GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGGIES...

The above picture-frame hangs above the kitchen door in my hall and shows two photos each of the three dogs we had (at different times) from January 1973 to November 1998.  The first was PRINCE, the second was TARA, and the third was ZARA.  The interesting thing about these photos is that they were all taken within a few feet from each other in the same area of the same back garden.

The two pics of Prince were snapped on the path seen behind Tara in her second photo, and the first pic of Zara was taken on the path to the left in the second pic of Tara.  That second photo was taken in front of the doorway in the first pic of Tara, and the second pic of Zara was taken in the kennel located on the right of the first pic of Tara.  (Still with me?)  "So what?" you may be wondering.  

Well, we moved to another house in a different neighbourhood in 1983, where Tara lived for the last three years of her life.  A month after she died, I bought Zara (who was born a month before Tara passed, so their lives overlapped), and a year after that, we moved back to our previous house.  That means there was a gap of just over four years between Tara and Zara living in the same house, so photos of them (and Prince) on the same few feet of pathway of the same garden is somehow very satisfying and significant to me.

The dogs never met one another, but they all knew and played in the same garden, and 'posed' for photos, each being captured for posterity within the same few feet of space.  How fitting to my way of thinking, but just don't ask me to explain quite why.

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