Blueberries for Stella
Stella loves to eat berries. Here she is in my lovely ex-wife's front yard in the blueberry patch. You can't quite tell in this blurry photo, but she's eating them right off the bush.
That's a blueberry branch, visible just to the left of the black-eyed Susans, in case you can't tell. Stella is the pointy-eared black dog on the right. She only picks the ripe ones, but she can be quite greedy about them. It's so adorable I can hardly stand it.
She does the same thing with blackberries. She's been doing this since we first took her out on a hike and found some blackberries when she was just a pup.
And of course she likes it when you feed her just about anything; in the photo at left, that's my lovely ex-wife's hand dropping blueberries into Stella's mouth. I tried to get the perfect photo of the berry falling, but I just can't get the hang of the delay on the digital camera. And it was just a little too light out for the flash & a little too dark out for really sharp photos.
Despite Stella's enthusiasm for blueberries -- and her ability to be way too adorable for me to make her stop eating them, I picked about two pints on Saturday, and it really seemed as if more were ripening even as I picked them. I'm sure there will be several more pints waiting to be picked when I get home tonight.
Yum. And of course they freeze well, and frozen blueberries are an excellent snack in hot weather, for dogs and their humans. Lots of antioxidants.
Labels:
dogs,
flora and/or fauna,
random photos
5 comments:
Really, really, really cute. Way cuter than poison ivy. Thank you for showing us.
Awww.
The Westie I shared my childhood with used to eat the strawberries that grew in the baclyard.
but if you fed her any other fruit, she'd just roll it around with her nose.
When she was alive, the alphabitch would eat pretty much anything she found or I gave her, but she was especially fond of frozen bananas and watermelon and raw carrots.
Oh, and lamb & risotto.
Something in me has always fought sharpness in photos, probably because life goes by in a blur, why shouldn't photos? It's all part of the Holgatude, even if the camera is a Nikon. Something else that might work is blowing up tiny parts of digital photos, which I'm planning to experiment with. (Stella looks like a cool dog.)
Stella is the coolest dog. Kuba (the alphabitch) was also very cool in her way, and we were very attached, but Stella also has this marvelous presence. Very detached and zen-like but also very much in the center of everything.
A while ago I needed some borders and spacer-type images, so I blew up a bunch of slides from our path(ology) image database and cut tiny slices from them, lined them up, and blurred the whole thing with the gaussian blur function in fireworks -- it was gorgeous, and no one had to know they were looking at lung tissue and kidney biopsies etc.
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