mumby road

  • Backlit Archie

    Morning

    Evening

  • “Circus Dogs”

    Auto-generated description: Several puppies are gathered around a drum, with one sitting on top of it, in a dimly lit setting.

    This painting hung in my mom and dad’s house for 60 years or more. Now it’s my sister’s. Artist unknown. I love it. 🐶

  • Handsome Fellow

    Auto-generated description: A dog with curly fur is standing on its hind legs, resting its front paws on a person's knee, with a potted plant in the background.

  • Chili Dog Day

    Looking through windows at bare trees dusted with snow; a small dog sits in shadow on a tan couch in front of the windows

  • Noice, Abe

    Hard to imagine a sweeter time than the Sunday afternoon between Christmas and New Year listening to “My Bar’s Jukebox” and enjoying local IPAs in the backyard on a sunny 67(F)-degree day with my associate.

    A small dog with curly fur stands on a patio next to an outdoor table and a large planter with flowers.

  • Grade-A stocking stuffer

    A toy shaped like a dog, with an accordion-fold torso allowing odd shapes

  • Two-dog Christmas

    Auto-generated description: A person with glasses sits on a red chair, smiling and holding a fluffy dog, with another dog wearing a sweater standing on the couch in the background.

  • What a Sweetheart

    Archie

    A 'smiling' tan Mini Golden Doodle dog

  • Pub Name

    If I ever open a pub, “The Dog and Water” might be in the running for a name. 🐶

    A small dog lying in the sun on a teal couch; in the foreground is a glass of water on a table.
  • Trout Mountain, 06.18.2024, 5:58 am /

    Mountain in dawn sunlight; small dog in foreground. “Ya' comin?”

  • Oak Leaf Hydrangea

    Oak Leaf Hydrangea blooming in a backyard .

    More sweet life.

  • The Sweet Life

    A happy tan lying in the sun in front of a bright green door 🐶

  • Maggie
    As an adult, my family has had three dogs. Sweet, sweet Maggie (officially, Margaret Rose) was the first.

    Early Maggie (and early kids):
    Three kids and and a sweet dog

    Late Maggie:
    A sweet dog

  • Morning, Archie (Morning Archie)
    Small brown dog lying in a sunny spot on a patterned rug.
  • My Highest and Best Use
    sleeping dog
    1. Archie.
    2. My leg.
  • Archie Daffodil

    dog in foreground with daffodils in the background
    📷

  • Things I Really Like: an Ongoing List

    • Birdsong
    • Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
    • Archie
    • Tamales
    • Black licorice
    • Woodsmoke
    • Good Table Talk (more often, actually, Bar Talk)
    • a Ploughman's Lunch in a pub's garden
    • a 5:1 Martini, with a dash of orange bitters and 3 olives
    • Wind Chimes
    • Telephone calls with my out-of-town kids
    • Tacos with my in-town kid (and kid-in-law)
    • Resident Taqueria
    • Heat
    • Daffodils
    • Steel-cut oatmeal and a soft-boiled egg
  • After an illness, walking the dog | Jane Kenyon
    Wet things smell stronger,
and I suppose his main regret is that
he can sniff just one at a time.
In a frenzy of delight
he runs way up the sandy road—
scored by freshets after five days
of rain. Every pebble gleams, every leaf. 

When I whistle he halts abruptly
and steps in a circle,
swings his extravagant tail.
The he rolls and rubs his muzzle
in a particular place, while the drizzle
falls without cease, and Queen Anne’s lace
and Goldenrod bend low.

The top of the logging road stands open
and light. Another day, before
hunting starts, we’ll see how far it goes,
leaving word first at home.
The footing is ambiguous.

Soaked and muddy, the dog drops,
panting, and looks up with what amounts
to a grin. It’s so good to be uphill with him,
nicely winded, and looking down on the pond.

A sound commences in my left ear
like the sound of the sea in a shell;
a downward, vertiginous drag comes with it.
Time to head home. I wait
until we’re nearly out to the main road
to put him back on the leash, and he
—the designated optimist—
imagines to the end that he is free.
  • Christmas scenes 2023

  • handsome archie

    a tan mini-goldendoodle (Golden Retriever/Poodle mix) looking upwards
    🐶
  • If I were to open a pub, perhaps it would be "The Lamb & Puppy."

    Sleeping mini goldendoodle dog on a blue couch with a toy lamb in its mouth🐶

  • Archie & Red Mike
    This day begins with a 2-dog walk. 07:15, 09.23.2023, Dallas, TX, USA 📷

  • Andy Rooney?

    close-up of a mini goldendoodle dog who has huge eyebrows
  • Mini Goldendoodle dog asleep on a vibrant blue couch with a toy lamb it its mouth

    Archie’s binky. 🐶📷

  • Less is more; Not.
    Per my true love (via Robt. Venturi), "Less is a bore." Archie (and I) like it!

    bedroom with giant green leaves and pink flowers on the wall, a blue flowered bedspread, an orange small blanket, blue pillows, and mini goldendoodle dog sitting on the bed
    🐶 📷

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