Stop to smell…Everything

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[Post written on 4/25/08, photos added 4/28/08]

I am so happy spring is finally here! In Chicago we have been blessed with perfect weather for the last week or two. Its been mostly sunny (only a few partial days of cloudy or rain) and right around 70-78 degrees every day! I feel like we are in Hawaii or something, where the temperature is always 70-85 degrees and sunny almost every day, with rain showers many days but only last an hour or two. I feel truly blessed to leave here in Chicago and have such great weather lately! My little puppy, Bailey, she’s about 10 months now (born 6-11-07, wow look another 11), a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is loving life too. She gets so many walks and gets to play in the yard all day. One of the first nice days of Spring, last week, we went out for a long walk, not only in distance but in time. At first I found myself always having to tug a little on her leash, because she was taking forever on this walk. She not only took “time to smell the roses,” she wanted to smell everything! Grass, trees, every flower, just about anything she came across. Now we have walked the same roads and same paths many times before, and she knows the smells, she knows the path we walk. Once she got loose from her leash and my fiance, Jon, just followed the path Bailey walks everyday and sure enough that’s where she ran to. But this day was different, on one of the first days that felt like Spring she stopped so many times. Realizing we could be on this walk all day and I had piles of work waiting for me, I just kept tugging and saying, “C’mon Bailey.” I didn’t understand her until we past a small garden filled with Hyacinth, a sweet smelling Spring flower. This was her first Spring! She had never smelled the flowers, the fresh green grass, or how the air smells after a Spring rain. So I slowed down and stopped to take it all in.

I am such a visual person that sometimes I may forget to stop and smell it all. Its hard to capture smells in words, or pictures, and there isn’t a way to truly capture a smell. But we all remember what a Spring day smells like. A dog knows the world through smells, they take it all in, the good and the bad.

…I started writing this post sitting on my covered porch with Bailey beside me. Since then the sun has set, Jon has come home-and now left again to get dinner, and it has started raining, pouring and storming really. But its the Spring kind of storm warm and a cool breeze, windy, comes in quickly with force and then fades away cooler than it started. Bailey is asleep on a chair by the only open windows in the house, the ones that wouldn’t soak the house. She is tired after our long walk today with Jon and I. We had a few minutes of rain followed by clearing of the clouds and the last bit of sunshine for the day, Jon and I took advantage of the break in the storm by taking the puppy on one of the longest walks yet. We also stopped off in the tennis courts to play, here are a few photos from today, taken with my little point and shoot, Canon PowerShot SD1000

Bailey smells the Tulips

Bailey likes to run around on the tennis courts, even after a rain shower

I love it when she struts her stuff! And the water on the tennis courts gave me lots to play with.

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