I captured poor Donna with this "deer in the headlights" look. Admittedly, this was taken prior to a smoke and coffee. I'm an early riser and I had be (...)

Jeff, on the back porch, looking out over the Blanche River and taking deep breaths of the crisp, clean morning air.

For the first time ever, we never ate out for ny of our meals for the entire weekend except for brekfast on the last day. The reason is that Jeff is a (...)

We went for a walkies anyway to find the hidden path by the river's edge. Flare ran on ahead and stopped suddenly. She turned into the wind filtering (...)

Here is a familiar sight - a dog racing ahead of Don's tractor. All of Don's dogs did this as a matter of course, whether it be the tractor or being r (...)

A serene view of the Blanche river that runs behind Don's place. Normally, a path exists along the river bank but it had vanished under deep snow.

Flare still going strong as I'm furiously working the shutter release to capture the motion. Her whole body seems to shout - I AM A WINTER DOG!

Inevitably, her luck ran out and she face planted into the snow. She growled, shook her head free of snow and hurtled past me up the hill. The rest of (...)

I'll have youse know that this is a carefully composed and cropped shot. I wanted to make sure that the giant icicle was dripping into Donna's wine gl (...)

The chili was preceded by these giant tiger shrimps in garlic butter. They were to die for, once they had cooled enough to eat. So ended a second day (...)

A rare greeting from the aloof and elusive Warrior Princess. What a good morning it was.

When the light hits you eye from a clear Mayo sky - that's a more rays. Oh dear, I now hate myself for having written that. Please forgive me.

The Sun finally returned on the third day, which happened to be Sunday - how appropriate.

I liked the way the light shone on the snowbank leading up to the old doghouse.

Eventually, the light reached the house. It was a good place to be.

I went for an early walkabout while the others snoozed and recuperated. It was still chilly. though.

The Sun and La Blanche embracing each other.

With Jeff up, things got cooking. We were going to have an omelette with all the fixin's.

A rare treat from Rosemary - smoked lamb chops, newly introduced this year and a raving success.

For anyone still hungry after breakfast there was plenty of leftover chili.