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From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
Adam here, filling in for Alain who is, literally, on the road. As in he’s off somewhere away from home and computer and, as a result, you’re stuck with me at this ungodly hour! Alain will be back tomorrow.
On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!
Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Today, pictures from me. Of other people’s dogs. The first five dogs are from the two weekends in March 2008 right before my teammates and I deployed to Iraq with the brigade combat team we were attached too. We had long weekends as the brigade was on leave to spend time with their families before deploying.
First up, some dogs in Scotland.
Just look at that face! This was taken at Stirling Castle while this exceptionally good boy was out for a walk!
This exceptionally friendly fellow made his home at a beautiful house just across from that ruined church and Templar cemetery in Temple, Scotland I posted about when covering for Alain last year.
You can go visit the ruins, once I get the scritches!!!!
Look at those eyes!
Here are a couple of doggos out for some exercise on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Here’s a pair of dogs out for a walk in the quadrangle neat St. Auden’s Church in Dublin the following weekend:
And finally, here’s a trio of beautiful dogs in Iraq. I took this picture during the summer of 2018.
That’s it for me and a bunch of other people’s exceptionally good dogs! Alain will be back tomorrow.
Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.
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?BillinGlendaleCA
Hmmm, the preview of the pic for today’s OTR in Cole’s Twitter feed isn’t in the ORT pics. The picture in Cole’s Twitter feed looks vaguely familiar.
rikyrah
Loved the pictures :)
JPL
What’s not to like about today’s pics. Scritches for all of them.
Mary G
Puppies!
WaterGirl
You are a mensch, Adam.
The 4th photo looks just like my little Henry looked a couple of days ago after he got into the garbage and ate a ridiculous amount of stuff. He looked like a water balloon that had been filled to nearly bursting point.
Since Henry can’t talk, he can’t even berate me for the meager rations he has been fed for the two days since then, and his tummy is slowly returning to normal size.
arrieve
@Mary G: I’ll second that — Puppies!
J R in WV
Swell puppies, I have some puppy pics I can share later on, maybe next week.
rumor has it that Alain is trout fishing in the eastern mountains of WV … I sent him a list of golden trout stocking sites, he seems partial to those very pretty and unusual fish. There are native trout streams with reproducing brook and ummm, some other type of trout, very small upland creeks.
J R in WV
@J R in WV:
The other trout variety is brown trout, can’t believe I forgot that!!!