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Not Time for Flowers

I just can’t win sometimes.

In the spring we get lots of flowers here and I’m constantly having to hang around while my person gets her camera out and takes pictures of them. And it seems like she takes forever.

Then in the fall when the weather cools down we get a few more flowers.

But in the middle of the summer I’m usually pretty safe. Not many flowers grow when it’s so hot.

But I just found flowers on this little bush here.

Maybe if I water it or something my person will want to leave.

Oops. Too late.

I’ve got to move faster next time.

Oh no!

There were a bunch of these white things in this spot a couple years ago, but I thought I’d gotten rid of them because I didn’t see any last year.

Come on, person. Move along! There’s nothing of interest here.

***

Whew! She went for it.

Hey! What are these doing here? I thought the catclaw were done blooming. What is it with this late bloomer?

***

Finally, we made it back home. I don’t have to wait any longer while my person takes pictures.

What!? Wait a minute! What are you doing, person?

You don’t need to do that.

I’m not even safe in my own backyard.

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Posted by Bongo on August 10, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: catclaw blossom, Flower, Late bloomer, Morning glory, Pets, Photography, trumpet vine

Strange New Plants

20 Jul

It’s been hot here, and very dry until the last few days.

The wildflowers we had in the spring are gone. We’ll probably have a few more in the fall, but for now things are looking pretty bleak.

At least I thought they were bleak.

But there have been some really strange things showing up on my trails lately.

Like the pink flower in my trail’s parking lot.

I’ve never seen anything like it before.

It almost looks like a miniature firework that burst on the ground and never made it into the air.

I wonder what kind of flower this is – or if I’ll see any more of them.

I might have to get my person to search it out on the internet. Sometimes she finds the names of plants on my trails there.

This pink flower isn’t the only strange plant I’ve found on my trails lately.

Some plants must really like the heat of summer.

I haven’t figured out though if this other thing is a flower or a fruit.

I found it growing on a bush, right next to the trail.

I wonder what kind of bush the internet would say this is.

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Posted by Bongo on July 20, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Plant, Trail

Useless Yellow Flowers

08 May

I don’t know what’s so special about these flowers. They don’t even smell good. No one’s left any messages here.

Check this out.

See these weeds here? These dried up weeds? They’re much more appetizing that any old yellow flowers.

Why don’t you take some pictures of these, person? I could hang them on the wall near my bed and look at them when I’m not on my trails.

I can’t believe it! There she goes right back to those flowers. No matter how much I tell her what’s important, she still doesn’t get it.

I think I’m about to give up on people. They like all the strangest things, and they don’t seem to care about any of the good things in life.

Person, if you can’t take pictures of any of the right stuff just put your camera away.

See, she did it anyway. Total disrespect. She just won’t listen to me.

Now put your camera away, person.

You found a what?

Wait a minute. What? What?

Someone’s trying to take over my yellow flowers?

How dare that butterfly hang around here?

You did send that butterfly away, didn’t you person?

Those yellow flowers are mine.

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Posted by Bongo on May 8, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: butterfly, Flower, Pets, Photography, weeds, yellow flowers

Detective Business is Slow

23 Apr

I put on my Detective Dog hat, but I’m not really sure if this if a mystery worthy of Detective Dog or not.

But I wanted an excuse to put that hat on again. It’s been awhile. Things have been slow on my trails and I haven’t come across any mysteries that need solving.

I think it’s all those flowers out there. My person gets so busy with her camera taking pictures of them that the mysteries just pass us by and I miss them.

Maybe that’s the mystery I should be solving. How to get rid of those flowers – or how to make my person leave her camera at home.

But no, I’ve got another mystery to work on today.

My person has been so busy lately that she hasn’t put any flowers in our garden. That’s okay by me because the weeds still grow there and some of them make tasty treats.

But somebody must have decided that we still need flowers because they gave us a flower that doesn’t have to be replaced every year.

Out in the rocks that line the culvert in front of our yard a permanent flower appeared.

A silk flower to decorate the culvert.

So the real mystery is not who left the flower, but why we got a fake flower instead of a real one.

I like to do the watering and this flower doesn’t need any water.

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Posted by Bongo on April 23, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Detective Dog, Flower, Mystery, Pets

First Flower

28 Feb

You see this? This little flower here? It’s the first flower of the season.

Not very impressive, is it?

But this little flower means something that I don’t like to think about. It means that soon there will be more flowers.

I don’t think much of flowers. You can’t eat them. I don’t care what they look like.

But for some reason my person cares.

And she’s always getting her camera out to take pictures of them.

Hey person, here I am. Take some pictures of me.

But no. When those flowers are out that’s all she seems to care about.

And all I want to do is go for a walk.

Maybe I should take up gardening. Maybe if I put some of those flowers in our yard my walks wouldn’t be constantly interrupted by the camera.

My person could take pictures of my lovely garden instead.

I’m good at digging.

And I’m good at watering too.

Now all I need are a few seeds.

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Posted by Bongo on February 28, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: digging, Flower, Pets

Last Flower of the Season

07 Nov

You’d think it was the last wildflower ever the way my person is taking pictures of it. Yeah, I suppose it might be the last flower of the season – but is it really that special?

I mean, look. It’s a puny little purple thing. The only one on the bush. If that even is a bush. I think it’s really a bunch of weedy little suckers winding their way around the rocks. And they just happened to have one tiny flower – the last throwback of summer.

So can we go now? And leave that little thing to die a wintry death? Yeah, I know it’s not winter here yet but it will be soon. Believe me. I checked the weather and I feel winter on its way.

Yeah, I know it felt like summer today, but It’s coming. So forget about that flower because it’s gonna be gone.

***

What? You’re done taking pictures and you want to go now?

Wait a minute. I’m not ready to go.

I’m not finished with these weeds. Go ahead and take some more pictures.

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Posted by Bongo on November 7, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, Winter

Flower Unseason

25 Oct

I’m working on another mystery, and as usual, this one has to do with my trails. You see, a couple of days ago my person and I were trekking through a part of my trails that we don’t usually go on, and we saw something strange.

We saw flowers.

That wouldn’t be so unusual in itself, except that it isn’t flower season anymore. Of course my person had to stop and take pictures of them. At least there were some weeds to munch on next to the flowers. Otherwise I would have been upset about having to wait while my person took pictures – again.

But I’m still working on that mystery. Why were those flowers there at the wrong time of year? There’s something really suspicious going on here.

Wait! Something’s coming to me. When we saw those flowers, weren’t we on our way to see the artists who were painting on my trails?

That’s why we saw those flowers – because we went a different way so we could get to where they were.

And what were those long sticks called that those artists were using?

That’s it! Paint brushes.

And what are those flowers called?

Yup. Indian Paintbrush.

I’ve got it! I’ve solved the mystery.

Those artists left those flowers there. They were painting pictures of red rocks and I bet that since they were in Sedona they wanted to use Sedona paintbrushes. But then when they got all the red paint they needed, they left those Indian paintbrushes in the ground.

Woo woo! Detective Dog figures it out again.

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Posted by Bongo on October 25, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Indian Paintbrush, paintbrush, Pets, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Fairies

11 Oct

I keep waiting for the flowers to go away so I don’t have to stop every time my person wants to take a picture of them. When they’re gone we’ll be able go twice as far in the same amount of time.

But at least now I’m getting some hope. Did you notice what’s hanging out with these flowers? There are big ones.

And little tiny ones. Fairies are everywhere on these flowers.

And you know what fairies do? They go flying off with the flowers. I’ve seen them floating around in the air – and soon there won’t be any flowers left.

I’m not sure how those fairies do it. Maybe they take those flowers and drop them into a giant hole in the ground. Or maybe they pull the flowers apart petal by petal and leave them to shrivel up and die.

Whatever they do, it’s alright with me. Anything to keep my person from stopping all the time to take pictures.

But there’s one thing I hope those fairies don’t do.

Fairies, please don’t take away my weeds.

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Posted by Bongo on October 11, 2012 in Bongo

Tags: Fairies, Fairy, Flower, Petal, Pets, Photography

Under a Tree

05 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

I really blew it the other day. I’m not sure how it happened. I was hanging out waiting while my person had her camera out – again. She was taking those sunflower pictures that were on yesterday’s post.

I got tired of waiting and found some good smells under a tree.

I didn’t think anything of it. Someone had left me a message and I was getting ready to leave one back – when I looked up and here comes my person, crawling under the tree toward me.

Come on, person. I’m not doing anything – really. I’m just checking out the messages around here.

Hey person, you look really silly all stooped down and crawling around under this tree. This is dog’s territory. People aren’t supposed to be under here.

You’re not going to make me go back home already, are you? We haven’t even gone on our walk yet. Why don’t you crawl back out of here so we can go?

I’m not in trouble, am I?

I couldn’t believe it. Was my person going nuts? Does she think she’s a dog now? I quickly left a message on those flowers, hoping that would make my person turn around and find her way out of there.

But you know what she did? She whipped out her camera instead. Sometimes I just can’t figure people out.

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Posted by Bongo on October 5, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, Trail

Globe Mallow

01 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

My person went off to Colorado and I’m stuck in the dog hotel. I wasn’t allowed to bring the computer with me so I take no responsibility for what is posted on my blog.

Lately my person has been making me hang out and wait a lot while she gets her camera out to take pictures. It’s flower season again on my trails but the globe mallow usually hangs out all summer long.

For some reason these flowers just started coming out this year. A couple of them tried to make it early in the summer but they fizzled out. It was really hot and dry before that dreaded thunder season started.