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Big Mistake

04 Oct

Boy did I make a big mistake today.

A really big one.

Here’s what happened.

I took my person for a walk and we got to the place where we usually turn around and head back.

It was a really nice day and I wasn’t ready to head back yet.

So I kept on going.

Up the dry wash.

Usually my person won’t let me go further, but today she did.

And that was the biggest mistake of all.

***

Because you know what my person did then?

She found flowers.

And not just a few flowers.

She found red ones, and purple ones, and yellow ones.

Can we go now, person?

This is getting really boring.

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Posted by Bongo on October 4, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, flowers, mistake, Pets, Photography, purple flowers, red flowers, Trail, walk, yellow flowers

Look Over There

03 Oct

Hey person, look over there.

No, no person.

.

You’re looking in the totally wrong direction.

Don’t look over here.

It’s over there I want you to look.

***

I knew it!

I just can’t keep my person and her camera away from flowers.

Does anybody want a well used camera?

I’m giving one away.

As soon as I can wrestle it away from my person.

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Posted by Bongo on October 3, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, flowers, Pets, Photography, Trail, Wildflower, yellow flowers

Photobombing the Flowers

13 Sep

In the spring we get lots of flowers and then most of them disappear for the summer.

And this time of year more flowers show up.

Lots of yellow flowers and a few purple ones too.

Anyone who’s known me for awhile knows how frustrated I get when my person starts taking pictures of flowers.

Well, she did it again.

.

She went after those purple flowers.

So I decided it was about time I do something about it.

What if I…

…photobomb her flower pics.

So I started getting in the way every time my person got her camera out.

Until I realized I didn’t need to do that anymore.

Because…

…an ant had beaten me to it.

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Posted by Bongo on September 13, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: ant, flowers, Outdoors, Pets, photobomb, Photography, purple flowers, Trail

Too Many Flowers

13 May

They’re everywhere this year.

Spots of magenta peeking out from the browns and greens of my trails.

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It’s kind of like an Easter egg hunt.

Little spots of color popping up when you least expect it.

But I’m going to have to practice my photobombing.

Because my person has to get her camera out every time we pass one of those things.

I don’t know what she sees in those things.

They don’t even smell good.

And none of my friends leave messages on them.

That could be disastrous.

All I can hope for is that their blooming season is over very soon.

***

Wait! What?

This is terrible!

The hedgehogs are still in full bloom and the prickly pear are already starting up?

What am I going to do?

Two kinds of cacti blooming at the same time.

I think I’ve got a lot of boring walks to look forward to.

Time for another photobomb.

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Posted by Bongo on May 13, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, cactus flowers, flowers, hedgehog cactus, Pets, photobomb, Photography, prickly pear

Missing the Photo Ops

30 Apr

We heard a really bad flute player on my trails today.

She was hanging out with the rock piles.

But my person wouldn’t take a picture.

Something about embarrassing the flute player.

I don’t know why she would have been embarrassed by having her picture taken.

Now if my person had recorded her playing the flute she probably would have hid under all those rock piles.

It would have been really embarrassing.

So we walked on and we saw a snake.

And my person still wouldn’t take a picture.

Something about the snake hiding before she could get her camera out.

She could have just yanked it by the tail before it got away.

It didn’t have one of those rattler things on it that I’m not supposed to play with.

But that didn’t happen.

So what does my person take a picture of?

Flowers!

Do you believe it?

All those good photo opportunities and she takes pictures of flowers.

So I decided I was going to do something about those flowers so my person couldn’t take any more pictures of them.

Help!

Those flowers must be powered by aliens.

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Posted by Bongo on April 30, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: flowers, Flute, penstemon, Pets, Snake, Trail

Almost an Adventure

29 Apr

My person has been glued to the computer the last few days.

Even more than usual.

So I haven’t been having many adventures.

Well, she is still letting me take her for walks on my trails, but she never wants to take the extra time to have an adventure.

So I don’t have anything to tell you today.

The best I can come up with is a soon to be adventure.

And it has to do with flowers, so you know I’m desperate.

They’ve got their mouths open so you know they’re looking for something to eat.

.

But what they don’t know is that they’re about to be eaten themselves.

By a cactus!

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Posted by Bongo on April 29, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: adventure, flowers, Pets, prickly pear

Hurry on By

21 Mar

I was so hoping that after the first day of spring no more flowers would show up.

But I was wrong.

Bunches of new flowers were on my trails today.

And of course my person had to stop and take pictures of all of them.

Like this Indian paintbrush.

This is the worst kind of flower, because it stands out wherever it is.

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You can’t miss it, so I’ve got no chance of walking by quickly and hoping my person doesn’t see it.

But I discovered something today.

Something good.

Whenever my person stops to take flower pictures…

I can usually find some tasty weeds nearby.

And if my person doesn’t want me eating weeds she’s got to stop taking pictures.

Pretty good plan, don’t you think?

Take this white flower for example.

I had to search a little harder for the weeds.

But I found them.

***

Wait a minute.

I don’t see any weeds around this strange flower.

What is this flower anyway?

I’ve never seen anything like it on my trails.

My person will want to take pictures of this for sure.

I’d better hurry her along.

Maybe she won’t notice it.

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Posted by Bongo on March 21, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: flowers, Indian Paintbrush, Pets, pictures, spring, Trail, weeds

Happy Spring!

20 Mar

Some flowers popped out on my trails today.

I tried to walk by them really fast and hope my person wouldn’t notice – but she did.

And of course she had to stop and take pictures.

She looks for any excuse to get out her camera.

So while I hung around waiting for my person to finish taking pictures I realized something.

Today is the first day of spring.

So these flowers came out to celebrate.

And tomorrow won’t be a special day anymore.

So maybe the rest of the flowers on my trails will realize they missed their chance and they won’t show up this year.

I mean, what’s a flower if it misses the first day of spring?

And if I keep my person occupied enough with walking, she won’t stop and take pictures of anything else either.

Come on, person. We’ve got places to go – trails to explore.

A trail is no place for a camera, and tomorrow I’m sure there won’t be any flowers showing up.

So happy first day of Spring!

The only day with flowers to take pictures of.

***

What, person?

What do you mean, these are the first of bunches of flowers on my trails?

You’re going to make me wait while you take pictures of them all spring and summer?

That’s terrible!

What am I going to do?

I think I’m going to have to find some new trails for awhile.

30 Comments

Posted by Bongo on March 20, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, First Day of Spring, flowers, Outdoors, Pets, spring, Trail, yellow flowers

The Missing Walk

19 Oct

I was really excited today because my person let me head up the dry wash.

I’m always trying to pull her up this wash and most of the time she says no and pulls back.

So I figured we’d get a nice, long walk today.

Well, I figured wrong.

We got a little way up the wash – a few feet, no more. And then what does she do.

She pulls out her camera.

She didn’t want to go on a walk with me. She wanted to take pictures.

And she picked the strangest things to take pictures of.

If she wanted to take pictures of me, that would be one thing.

But no, she wanted to take pictures of…

flowers,

and fairies.

And this is the worst one.

She took pictures of catclaws.

Couldn’t she at least have found some dog paws to take pictures of instead?

Hey person, I’m over here. Point your camera this way.

Now start walking.

22 Comments

Posted by Bongo on October 19, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: catclaw seed pods, dry wash, flowers, Hiking, Outdoors, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, walk

That’s Not How You Do It

28 Sep

I don’t get it. My person just doesn’t make sense at all.

Normally she doesn’t care about smells.

But today she’s walking along the trails saying how good things smell.

I don’t think she gets it.

I smell things in the air all the time. But I don’t smell anything special today.

Different maybe, but not special.

I guess I’ve got to train my person.

It’s not the air smells that count.

You’ve got to get up close and personal to really smell things. To really get the message.

That’s better person, but not good enough.

You’ve got to stick your nose right into those flowers.

What do you mean, you don’t want to do that? You’re trying to get all the best smells, aren’t you?

You cannot smell all best smells from that far away.

I don’t believe it!

Do I have to show you person?

Oh, does that smell good. One of my best friends was by here not too long ago.

Okay person, now you try.

19 Comments

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

Tags: flowers, Fragrance, Pets, Smell, Trail

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