Saturday afternoon in Middle Earth

One of those magical Northwest days where it might get cold and rain at any given moment -- but until then, the sky is filled with orange-blue-pink-and-gray light and strange things happen to the afternoon shadows and colors. Here we're waiting for Thompson to run his legs out at Minto-Brown park.

Speaking of which, I just learned that Google Earth is now available for the Mac platform! Very cool. If you've never seen it, it's something that you need to have. Download it free from Google for your computer, then type in your address and watch it zoom to your house using real photos from outer space.

Here, we have Nigel running as fast as his legs will carry him back to the car. There's a certain exhiliration, I'm convinced, that comes from running at top speed through a park filled with dogs, hoping you're not knocked to the ground by an over-exuberant Retreiver, Boxer, Setter, or, dare-I-say, Whip-a-dor?