Just for once ...

[Cornelia]

... I dare to show you photos that are far too grainy and blured like the one above (find the deer anyway) or beyond help like the one below, which is overexposed and with too much flash and has bad colours.

The next one is even perfectly out of focus (there are two squirrels on that tree btw.) - but who cares: Joy is happy!! And so am I!! 

For this is the way, we used to walk and still walk most of the time (oh I was ever so glad when that line started to relax about a year ago and the constant pull stopped, which gave me hip- and backache!) - and I know, such an inhabited forest is not ideal for walking a Setter :-)), but we live right on the edge of it! 'Are you coming or what?':

I do hope, this is not just a phase but the harvest of our training and a maturing girl - but this is my pride and 'Joy', staying with me with a smiling face and a wagging tail and an unhooked leash! - at least on one stretch of our walk...

And I also hope, I will be able to handle the camera and the dog at the same time more often from now on - most of the time, I did not even bother to take one with (camera that is)!! But if willing, that rascal of mine can be ever so obediant! Those who know her, will know what an important step this is for us...

I just wanted to share this with you ... 

PS I know some of you are stil waiting for the Norway pics - they are coming ... promised!!!

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

Super story and fine that you showed us not perfect photos. I feel much better with my almost always not perfect photos:-) I'm waiting for your Norway story

[Barbara]

We immer wunderschöne Bilder und eine so brave Joy!

[Susan Mogony]

Lovely, great to have a walk in the nature and see such great stuff!

[Peter Hennig]

still very nice pics I enJOYed them
as they get older they become more in tune with what you want and a little less exuberant makes walking more pleasurable