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Happy Halloween from Sir Rouxpert:
Hope everyone has a fabulous Halloween weekend! I’ll be spending the next three hours trying to get that face paint off my dog. It is most definitely not engineered with fur in mind. I may just have to let it come off on its own eventually, which will mean a few very entertaining days walking around town with an eyebrowed + mustached little dog.
It has now been snowing for well over 24 hours and isn’t scheduled to stop until late tonight. Lauren, Waldo, Roux + I have been cooped up in our little house; the saving grace is that we live across the street from a school that’s been shut. So the four of us traipse across the street, to the football field and the dogs go wild until they go cold. Ridgebacks are not known for their ability to withstand inclement weather and neither Roux nor Waldo are any exception. This morning might be the first time I’ve ever seen wildman Waldo ready to go home before anyone else.
Fierce Ridgies:
Frozen Ridgie:
Looking at these shots of Kaneen, Brad + their two Weims (left to right: Jango, 7, and Nelson, 4) make me nostalgic for fall. I’m sure in some parts of the country as I write this you’re enjoying sunny days, the kind the epitomize fall. But here in Denver we’re smack dab in the middle of a blizzard that isn’t about to end. Editing these photos is the closest I’ll be coming to sunshine for the next few days.
I’m well aware of the fact that I have a compulsion towards busyness. Occasionally when I’m feeling especially overwhelmed I curse this compulsion, wishing I were the sort of person who divided their day into tidy little chunks of productive time, leaving free evening hours to be spent doing whatever it is people not afflicted with this disorder do with their time. But the inevitable truth is that it doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing per se. I seek it out. And right now, at this particular moment in time, I am so lucky to be absolutely passionate about all the things keeping me busy.
Despite (or because of?) the fact that I have learned to appreciate my zeal for a packed schedule I relish time away. Roux and I spent the weekend in Crested Butte, holed away in a little cabin in the woods. We spent the mornings hiking, afternoons buried in quilts by the fire…. It was, in short, exactly the kind of reprieve I needed. It was restorative. And it reminded me just how important it is to take stock, to actively appreciate my life, my job, my dog–the whole bit.
I spent some time shooting; mostly one early morning after a snowfall. Nobody else was out, it was just Roux, a local wolf-like dog, me + the camera. There is a purity about that kind of shooting that I will always love.
This is just a quick sneak peek of a recent session I did with Erin + her Retriever mix, Bubba. I love this little series.
Sorry the posting has been light and the writing even lighter. I’m in the midst of a crazy week with another one on the horizon, but I’ll make it a point to hammer out a least a few decent posts despite the chaos that’s surrounding me in the next few days.
