Texture Tuesday ... free & easy

Since it's the last edition of Texture Tuesday until 2013, I could not resist posting

a little send-off photo of someone who has no trouble

being 'free & easy.' 

You remember her, don't you, that furry one on the left ...

the one who doesn't like the camera in her face?

Pssst.  She can't see me very well when she's upside down.

Those curled paws are just the sweetest darn thing and lying head-to-head like that

with her beloved hedgie.

Two black olive noses pointing ceiling-ward ... 

just a typical moment in an ordinary day.

Dang, do I love this dawg.

This kind of devotion is no stranger to history ...

I am in delightful company.

Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon

~ by Anders Zorn, 1897

Ethel Smyth and Marco, 1891

~ from her book, 'Impressions that Remained: Memoirs'

by Ethel Smyth

I look at these pictures and if I may be so bold to say,

I know what these women were feeling.

Portrait of Elizabeth Jackson, Mrs. Morton Pleydell

~ by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1760

Miss Constance Collier

~ courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Library

Miss Carter Mullikin, Holton-Arms School, & her Red Cross dog

~ Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, ca. 1917

Portraits of a profound connection to another sentient being, not easy to describe with words.

So I won't try.

'Blessing'

~ oil painting, by Jeanie Tomanek

But I know what it feels like ...

I know it in my bones.

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Textures used in the top photo were Kim Klassen's shades of November

and autumn burst.  Linking up with Texture Tuesday over HERE.