Water Retrieve. Photograph, 9 x 5 in. Copyright 2008, Dawn Gates. Used with permission.
This past weekend we took Mack’s ashes up to Lower Fishing Lake and spread them near the spot where he learned to swim. The whole weekend was visually beautiful: the warm Fall weather turning leaves every shade from lemon yellow to alizarin crimson. It was hard to leave. Hard to leave our dog, who never wanted anything more than to be near us, up at the lake. But I promised him him a month ago when he left us that there would be squirrels where he was headed, and I intended to keep my promise.
I’d like to take a moment to thank the people who commissioned pet portraits from me before Mack became sick. Your patience and understanding over the past several weeks has been greatly appreciated.
And for the rest of you, I’ll be back here in a couple days with new sketches – see you then.
we have been missing you on wetcanvas and hope you will pop back in and say hi when you get a chance.
Hi Cathy and my other WC! friends,
I will be back to WC! soon, I’ve just been busy lately