I sketched the sleepy collie again from life. She is 17 now and still happily trotting up and down mountains when not napping. An amazing pup ✨
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Cees Bol (dewollewei on Flickr).
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These were all taken on the weekend of my birthday (Jan 6th!), back in 2012. Barney & I took a trip to a very, very old farmhouse, in the depths of Snowdonia National Park. The house belonged to a friend of a friend of my dad - they didn't live in there themselves, so to keep it from going totally to ruin, they'd let people they knew stay there, from time to time.
No internet connection, no phone signal, no tv. No shops or neighbours nearby. There were mice living in the pantry & a hole in my bedroom ceiling. The bed was so rickety & ancient, I wondered if it'd give way overnight! The walls were thick but the window panes were thin & there was no proper heating, so entire house was freezing - save for the living room, which had a fireplace.
This was the view from the front garden (before the fog rolled in).
The weather was - as is usual for January (& pretty much every other month!) - in North Wales... damp - when it wasn't actually raining, it was misty & mirky. We wandered into the mountains & explored. I didn't get many photos because the weather closed in but gosh, what an incredible place. Like stepping back in time.
Absolutely magical trip... one I still look back on fondly, so many years later.
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Sheepdog and cow, Beaford, Devon, England, 1971 - by Roger Deakins (1949), English
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[ID: An old english sheepdog standing in a sunlit snowy forest.] via
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Windy weather by Cees
Via Flickr:
Old English sheepdogs Summer and Soes
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"dog sheep"
Their diet was identified as marine-based from archeofaunal remains and I just think they're really neat. Salish wooly dogs were kept by the Tseshaht people of Vancouver, BC until the introduction of other dog breeds by European traders and colonizers. The interbreeding lessened the proper supply of wool. The wool from these dogs were used for regalia and ceremonial blankets.
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