Tigger & Patches

We've had a lot of snow days this year. Storm, the Snow Dog, has thoroughly enjoyed having me home more this winter as well as having more and more snow to play in. However, all those days home took away a lot of days I would have had spread across the remainder of the school year. Consequently, when we still had a day off for Presidents Day in February, I took advantage of the 3-day weekend and my loving husband's generosity to drive out to Ohio and visit our daughter, Alli.

Alli is a photography major. You can catch up with her at her own blog: Diary of a Photo major. We had a busy weekend together. One of the many activities we shared was a photo session in the park.  

She had an assignment to photograph things in motion. 

I immediately wished there had been some way to bring Storm along, as she would have LOVED to play in the park and have her picture taken repeatedly! (as evidenced in previous posts ;)


As luck would have it, when we got to the park there were a pair of friendly dogs available. Meet Tigger and Patches. 

They were out having a lovely day in the cold with their owner, a nice man who offered to let Alli photograph them in motion doing their favorite park activity: going down the slide. I wanted to go for it, but Alli (to my total bafflement) declined his generous offer. That didn't stop me from snapping a few of them playing with the ducks in the pond ;)

They actually got into that frigid water a few times...just to their toes...maybe up to the knees a little. The ducks didn't stay by them too long. They preferred our side of the pond for a bit...then realized we weren't carrying food. But I guess they were happy at least that we didn't have any dogs with us ;)