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Artist, teacher. Loves laughter. Beloved of dogs. Helper of horses. Impressed by those who follow their bliss. More impressed by people who are kind. She/her

The cover of the book entitled ‘Champlain’s Dream’ by David Hackett Fischer, subtitled ‘The European Founding of North America’ with some text blurbs praising the author and the book as well. However the cover image is not an image of Samuel de Champlain, the book’s subject, but a reproduction of the 17th century painting ‘The Geographer’ by Johannes Vermeer. This shows a man (thought to be Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek, a contemporary geographer and a friend of the artist) wearing a blue robe and leaning over a table which holds a map with cartographic tools
Two women shown from the neck up, face the camera. Both are smiling. Both wear identical glasses
A little white dog sits on a pale green sofa with a multi-coloured blanket beside her, scrunched into the corner of the sofa. She’s pushed the blanket there. Evidence? Her hair is charged and standing up, leaving her looking like a late stage dandelion
A little white dog lies on a dark wood floor. She looks directly into the camera. Her hair is off her face in two ponytails. She wears a pink harness. Another dog’s face takes up the right side of the photo as he vies for the spotlight (rockstar that he is).
A Yorkshire terrier puppy in a perfect sit, looks up at the camera. You can’t see his eyes. His hair is tossled in a stylish mess, insouciant, like a little rockstar
Two small dogs, one a Yorkshire terrier (top right), the other a Maltese (lower centre). Both look up at the camera in anticipation. Both wearing identical grey winter onesies which have silver reflective stitching. They are waiting politely to go outside for a walk.
The bottom half is a flat expanse of fresh snow with foot and paw prints in the lower right corner. Evergreen trees of various sizes go across the horizon and make up the top half
A laughing woman sitting in a cafe, with a waffle and a sparkle in front of her, makes a birthday wish
Photo of a book by Catherine Munro entitled “Ponies at the Edge of the World “
A Yorkshire terrier is resting on the far corner of a very large blue grey cushion
A burnt orange page with “The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver a novel” in text. A silhouette of southwestern US landforms in the upper right background and a red Volkswagen Beetle in the mid ground, to the left, facing left as if to drive off the cover
A Yorkshire terrier stands in anticipation of play. He is looking up into the camera, with a stuffed toy in front of his feet
People bent over the road at an intersection, using chalk to colour in the Pulse memorial crosswalk
Three white highland ponies graze in a green forest-lined field in Tain Scotland
The human and canine guides in front of a historic building in Edinburgh. The human faces the camera and holds the leash. Sawyer the dog is sitting with his back to the camera and peering at the camera over his left shoulder
Close up of the kind face of a Golden Retriever named Sawyer, taken in Edinburgh
Two little dogs lying on the floor beside a window. The white dog, a female Maltese, is in front and appears larger than the Yorkshire terrier behind. She has two little pony tails and is resting her chin on the ground between her front paws.
Screenshot of a wordle game screen display with the solution (“frown”) in the first line
A Yorkshire terrier looks directly into the camera. His ears are up. He stands on a blue grey cushion with a well-loved lion stuffy between his front paws
Yellow Victorian house lifted into blue sky by a huge net full of multi-coloured balloons
A little white Maltese dog faces the camera with paws up on a dark pink chair. Her harness matches the chair and she has a pink elastic in her hair
Little white dog standing in a snow and ice covered driveway with snow laden trees in the background
Yorkshire terrier in a beige cable knit sweater snuggled up to a Maltese in a magenta cable knit sweater
Little white dog on a blanket
A Yorkshire terrier and Maltese dog sniffing a snowbank