Cabana in the Mist

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! We had a nice salmon dinner at our house, since we don't eat turkey. Then, on Friday, Cabana got to experience two of her favorite things at the same time--the dog park and pancakes! Our very first dog park friends are moving to Hawaii, along with their lucky dogs Kona and Ami. Some other friends brought their camper van with a complete kitchen to the park, and we made pancakes and served mimosas. I took a lot of great photos, then had a computer glitch and lost them all. Grrr, don't you just hate it when that happens? The dogs all lined up in eager sits, waiting for a piece of pancake, and Cabana was surely the most eager of them all. I had a great photo of that, too--sigh.

Since I lost all those photos, these misty ones from the following day will have to suffice. I recently got a polarizing lens filter for my camera, which is supposed to increase color contrast and minimize haze. I'm not sure if it made much difference since it was a really foggy morning, but I had fun with my new "toy" anyway.

Human and canine friends await as we approach the park on Saturday morning. Our soon-to-be Hawaiian friends are in this assemblage. They won't have to put up with this kind of weather much longer.

I don't normally take photos of just scenery. I like having people and/or animals in my shots, but I guess I was feeling artsy when I saw these branches against the sky with water droplets hanging off them.

Cold and damp are words that come to mind when I see this photo. Brrr, winter isn't far off.

But thankfully, we've still got some autumn color left to enjoy for another week or two.

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Does She or Doesn't She?

This video of Cabana cracks me up. Every Sunday morning, my husband's tradition is to make pancakes for breakfast. He makes them in a pan that creates a waffle texture. One morning, we let Cabana try one.

Cabana was laying on her bed in the living room, and we brought a pancake over to her. She seemed surprised, since we don't normally give her breakfast in bed!

In the video, she kind of noshes the pancake around in her mouth for a long time before finally swallowing it. She acts like it's a tough piece of meat that needs tenderizing, rather than a very soft pancake. If you watch the time counter on the video, Cabana picks up the pancake at :01 seconds and actually swallows it at :24 seconds--that's a lot of chewing.

At the end, her jowl gets stuck in her mouth for a couple of seconds, which makes her have the funniest expression on her face.

It's hard to know if she liked the pancake or not! Can you tell if she did???

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