Saturday, June 30, 2012

30 June


Sacked Gracie
Totally Spent
Sleeping Deeply
In Toys
Good Night

Thursday, June 28, 2012

28 June


Ever Curious
Observant
Interested
This is YOU
Then, Always, Still.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

27 June


Your face is so expressive
Revealing more about
What I imagine you're thinking
Than most would give "a dog"
Credit for pondering...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

26 June


Ahhhhhhh...
Your favourite way to nap
Filet-of-Grace
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Girl

Monday, June 25, 2012

25 June

DOing Roly-Poles 
2005 Sedona

Going Roly-Poling
Making Angels
In the red rock
In the sand
And best of ALL
In the wet soft grassy places
And EVEN
On the sidewalk for belly rubs
Or Right Here at Home
When it's only you & me
How you LOVE to Roly-Pole

Sunday, June 24, 2012

24 June


Summer Rain
Your favourite flavour
Ahhhhhhh...
Deliciousness!!!

Saturday, June 23, 2012

23 June


Something very rare
Unusual and
Almost impossible to imagine
Is your sadness...
But I caught it here
In the briefest of blinks
And it breaks my heart 
Just to remember it.



Friday, June 22, 2012

22 June


Such a difference
This photo, just oh, 2 months
[mayBE even less]
And you dwarf your
Deer Mama
While your love
BEgins, too, to almost dwarf
YOU!
You are most certainly
"Love on 4 Legs"

Thursday, June 21, 2012

21 June


So often I see you
Like this
Moreso with people, Now
And usually leaning in
As though you are filling them up
With your love
&
Your sweetheartedness...
Seeing this photo of you long ago
I'm thinking this was where you "learned"
From your "Deer Mama"
How we each "hold" love and share it
Simply
By touch and leaning.


Tuesday, June 19, 2012

19 June


How you loved your little cot
Out on the porch
In the cool night air.
Such a happy girl
YOU...
Always have been
Still are
Forever
I imagine
Will YOU BE.


Monday, June 18, 2012

18 June


My favourite thing to DO
On my birthday
Is share it 
Just BEing
With YOU!!


Sunday, June 17, 2012

17 June


It is nice to walk
With a friend
To keep together
Side-by-side
And just
BE

Saturday, June 16, 2012

16 June


An extraordinary treat for you
Dry Creek
NOT "dry"
And oh, oh, oh!!!!
The MUDDY!


Friday, June 15, 2012

15 June


Gentle as you are
You have such a fierceness
When playing
With your "ba's"
Even with ME!!!
And you can always
ALWAYS
Make me roll in laughter
At your oh-so-scary growlingness...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

14 June


There is something wrong with this picture.
NOT Only DO you NOT have blue eyes...
Whatever were you DOing chewing on a plastic bag?!
I have made some wrong decisions
And this was definitely one of them.
Nevertheless
I love this face
The same one I often see
The one that has the magic to make me smile.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

13 June


You are my wild "child"
Who loves to BE free
And this photograph
More than most
Captured your deLIGHT
At running far and free
You GO, Gracie~Girl!!!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

12 June


At first, I didn't recognise this photo of you. And then I looked a little closer and realised where it was and when it was taken.

I can read you so well, and Now I see WHY. You've had the same body language since we met, when you were just 5 weeks old.

As I look on this little version of you I see that you have always been this eager and attentive to people, places, and things that you love.

I love you, my BEautimous Girl...

Monday, June 11, 2012

Sunday, June 10, 2012

10 June


You have such an amazing Imagination
And I think if you COULD
[and mayBE you CAN]
You would write wonderful stories
Of all the magical places
Your Imagination takes you...


Saturday, June 9, 2012

Friday, June 8, 2012

8 June


Hard to BElieve
YOU
Were once this small
And still
So much the same...

Thursday, June 7, 2012

7 June


You are such a character
So clearly AWARE of yourself
And
Lucky for ME
A clown who can make me
LAUGH
LAUGH

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

5 June


For YOU
Smiling
Is Sometimes
Highly
Over-rated...
Serimous-Face 
Princess Gracie
On her first "throne"




Monday, June 4, 2012

4 June

Sedona Morning July 2008

How you loved standing on the rocks
Listening to the sounds of
Morning
and
Water falling over the red rocks.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

2 June


There is a certain look you have
One you've clearly ALWAYS had
That makes me see
How much
YOU
REALLLLLLLY
DO
Understand
That I simply canNOT!!!

Friday, June 1, 2012

1 June


I suppose
If I hadn't seen it
A few bazillion times,
I, too, might doubt
A dog could
REALLY
Laugh!!!