Stoutpup

I recently watched the movie “If Lucy Fell” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Eric Schaeffer. It was on cable and I couldn’t resist — remembering how I had gone to the theater by myself to see this film, something I used to do a lot in Tucson. I have always loved the movies and I guess have always had a fondness for all things Lucy.

It’s once again Fall in Tacoma and I stole this picture of curious Lucy looking out the living room window at something she heard outside. This picture is so full of childlike wonder — I love it. We were in the middle of a bulldog clothing change for a photoshoot I was working on and as I turned to get the next Lucy outfit, I found her gazing at the street naked as can be. So funny to me. She’s like a kid.

I love my friends’ stories about the funny things their children do. Almost always I catch myself relating a similar story about what my dog did that was so childlike and as hilarious to me. Then I think. “Oh, I hope my friend did not think I was comparing her kid to a DOG.” Of course I am not comparing a child to a dog, but the things they do are so similar sometimes it makes me laugh. It’s only because (I think) on some level I can relate to the (at times)frustrating humor of it all. Animals are so human-like!

Anyways, we were doing a photoshoot because I have made all these reversible dog bandanas for my Aunt Louise’s craft fair to benefit my cousin Gabe’s Scholarship Fund. I wanted to show my merchandise in use. I tried to take pictures of the dogs outside because the lighting was better, but Lucy was crazy and would not sit still. In the above picture she is acting like a maniac, but I like the picture because you can see her little baby teeth, and she sort resembles a rabbit with those front teeth– not a Velveteen Rabbit (see previous post). But alas, she is the singing Warner Bros. frog because when I brought the photoshoot inside, she would not do a thing, just sort of started melting into the crack of the couch.