been proven that so much Viagra is being consumed that trace amounts are now measurable…