Well for those few of you who are wondering why I dropped off the planet I had a rather complicated piece of surgery done. They had to do a bone fusion from t4 through t6 and then a following fusion from t6 to t8. Needless to say I was not hopping around with a camera.

In the meantime, of all that are precious and most to be loved family member, Dusk, became incognizant and then slowly lost the ability to use her right front and rear legs and went blind in her right eye. It was determined at this point that she had a brain tumor on the left frontal at 12 years of age. It was strongly advised against putting her through chemotherapy and radiation. We gave her some medication to help her feel better. It worked for a few days but then she quickly went downhill and we let her go at 5:43 in the morning on July 16th. I know many of you have had wonderful canine partners and feline partners that you have been devastated over having left this earth so you know how badly my soul was damaged.

Normally we wait months before even considering another partner but The two remaining Huskies were not handling the lost well. The eldest who was a very close companion to dusk began hiding and the large husky Winnie could not take control of the remaining husky.

Dusk being an Australian Shepherd mix with golden retriever was without doubt the ruler of the house. She ruled with the velvet hand and did so in a very firm way. Keeping two crazy huskies under control at all times 🙂 so we decided to look for a golden retriever which was the better part of dusk. And after many hundreds of pictures and dozens and dozens and dozens of breeders, we stumble across one little golden retriever puppy whose eyes just melted through and we could not resist lol. She had that same depth in her eyes that are deer dusky had.
She is a purebred. She has papers. She was thoroughly vet checked given a one-year health guarantee. No questions. Asked her parents were genetically tested and OFA certified and a wonderful company called puppies Express drove her from Indiana to Florida and delivered her safe and sound to our door 🙂 I have since been doing what I can to train her and teach her all the commands that are used in the household that the other dogs already know. She has already learned most of her hand signals. She is presently 4 months and 2 weeks old. She is teething and we are giving her every chewable item that will assist her in this. She is an absolutely adorable and sweetheart girl so I have been very very busy and in my condition you can add a few more very s to that.

So I will bore you with one or two images of our sweet girl if I can figure out how to do it on a cell phone as I am not able to actually sit at the computer lol.

As for doing my regular nature photography, it will be a while if at all. I have to be very careful about twisting bending turning so as not to possibly damage this fusion. And yes, in dog years I am already dead but in human years I am 69 going on 88 very quickly lol. I still love photography. I just don't know if I can do it but we will find out in a few months 🙂 in the meantime, I hope everyone is getting what they want as far as images and new equipment and education and experience.