The Ides...

You haven't appreciated the simple things until you've witnessed the pure bliss on a dog's face while she devours a peanut-butter frosty paws. (The whole thing this time... a birthday treat!) How on earth she bends her nose like that I'll never know.

Here's to my magpie.

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

–Maurice Maeterlinck