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Travvy the RedJuly 28, 2009 I just reacquainted myself with my trusty little Canon PowerShot. It's been so long since I used it that I had to reload the software, which was wiped in the mid-April Windows crash, and refresh my recollection of what all those teeny damn buttons mean. I can't wait till all these digital gadget designers hit their fifties and have to fish their reading glasses out of whatever pile of junk they're buried under before they can decipher the labels on their gadgets. Anyway, we're back in business now, and of course I had to practice on the most photogenic resident. In these photos you can see the red tinge that's been appearing in his coat. So far it's mostly on his front half, and most noticeable on his head and ruff. Malamute people call this "sable." It's a reddish-brown color, caused by phaeomelanin (I learned that off a neat website on malamute coat color genetics). The color can be present at birth, it can show up as the dog ages, and it can also lighten or darken over time. Trouble, Travvy's dad, is gray, sable, and white; Mayhem, his mom, is gray and white. His entire litter started off gray and white. I wonder how many of the others have started showing red. For Fellow Traveller a distinct red tinge seems singularly appropriate. Here's Travvy!
Travvy on the deck. I leave him there sometimes when I go out. He watches me go (guilt, guilt, guilt) then woo-woos vigorously when I come back up the stairs. Unfortunately my PowerShot doesn't do the sound effects.
Also on the deck, in the shade of the plastic round table. Between the rail supports at upper right can be glimpsed the clothesline, and on it my blue towel. This towel is supposed to live next to my outdoor shower, which is under the deck, but every time it rains, the towel gets soaked, and it's rained so often this summer that the towel is usually on the line. When I hang laundry (these days it's mostly T-shirts), Trav keeps an eye out from above.
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