Then & Now

It's Duke's 3rd birthday. 

Three years since a wet, bedraggled pup 

wandered into our garden one stormy night. 

Now a magnificent creature; 

still with that noble brow, 

those classical legs (Chippendale style)  

and still learning to pick up a golf ball.

Sand Story

Someone on the beach before us this morning. 

Their footprints tell their story,

He is a Japanese male - wearing Tabi, two-toed. 

sock-like boots, so he is a local, not a tourist.

He has a splayed footed walking style, so is probably 

an old farmer.

He is accompanied by a small dog. And by a female, 

probably his wife, who is walking just behind him, 

Japanese style. She's old, too, can't lift her feet up.

She is dragging something, probably the dog leash.

Call me Sherlock.