Scene Of The Crime

For those of you who followed us through the 'Yogi vs. The Waterfall' ordeal, here's a look at the chain of events:

Scene One - Dog sees water just off the edge of the trail and decides to go down for a dip

Dog gets sucked under the trail (dog-mom oblivious to this)

Comes out the other side (uh-oh)

And over the edge

down to the rocks 20 something feet below

and swept down the creek.  He was found over a kilometer from here, broken and bloodied.

Remember these?

And now we're fine: happy, not afraid of water.  The only change in him is that he's become even more of an attention hound.  He recognizes the sound of sympathy from 20 yards away.  As soon as he hears an "Aw, poor puppy!", he rushes towards it for an attention bath.  He'll be sad to see the cast come off.

Drawing Trees, Escaping Death and Dodging Coyotes

Another tough day at work.  I slipped out to draw a tree for today's challenge, and ended up drawing the entire scene. This is where I work; my office is a trailer that sits about  8' past the right border of this view.  That's my car.  Yogi is running around the hillside behind me, but never very far.

I saw a big ol' coyote here the other day.  He was right about where I'm sitting now.  Every time Yogi barks with any urgency I turn my head expecting to see him on the hill behind me.  But no.

This is the cross view of the lake.  I'll do the North view at some point.  It goes forever (well, about 70 miles) up past Kelowna, Vernon.  It's so stunning.  In fact, the beauty of this view almost killed me today.  I was driving home from here on a little ribbon of a road above the main road, and a guy came over the hill, fast, completely on my side! I had steep bank to my right and nowhere to go on the left.  I wailed on the horn and he snapped his head back from the view to the road, swerved back onto his side and carried on.  Happy to be alive yet again.