Tail-waggers at the Tailgate Market

  

I admit to not going to introduce you to many dogs and their families, as they weren't coming over to the pottery booth anyway. This one group didn't seem at all friendly from my position at the back of our tent.

This little one in the sunhat was my favorite market-goer for the last market in June.

I missed my chance to have a shaken paw...

I enjoyed meeting the wirehaired terrier, and his family.

However, they were leaving and Mr. Dog became a very bad dog, peeing on my tubs under the table. Maybe he missed, but I did soak up his deposit with a Kleenex, and said "bad dog" loud enough for the departing owners to turn around to see what he had done. They just echoed "bad dog" and went on their way. When I had to load the un-sold pots into my tubs, I was aware that I might be carrying Mr. Dog's scent along with me. And I sure didn't welcome any more dogs into our pottery area, thinking they might feel obliged to leave their own marks.

Fortunately there's been a rain. I will soap down the tub's handles before unloading them next week. Incidentally, everyone had sales this day, so it was a satisfying Tailgate Market for the Mud Buddies!

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Today's quote:

The preface Walt Whitman wrote to Leaves of Grass, only in the 1885 edition:

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."

This week's critters

 Sometimes the critters just seem to pop up everywhere.

A sweet Snauzadoodle (I think) was a little bit hyper, though she had calming treats to eat, at the Center for the Arts show last week.

Pippen came to visit at the Tailgate market again last Saturday, with her mom!

And Maddie lives with my favorite hair artist, Joe. She comes to work with him sometimes too.

I had barely stepped out of my car at the parking lot of Lake Tomahawk, when I was greeted by these white ducks.  Since the pool is now open, there aren't as many parking places near the Senior Center, so I have to park at the tennis court lot...and walk a ways to get to lunch. But hey, I need the exercise!

I don't know if these tin critters count, just standing by the bookstore in Little Switzerland NC where we visited last Wed. I'll finish the second blog of all those photos soon!

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Today's quote: 

 Being aware of the connection between all things can help you in terms of the broader effect you may be creating.

Just clicking the shutter

 

Last week the market was rather calm at times, then really crowded. 

Then suddenly the iPhone camera started doing this.  I have no idea what it's called. The people seem to float away from the background! (I had commented that I liked how one woman was dancing the samba with her dog, so they let me take their photo!)

Then the camera started giving me the breeds of dogs when I pushed the little "i" button after taking a shot. Wow, I thought, this is neat. But wow also, how did I keep it from focusing mainly on one dog or another? I found the icon which had no name at the top of my camera, and turned it off. Now I have no idea how to turn it back on again!

May I introduce "Bailey" the Burmese Mountain Dog.  A bit itchy, her owners said, all the time.

Cool app that's right in the camera to identify dogs' breeds! But the highlighting thing comes and goes apparently. Wonder how to turn it  on again!

Isn't technology fun?

Now I need to go water plants before another day goes by with rain predicted that never comes. (she said Mon. morning.)

Today's quote:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein 

Critters for this week and...

 At the Black Mountain Tailgate Market May 18,2024

While Amelia was telling me about the Westminster Dog show awards, I saw these canines walking by.

Sorry I missed the photographer's name for this great Road Runner shot showing his iridescent feathers.

And a bonus peak at the sky Thursday afternoon, as I awaited a thunderstorm to appear. But 4 hours later it still had not made it over the mountain ridge. But I didn't water the flowers outside, hoping that rain would take care of them!

And - A Forest is a Kind of Poem - an experience of the forest  as poetry, from Emergence Magazine

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Today's quote:

At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don’t. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought.

TINA TURNER

Just a few of my canine friends from last week

 At the Tailgate Market in Black Mountain, many people bring their dogs. They have to behave...in all good doggie fashion.

It was a sunny cool morning...just right for a stroll around the market.

This sweet blue tick hound sends hi to my granddog, Zora, who lives in CO.

Then there was the man in a kilt and sneakers, and a tee shirt that said Coonhounds.

He said his hound had ADHD and was focusing on one thing at a time. She sure did, making sure she was quite comfortable while he stood in line for baked goods. (wouldn't it be nice to have folks stand in line at our pottery booth?)  And he had no Scottish accent either.

I'm pretty sure this was Rosemary, who's mother makes her dresses. (There's a pet store in Black Mountain (Bone Afide) with everything imaginable, I wonder if these are there...)

I was at an interesting booth selling pottery every once in a while...but had plenty of time to snap some of the pooches. Actually, these are only the first batch!

This lovely lady (Shirley, Shelly?) sat behind our booth at the sidewalk wall. Her family parked there a while and ate.

See you next week!

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Today's quote:

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

RITA DOVE

Just a couple of critters

 Today is International Panda Day

Winter is almost over...soon I can share the buds around the lake. The construction on the dam hasn't started yet.

You can see the mud flats of Lake Tomahawk in the background. It rained yesterday, so most of the lake has water covering it (rather shallow I'd say).

I had to stop and pet these adorable soft little dogs. So no more photos of them!

Just wanted to share them with my blogging friends, who will have many more critters posted! Thanks Eileen for hosting the Saturday Critters.

Today's quote:

 Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. -Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and painter (1919-2021)

Saluda Part 6

Duck Alley had 3 buildings with similar styles and paint colors, very nicely done.

In front of the one right on the highway was a man busy sanding a bench.

He was being watched by this sweet spaniel type dog, who Helen had to give some loving to.

But apparently dog belonged to someone else, perhaps in the real estate office behind him.

More on Duck Alley tomorrow!

Quote for today:

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."  Rachel Carson