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Little Yellow Flowers

This time of year everything seems to turn yellow. Well, I don’t mean everything. I don’t turn yellow, and neither does my person. And the rocks around here don’t turn yellow. But there are bushes everywhere with little yellow flowers on them.

There’s so many that I have to sort through them just to get to the good weeds.

And I have to sit around while my person takes out her camera to take pictures of them.

I thought this time of year was going to be so good. No more thunder and no more heat. Who would have thought that little yellow flowers would be my downfall? I think I’ll bury my person’s camera under a log.

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Posted by Bongo on September 26, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail, yellow flowers

Evening Glory

19 Sep

We have two main wildflower seasons here. In late spring and early summer the cactus bloom, and then in late summer and early fall other things bloom. So right now I have to drag my person along when she tries to stop and take pictures of all those flowers.

I got lucky with this morning glory plant. It’s called morning glory for a reason. Morning is when the flowers are open, and then they close up for the day. So whenever we walked by the plant the flowers were closed up and my person had nothing to take pictures of.

But something strange happened. We walked by and there was a flower in full bloom. I think somebody needs to straighten this plant out. Its name is not evening glory. Come on flower – close up quick. You’re not playing by the rules.

That flower didn’t listen any better than my person does sometimes. It stayed open showing of its full glory – its full evening glory.

What else can I do? Guess I’ll chew on a few weeds until my person puts her camera away. How’s that for glory?

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Posted by Bongo on September 19, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Morning glory, Pets, Photography

Stop and Go

26 May

My person is the slowest walker sometimes. I can’t believe she keeps finding more flowers to take pictures of. I think she must have taken a picture of every flower on my trails. She must think so too because today we went a different way than we usually go so she could find more flowers to take pictures of.

At least this different way is longer than my usual way so I got to be out on my trails longer, but it was stop and go all the way.

Okay, I admit I made my person stop a few times too. But this log was really interesting and I don’t know when we’ll be this way again so I’ve got to check it out.

Just because I stopped once doesn’t mean my person has to keep stopping. We were almost home and she found even more flowers to take pictures of.

I’m really mad now because if my person hadn’t stopped so much we would have made it home before that rabbit ran out of my yard. If I’d only been a few minutes earlier I could have checked that rabbit out too.

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Posted by Bongo on May 26, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Trail

No More Flowers

25 May

Most of the flowers on my trails are starting to fade and I’m kind of happy about it. I’m getting tired of my person stopping every few feet to take flower pictures. Aren’t we supposed to be walking when we go out on my trails? I mean, it is called a walk, isn’t it?

My person makes me stay around her when she’s taking pictures and it’s really boring. I start looking for some good weeds to munch on and she gets mad at me for it and yanks me away from them. Or I try to run off down the trail – and then, boing! I hit the end of my leash. And my person yanks me back when I do that too.

So it’s good that we’re running out of flowers for my person to take pictures of. Well, I thought we were anyway. We were walking along the trail and I saw something yellow that wasn’t there before. And then another – and another.

Oh, no! It’s the prickly pears. They’re starting to bloom. And the prickly pears are everywhere on my trails. And they all have lots of flowers. If my person tries to take pictures of all those flowers I’ll never get my walk. We’ll be stopping and going forever. Click, click, click.

It’s bad enough that I have to hang around and wait for my person while she’s taking pictures. But what if she doesn’t finish before it’s time for dinner?

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

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, prickly pear, Trail

What’s the Real Story?

16 May

My person tried to tell me yesterday that we couldn’t go in my wash because of some invisible things. I didn’t believe her. I think she was just making excuses for not going in my wash.

But I just remembered something. The day before when we were in the wash, we walked past my red flowers like we usually do. These flowers like to hang out in my wash. I’ve never seen them leave it. There are a few that creep up to the edge of the wash, but they don’t get out.

Normally these flowers are very quiet. They don’t even move much, unless there’s a breeze. But this last time we walked by they were very noisy. They were making a buzzing sound.

And there was movement all through those flowers. It almost looked like the flowers were jumping off their stems so they could visit each other, but none of the visitor flowers were red like the others.

When I looked closer I realized that all of those visitors were bees. The flowers were full of bees. Where did they all come from? They’d never been around before.

But before Detective Dog shows his hat on the question of bees, I’m still working on those invisible things my person told me about yesterday.

Now I think she made up that “no see ‘em” story because she didn’t want to bother the bees. I’m not buying it. She’s going to have to come up with a better story.

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Posted by Bongo on May 16, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: bees, Flower, penstemon, Pets

Yucca Yellow Flowers

10 May

Nothing exciting happened today. I don’t know what I’m going to write about. All I saw was this darn yucca plant with yellow flowers in it.

My friend Rumpy is having a poetry day on Friday and I’ve been trying to think what I should write – so maybe I’ll get some poetry practice in now. I’ve got to fill up the space with something. So here goes.

Yucca Yellow Flowers

Last year I yearned for adventure

Much more than I found in my yard

Scratchy offered me yarn and a yo-yo

and I yelped when I bit it too hard

My younger person served me some yogurt

and yummy it turned out to be

but I let out a yap when he didn’t

say yes to my need to be free

Yesterday I ran for my trails

Off yonder I started to cower

And I yelled when I felt the sharp poke of

a yucca with yellow flowers

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Posted by Bongo on May 10, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, poetry, Scratchy, Trail, Yucca

Red Things and Round Balls

24 Apr

I was walking along my trails today and I noticed that things had changed. Yesterday in this spot there were a bunch of green leaves here.

Today, those green leaves have red things poking out all over. I sniffed around trying to figure out where those red things were coming from, but I couldn’t figure it out. I guess I’d better put on my detective hat.

While I was still pondering all those red things I found these little round balls all over the Manzanita bushes. These are the same bushes that had flowers on them in January. Where have all the flowers gone? I’m not sure but I think those little round balls took them away.

Detective Dog is getting really flustered now. Red things and round balls. What next? I walked on a little way and almost stopped in my tracks. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, right on my trails. Juniper trees don’t have flowers, but this one had flowers hanging all through it. I’m not sure if I can get to the bottom of this one. I might have to climb that tree to do it. Maybe if I’m really nice to Scratchy he’ll climb it for me.

I was about ready to give up and go home. Too many mysteries for me. Then I saw it. A symphony of daisies with a globe mallow conductor. Maybe they can sooth my troubled brain to sleep with their music.

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Posted by Bongo on April 24, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Pets, spring, Trail

Who Left Me Flowers?

17 Apr

For me? I found a bouquet of flowers on my trails. Somebody must have known I was coming and left them here for me. Maybe it was my girlfriend Lucy. I haven’t seen her in awhile. I bet she misses me and wanted to leave these flowers for me.

What, person? You don’t think Lucy left these here? Of course she did. She loves me.

Well if Lucy didn’t leave these, then who?

Maybe it was my new friend Houdini thanking me for letting him come to my house until his person came for him. I bet that was it. I bet he escaped again and when he didn’t find me he decided to leave these flowers for me.

Or maybe it was my friends from New York who got lost on my trails. Maybe after they found New York again they came back to leave me these flowers for helping them find their way home.

You think I’m still wrong, person? Then who left these for me?

He did? These flowers are a special gift from God? Woo woo! Now I am really special. Hey person, what do you think I can leave on my trails for God?

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Posted by Bongo on April 17, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Trail