On a 29th of April in the hills of Santa Barbara

I only wish I had been there,

for the whelping of this puppy,

whom I photographed taking the

breezes off the bay at Ft Mason,

San Francisco, at 20 weeks. By

coincidence a successor of his,

also from that marine paradise,

took his final inoculations in

Virginia today. And now there

may be chasings after taunting

tennis balls, and probably a

menacing of geese, who exploit

the shaded pond with raucous 

incivility. 

Photograph Laurent

M-6, 50mm Summicron