“Why complain if you are looking to lift your spirit’s longing, and have followed a rat into the desert.” – Hafiz

“Do not speak poorly of your life and your work. They might be listening.” – Jon Katz

I’ve been capturing Gus’s hangouts, and I see he is very fond of our back porch. The slate tiles are cool – he doesn’t love the strong sun – and when he is tired or after racing around with Fate, which is happening more frequently, he goes up to the back porch. He is only nine weeks old and can’t keep up with a nuclear-charged border collie like Fate.

I love photographing his hangouts, this is a small dog thing also, I think, the border collies just sit by the door or the pasture fence, waiting to go to work.