Lenore is a profoundly loving creature, as I told Gretchen Pinkel, her breeder, at dinner the other night. She lightens up life around her. She kept love alive for me when I needed it, she befriended Frieda, brings to the farm a focus of affection and warmth that is powerful and contagious. She is my photographer’s assistant. When I go out to take pictures, she sits and watches me, never wandering off or taking her eyes of me. I think she knows what lenses I use.
  Whenever I look up, she is there, taking me in.