Dog in a tube

The dog has rays shooting out of his eys.  He looks possessed.  

The walk this evening was hurried along by storms that seemed to be closing in on us.  The storms fizzled out as it got darker and the heat of the day dissipated so they never arrived in our area.  We walked up the road and the dog got the scent of a cat somewhere in the area.  He ran into a drain pipe and disappeared into the darkness.  The pipe travels several hundred feet underground and crosses under the road at one point. The dog has no apparent fear of entering the total darkness of the long pipe. I fear that one day something will happen and I will have to go into the pipe and get him. I have crawled into the pipe a few feet and found it very claustrophobic.   I managed to snap a photo of him as he entered one of the drainpipes we encountered on our walk.  He looks strange due to the light reflecting from his eyes.  Thanks for stopping by tonight.  Bye.

Peanut patch perambulation

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The dog leads the way home. 

Our walk this morning took us up to the peanut patch. The peanuts are a month or so away from harvest when the weather should be somewhat dryer.  I will put up a photo of the peanut patch when it is sunny so you can see them better.  Today I photographed the beautiful tunnel of trees that over hang one of the dirt roads we often walk on.   There are several types of trees growing here such as live oak, pin oak, water oak,  magnolia,  sycamore, wild blue berries, wild roses, muscadine grapes and dozens of grasses and weeds.  As you can see from the photo the dog always leads the way home because he likes to stop and look around in the bushes for the inevitable souvenir he will carry to the house.  He might pick up a tree limb, a pine cone, a discarded shoe or any number of things people have thrown on the side of the road.  He once carried a cone home from a construction site on our road.  I always try and keep him in sight to prevent him from walking in front of  the very occasional car or truck that may come up the road. The dog and I have been walking the roads around my home for five years so most of the people who drive by know to watch out for the dog. I have to be careful for those who don't know us.  In the summer we usually move pretty fast through this tunnel of trees because the tree and bushes harbor mosquitoes and flies that will attack you in the hundreds.  If there is no breeze you can just walk faster than 4 miles per hour and the mosquitoes can't keep up.  Sorry for being late in getting this page up. I forgot my phone this morning.  Thanks for coming by