Bhindi

    This is Bhindi, my Collie, Shepherd, Spaniel, Retriever, Chow, ? mix, at a small lake very near my old  home in the mountains of Bedford , Virginia.  This is a place I miss , we would walk to it and by the time we got there we would both be so hot we would just jump in, float around and then walk home through the woods. Bhindi learned to swim there though I'm not sure she really enjoyed it.  Occasionally , especially right after I saw "Lake Placid", I would get a little nervous thinking maybe she saw something behind me and that 's why she was whining nervously from the shore.  But really, I think she was concerned that I might go to the other side of the lake without her.  Or she saw a huge crocodile behind me that just wasn't hungry at the time.  I guess we'll never really know.

                                    

Sasha

    This is Sasha curled up in my messenger bag , she's a far cry from the gross, oozy, sick little thing she and Spike were when I picked them up on the side of the road, luckily before the coyotes found them. Someone had dumped their 10 week old litter of kittens on top of the mountain that I lived on in Bedford county, happily my sister Mary saw them and told me. I wasn't planning on keeping them. Really  I wasn't.  I was just going to get them well and find them a home which wouldn't have been difficult because they're so pretty and loving.  And dog and child friendly.  It turned out that they suited me just right.   Sasha's a little lady, much smaller than Spike and because of that , I guess, her voice never grew so that she sounds like a little kitten permanently.  Possibly just a little bit whiny. Just a little bit. Spike is a character, kind of swaggery and extremely affectionate , often when I'm in the middle of a tricky delicate maneuver involving a dinosaur leg and an Exacto knife....hmmm.  All in all, their personalities make up for the fact that obviously I can never wear black again. And for an "artist " that 's kind of a blow.

Liz

Sasha says to give a shoutout to the people who said " What about Sasha? Why no pics of Sasha?"