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Cloud Adventures

I headed out on my trails looking for adventure again today.

I was hoping for something better than I had the last time I went looking for adventure.

Last time I got attacked by that dog named Clyde, and even though neither of us got hurt it wasn’t the most fun adventure I’d ever had.

So I thought maybe I’d look for something a little milder this time.

Well, I guess I found it.

Mild, that is.

I didn’t have a single adventure on my trails.

Maybe looking for mild is not such a good thing. Next time I’ll have to pump it up a little.

But wait! I might not have had any adventures, but somebody else was having adventures all over the place.

The clouds were going wild.

How’s that for adventure?

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Posted by Bongo on December 6, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: adventure, Cloud, Hiking, Pets, Photography, sun, Trail

What Happened to the Sky?

21 Nov

I know this isn’t so strange for most of my blogging buddies this time of year, but for me it is.

What happened to the sky?

I’ve been looking at blue sky almost every day, but today it’s gone.

Where’d all that gray come from?

And it’s soggy too. It’s a good thing I’m a water dog.

I’ll take water in any way, shape, or form – soggy or not.

But I don’t know what to do with my person.

She’ll look for any excuses to get her camera out and she found some today.

Go ahead person. Keep taking pictures here.

I found some good weeds to munch on.

I finished those weeds and had to drag my person on.

That worked until she found a lost little mushroom that had popped up out of the soil.

It looks like that poor mushroom got dimples from shivering so much. All the other mushrooms hung out when it was warmer.

I finally convinced my person that that mushroom was fine all by itself, but when I stopped in one of my favorite sniffing spots she found something else.

I’m not sure I want to hang around these things for very long.

Some of them have some pretty mean looking teeth.

Let’s get outta here!

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Posted by Bongo on November 21, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Agave, clouds, fungus, manzanita, Mushroom, Pets, Photography, sky, Trail

Where’s My Adventure?

25 Oct

My person took off on an adventure this morning and left me at home with Scratchy.

This is really getting bad. I’m supposed to be the one having adventures, not my person.

And definitely not her camera.

It will be a bright day for sure when my person finally gets tired of that camera and takes me on adventures instead.

Finally my person came back home and took me out on my trails.

I looked all over my trails for some kind of adventure.

No luck.

No adventures anywhere.

I think my person used up all the adventures of the day.

This guy we found on my trails didn’t look like he was having any adventures either.

He was just standing there painting the cactus.

Maybe we can go find an adventure together.

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Posted by Bongo on October 25, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: adventure, art, En plein air, painting, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Fall Assignment

22 Oct

My person has an assignment for her photography class. She’s supposed to take pictures of fall.

That’s really hard on my trails. Except when we get flowers most things look about the same around here all year long.

So I thought I would help my person out.

I remember seeing fall colors somewhere on my trails.

Now if I could just remember where they were.

Oh yeah, here they are.

We had this one little spot of color last year about this time. It’s back again.

You’re in luck, person. That ought to make a great picture for your assignment.

I bet you’ll get an A for sure. I looked really hard to find that fall color for you.

Isn’t it beautiful?

What did you say, person?

You did what?

Hey, wait a minute! Those trees aren’t on my trails.

We don’t have mountains like that on my trails either.

What did you do person?

You went somewhere without me, didn’t you.

You took your camera again and left me at home.

If you get a bad grade on those pictures it’s not my fault.

You should have listened to me.

My trails have the best spot of fall color ever.

Besides, there’s no dog in your pictures.

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Posted by Bongo on October 22, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Aspen Grove, autumn, Autumn leaf color, fall, Flagstaff, Pets, Photography, Trail

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.

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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

Camera Adventures

08 Oct

I think I’m developing a love/hate relationship with my person’s camera.

Sometimes I get stuck at home because that camera gets first dibs on the picture hikes.

But today I got to go somewhere I rarely get to go – because my person wanted to take pictures for her class.

And it was fun.

First we stopped at my buddy Pablo’s house to pick up Pablo and his person. And now I’m really jealous.

I found out that Pablo has a creek near his house. And he doesn’t even care.

My person made me get out of the creek, and then we all got in the car and headed to a trail.

Not one of my trails, mind you. This was a different one.

We got to climb up on Bell Rock.

Right next to Courthouse Butte.

But my person spent so much time taking pictures…

that I had to walk her back to the car in the dark.

It’s a good thing she brought me along. She might have gotten lost without me.

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

Tags: Camera, Hiking, Oak Creek, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail, walk, Water

Third Week of People Mischief

07 Oct

This is the third week in a row that my people have pulled mischief on me.

I am so miserable. It can be really awful having mischief making people.

They both left the house on foot – and they didn’t take me.

Do you believe it? On foot, and they didn’t take me.

My person said I’d been on two walks the day before, so it wouldn’t hurt me to miss my walk.

So now what I want to know is who told her? My walks with my neighbor dog Toby when she leaves me all day are supposed to be a secret.

I pointed out that it is National Walk Your Dog Week and my person said I could have walks the rest of the week.

She said they were going into coyote territory and they didn’t want me trying to give any of those coyotes what for.

Well, they didn’t see or hear a coyote, but they did get attacked.

By cactus pricklers ,thorny bushes, and loose rocks. My person came home full of scratches.

They should have taken me. I would have protected them.

But it’s all about that camera still. At least my person showed me where they went.

Next week there’s going to be some new mischief.

That camera will be missing when I’m through.

But I won’t get into trouble for anything because Scratchy pulls all the mischief around here.

Now if I could only convince my people…

Click here to find more mischievous pets.

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Posted by Bongo on October 7, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Coyote, Hiking, Mogollon Rim, Pets, Photography, Recreation, Scratchy, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Waiting for the Camera

05 Oct

Finally!

My person let me go for a walk with her and her new camera.

Maybe it was because I helped her with her homework by jumping for all those pictures at the dog park.

Anyway, playing second fiddle to a camera is no fun. Now I’ve just got to figure out how to make that camera play second fiddle to me.

It’s okay to go on walks with that camera, but it’s much more fun without it.

I have to wait around while my person fiddles with the knobs and dials on that camera – and then finally takes a picture.

And it’s never a picture of me.

What’s with all these strange things anyway?

They don’t even smell good.

And what makes it even worse is you can’t smell anything in a picture.

I’ll never figure out what people see in these pictures.

Guess I’ll just hang out here and wait.

My person will get tired of that non-smelly camera one of these days.

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Posted by Bongo on October 5, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, Flower, Pets, Photography

Homework at the Dog Park

01 Oct

I take everything back that I said about my person’s new camera. At least for now.

And here’s why.

My person’s photography class assignment for this week is “Motion.”

And who could come up with something more filled with motion than me?

So I got to go to the dog park today, where there’s lots of room to move.

And my person brought Frisbees and balls along – and her camera.

When we first got to the dog park there was one other dog hanging out. And it turned out to be my good buddy Pablo. I think my person planned that because she didn’t seem surprised.

But then my girlfriend Layla arrived. A regular dog party!

After I got done sniffing around I had to get to work. And it was the most fun work I’ve done in a long time. I guess it will work better if I just show you.

And they even gave me a place to wash off afterwards.

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Posted by Bongo on October 1, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Activities, ball, Dog Park, Frisbee, Layla, Pablo, Pets, Photography, Recreation

Too Many Cameras

26 Sep

I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

My person has this new camera and she won’t let me go with her when she takes it

Something about me jostling her or knocking her over or something.

I wouldn’t do that. All my friends who know me know that I would never do anything like that.

Okay, maybe I did that once.

Well, twice then.

I did not do it that many times!

But since I’m not allowed to go out at the same time as that new camera, you’d think I’d at least get some camera free walks.

Walks where I can go wherever I please, sniff as long as I want, and never have to wait while my person takes pictures.

But no. My person still takes her little camera every time we go out for a walk.

If she just took pictures of me on our walks I wouldn’t mind so much. I mean, that’s why she takes the camera. So she can document (I think that word’s too big for me) my adventures for my blog.

But she always finds something else to take pictures of.

And it’s flower season again.