{"id":11067,"date":"2016-02-15T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:42:02","slug":"walking-the-dog-taking-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/walking-the-dog-taking-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Walks with Harley the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photos shot while walking Harley the Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harley the Dog wants walking twice a day. This is, perhaps, more walking than a lot of dogs get and I tell Harley this when he seems sad.<\/p>\n

“Harley,” I say, “you get more walkies than many dogs I have met and you get company all day long and maybe you could take a minute and ease up on your blues because little man, your life is pretty good now.”<\/p>\n

Harley rarely answers, he just looks at me with his root beer colored eyes and then, we go for a walk and almost immediately, he gets a little skip in his step and his tail goes up and he is cheerier.<\/p>\n

“Less talk, more walk,” Harley would say, if he could say anything.\u00a0 Also, he’d give me that handout about shelter dogs and how they take a while to become themselves and maybe their owners could just chill and let them be sad because that was a tough time, man.<\/p>\n

\u00a7<\/p>\n

It is good to go for a walk twice a day; I have been enjoying it tremendously. Seattle is a rainy city so it would be a lie to say it’s always pleasant, but walking twice a day, rain or shine, has made me look at what is happening in my neighborhood in new ways.<\/p>\n

When Harley the Dog stops to get his nose well into a grassy plant — he has an obvious preferences for grassier vegetation — I look around at the way the water is beading up on the leaves of a rose bush or the pattern of lichen growing on some tree branches or, over the last few days, the embellishments on the gravestones in Eugene, Oregon’s historic Masonic Cemetery<\/a> where many of that city’s founders are buried.<\/p>\n

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Are we going or what?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Harley’s sniffer is deep in a scrub of dandelion, at the other end of the lead, I am fussing with the focal point on my phone because I want those little beads of water along the serrated edge of the leaf to be sharp. Harley is usually done before I am at which time we move either several blocks or a few feet up the road until one of us finds a thing we need to study, either with our nose or our eyes depending on where we are on the leash.<\/p>\n

In this way, we are weirdly suited to each other. It takes me forever to get anywhere, I am always stopping to look at something. Sometimes Harley speaks to me when I am taking too long, or he pulls at the lead and shakes my hand and the shot is ruined. Sometimes, I speak to Harley when he is taking too long, and I say, “Let’s go,” and start walking, breaking his concentration on that one spot underneath the rosemary bush and his research his ruined. Fair’s fair.<\/p>\n

\u00a7<\/p>\n

Harley does not have a Instanose feed (he is on Instagram, here<\/a>), but I have been taking a lot of photos of little details while we walk and posting them to Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0 I should probably start carrying a better camera than my phone, but I’m all about using what’s in my pocket. Harley’s treats are in there too. He gets yummy things for being patient and I get some decent photos.<\/p>\n

It’s not a bad arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harley the Dog wants walking twice a day. This is, perhaps, more walking than a lot of dogs get and I tell Harley this when he seems sad. “Harley,” I say, “you get more walkies than many dogs I have met and you get company all day long and maybe you could take a minute … <\/p>\n


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