My Sweet Pumpkin

My big baby is hanging in there, toughing it out with a continued sweet disposition. Her 12th birthday is on Halloween, and I think she may make it. How I love her.

June Pumpkin

Big baby Pumpkin, aka putty nosed Pumpkin, spends more time resting these days, but will still romp and play, if only for a bit. Judy and I totally adore her.

Sweet Sleepy Pumpkin

I cherish this dog, and as I watch her age I worry about her and love her all the harder. I also have the sense she is doing the same, in touch with fleeting time. My big baby.

Early Spring Pumpkin

My good friend Katherine at Photobooth Journal told me it was time for another Pumpkin portrait, so here we go. Pumpkin is 11, in good health,  and loved deeply.

Sleepy Pumpkin

Pumpkin likes to spend chilly days sleeping under a warm skylight. Smart girl.

Pumpkin’s Birthday Portrait

My sweet girl will be eleven on Halloween, and I love her madly. Isn’t she a beauty.

Mountain Range

We are enjoying a great vacation in the San Juan mountain range above Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We are in a comfortable motorhome in clean, cool air. Truly fabulous.

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Nesting Robin

We have lived in this house for sixteen Springs, but only in the last two has a robin’s nest been built in the identical location, where a gutter downspout meets my home. Last year we had three baby birds, and perhaps the same parents have again nested. Joy!

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Pumpkin’s Spring Portrait

Now 10 1/2 years old and in good health, Pumpkin continues to enjoy her off leash walks. She is loved fully, and returns that joy a hundred times over. What a gift she is.

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Pumpkin’s Birthday Portrait

© 2014 Michael Fiveson

Falling leaves and good light compelled me to shoot Pumpkin for her official birthday portrait, even though she won’t be ten until Halloween. I love this girl beyond reason, and I am a lucky man to have had her for a decade. I want her forever.

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