LJ Shootout Week 2

There is very little red in my life. I had no idea. It's been a week since the prompt of "red" came out and I've discovered except for stop signs and fire hydrants there's not a lot of red around here. So the picture I'm going to use was taken last Saturday in Bellows Falls, VT. I do like this picture because of the two red flowers against the background. It may not be red enough though!




The other half of the prompt is a photo that has no red in it at all. Well, that's easy. Here's the lovely Miss Dahlia again. For anyone who doesn't realize this, a lot of my photos are going to be of this dog. She's my main photography subject!



Edited to add: Both photos were taken on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18. The first one was edited for levels and a bit of saturation. The second one was not edited at all.

The dog is back!

Every summer, David and I look at each other and say "I'm worried about Dahlia."  Why?  Because she's listless.  She lays around the apartment, looking sad and miserable.  She walks slowly, ploddingly.  We worry that she's getting older (we don't know her real age, though we're guessing she's somewhere between 4 and 5).  We worry that something is wrong with her.  She has little interest in exercise and would much rather just lay in the grass for a belly rub.  In fact, she usually looks a little like this.


( Cut for more, including a few pictures )