James Herriot

Veternarian from the "All Creatures Great and Small" series of books. Pictured here with Tristan and Sigfreid Farnham. Herriot's actual name was Alf Wight, and the township Darrowby was actually Thirsk, England.

Owls

From Kanapaha Gardens
   Gainesville, FL

Dragonflies are actually very friendly if you didn't know.  They seem to have a natural curiosity and affinity for people.  Save and view the above pic at actual size for some nice detail.

BUD... WEIS... ERRRRRR...

(I took this pic in Gainesville, just like the commercial, what a gag!) 

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
- Will Rogers

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made"
- M. Facklam

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love
and always have to mix love and hate."
- Sigmund Freud

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
- Anonymous

"Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent,
are often continued in the next yard."
- Dave Barry

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
- Franklin P. Jones

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
- Unknown

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
- Penny Ward Moser

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can
hold his own in the conversation."
- Fran Lebowitz

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
- Rita Rudner

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
- Joe Weinstein

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
- Ann Landers

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
- Ben Williams

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
- Josh Billings

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
- Andrew A. Rooney

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
-Anne Tyler

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and
very, very few persons."
- James Thurber

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
- Robert A. Heinlein