pilots n paws -- on a mission

this is a wonderful organization that makes me smile every time i read about it: pilots n paws. an organization that uses private planes and charitable pilots to fly dogs to no kill shelters in different areas across the u.s. according to usa today, they've set a lofty goal to save 5,000 dogs in september. fingers are crossed.

to read more, go to usa today or pilots n paws.

photo contest

In an effort to follow the artist's way...to stop being a shadow artist and become the real artist i'm destined to be, i entered into the "world in focus" photography contest. just one entry, but a starting point to more hopefully.

here's your chance to vote for my photograph: children at play, rio de janeiro. feel free to pass the link along and we'll see what happens when we're done.

next up: the dog stalker exhibition.

carcassonne

jacques prevert

The Garden

Thousands and thousands of years
Would not be enough
To tell of
That small second of eternity
When you held me
When I held you
One morning
In winter's light
In Montsouris Park
In Paris
On earth
This earth
That is a star

Paris at Night

Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see your face in it's entirety
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the darkness all around to remind me of all these
As I hold you in my arms.