Wednesday Afternoon

Woo-hoo! I found a new setting on my camera (yes, I finally read the manual). It's a special setting for pets, so it takes into account fast movement. Hopefully any moving pictures I take will come out better. I only hope that any static pictures will be good as well.

Ari and Domino:

Domino:

Ari, Scruffy and Domino, digging holes together:

Scruffy and Domino, getting down and dirty:

Domino, in the hole:

Scruffy:

Domino again:

Scruffy and Domino:

Here's a few of Ari and Bronte running around:

Harry, in his favourite position:

Willy:

Max:

Willy:

Harry:

Bronte:

Here's a few more of Ari and Bronte:

Ari, Bronte and Harry:

Harry:

Sam:

Bonnie:

Scruffy and Bonnie:

Domino, Bonnie and Ari getting together:

Dan:

Domino:

And finally, Scruffy and Bonnie:

The Story of Jonesy

This is Jonesy:

Jonesy has been on one hell of an adventure. I first saw him in the park about a week ago, but he may have been there before that. Lots of people had seen him, but no one could get close. He was obviously a very well looked after dog so it was pretty certain that someone would be looking for him.

He disappeared from his home at the beginning of December, but nobody knows where he was between that time and the time he showed up in the park. Maybe someone took him, got bored after a couple of weeks and then dumped him in the park. His home is a fair distance from the park, so it was unlikely that he would have wandered that far on his own. Fortunately he ended up in Breckler Park. There's probably no better place he would have received the care and attention that he received from the people of the park. Jonesy's owners were tracked down using the licence number on his collar, and a reunion was arranged at the park.

(Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. I accidentally bumped the settings dial on my camera).

He used to wander up and down the paths, but nobody could get close to him. I threw him a few dog biscuits, which he ate:

One of the ladies tried to get close to him:

He actually found a nice little nest for himself. Can you imagine living here in the bush, in the middle of a hot summer, for at least a week?

Safely home again:

Tuesday Afternoon

Big drama in the park today, but I'm going to put that in a separate post. This post is for the regulars.

First, an apology. Somehow, I managed to change the setting on my camera. I think I accidentally bumped the settings dial, so that it was on the landscape setting. Apparently this means that the shutter stays open for a fraction longer than my normal setting. That means that anything moving will leave a blur. On some pictures I got lucky and they worked. Others I had to use software to remove most of the blur. So here are the best I could find:

Sam and Ari:

Sam:

Bronte:

Ari:

Dan:

Bonnie, from over the top of Dan's head:

Ari and Bronte, facing off:

Bronte, waiting to pounce on Ari:

Bronte again:

Ari and Bronte:

Ari and Bonnie:

Bonnie:

Bronte, looking to the heavens:

Ari and the setting sun:

Megan:

Bonnie and Harry:

Harry and Megan:

A few more of Harry:

Bonnie:

Finally, Megan: