I'm so glad everyone liked the picture. If you knew Katie and Sugar, you would probably feel that it captured them fairly well: Sugar is the aloof leader, Katie is the eager follower.

Adore, I loved the Kibbles & Bits commercials. Those dogs scurrying about were always so funny. I rarely watch tv--are they still on? They should be--who could get sick of them?

And Karen, yes, there's lots of ball-chasing space, though you do have to watch for snakes! Sugar actually took a bite over her eye once, but was incredibly brave about the whole thing and only yelped some when we were handling her to see what was wrong. She came through like it was nothing (of course we took her to the vet--forgot to add that the first time I posted the message!), but is MUCH more careful nowadays and limits herself to tormenting the squirrels and armadillos.

Logan, the picture was taken at my parents' property about an hour north of Austin. It does get rather dry-looking here in the summers, but I agree--central Texas does have a beauty of its own.

Thanks to everyone for the compliments!

[This message has been edited by Smilla (edited November 20, 2000).]