3/12 .. Miss Woolly Ponder

For the March challenge for 12 Months For Dogs group, we were asked for a different perspective or viewpoint, which gave a lot of scope to be creative.

 

Yes, left it to the last minute again ... found it hard to choose which pic to post as so many different approaches could've been used.

 

Finally decided on this one, mainly because I wanted to keep in the flow of my farm series for now.

 

On first joining Flickr, I was so captivated by Marco Sgarbi's 'Merammano' images on his own farm in Italy.

 

I've done mostly and many of Miss W as the show pony/diva/Dogue cover girl, or chuckling, Happy Face MW, so this is a break away from my usual style of her, more thoughtful, introspective …. ignoring me and the camera for a change.

 

I look at this one and I'm reminded that Merammas, along with other livestock guardians like the Great Pyranees and Kuvasz, are an Old World Breed with a history of thousands of years.

 

And with that comes a certain stoicism and endurance in character.

Definitely inspired by Marco..

 

(Tho' I have to laugh ... the other day on our walk, a little girl declared loudly to her mother, "Look Mummy, there's a wolf over there!"

Gosh, it brought up such an old memory from probably back in kindergarten, 1963, a school playground game we used to play, called Whitie The WonderDog, where this hero dog - yes, pure white - would go rescue people in trouble…

Where on earth did we get this idea from?

I'm sure none of us had TV yet and most certainly hadn't even heard of The Adventures of TinTin…)

 

Well anyway, a reflective mood for Lent and Passover/Pesach....

Enjoy your week, everyone x

 

BTW, no edits ..

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