In full bloom.

The Agapanthus here bloom so vigorously that the flower eventually overpowers the stalk and the latter breaks.

Panasonic G3, 9-18mm Olympus MFT.

Hey!

Carmel, CA.

Panasonic G3, 9-18mm Olympus MFT.

My dog is a twit!

To say the last 24 hours have been trying is an understatement.

Bert, the resident Border Terrier, was not himself recently so a trip to the vet saw him XRayed, and to say that my jaw crashed through the floor when I saw the results does not begin to describe it.

Inside the pup – a triangular foreign object.

The opaque triangle shows that the lad had ingested a foreign object of some sort, so it was off to the emergency animal hospital with the hope that surgery could be avoided. The medical crew used an endoscope thrust down his gullet into the stomach, the latter inflated with air to allow more working room. A separate tool was inserted with a pincer arm which could both grasp the foreign object and encircle it to avoid damage to the oesophagus during removal. Attended by nurses and an anesthetist in addition to the endoscopic expert, the standard of technology and care was identical to that for a human being.

Turns out the pup had swallowed …. a piece of glass!

The $2,600 snack.

Well, those have to be the strangest photographs you will ever see on this blog.

The pup is home now, a tad sore, lesson learned. I hope.

The blue armband is from the IV drip!
A cottage cheese diet is in order while Bert recovers.

Period detail.

Rebuilt in 1884, there are some lovely period details to be found in this historic mission just outside the town of Carmel, CA.

Panasonic G3, 9-18mm Olympus MFT lens.

Late sun.

Panasonic G3, kit lens.