Hopeful at Morning Playtime
10-19-25
5 years 5 months old

I’ve been hoping to get photos of my crew before the fall colors were over.  Two weeks of heavy wind and rain didn’t help any, but I finally had a day of decent weather when I was home, so I tried.  There wasn’t a lot of tree color yet, but the grasses around my fence-post pile had dried to a beautiful light-gold color that sure captured the sunlight. I hadn’t been able to get a handyman all summer, so the grass hadn’t been cut down, which I usually do to prevent the dogs getting grass seeds in their ears.  To get the colors AND have the sun behind me, I had to use an area that slopes downhill.  It did make for some interesting photos of them coming uphill!  I was pleased that most of my kids showed off the beautiful reach they have in front from their great shoulders – we breeders work very hard to get excellent 90-degree angle shoulder conformation!

I absolutely LOVE the first photo.  Look at those teeth!!! 

It’s still warm enough that I have the dogs’ pools out.  Towards the end of her play session, I got some great photos of Hopeful shedding water everywhere.

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