Pic(k) of the Week: Farewell, Charlie

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We rescued Charlie in 2019. Even then, he had some gray in his muzzle. When we guessed he was about five years old, he didn't protest.

After many adventures and many years of unconditional companionship, Charlie has died. I will sorely miss my hiking/photography comrade.

10 July 2026.

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Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford (composer: Benny Golson)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Into the green

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After the rain,

The urban duo

Goes into the green.

Trolley Trail in Gilliam Park: City of Atlanta (Kirkwood), Georgia, USA. 28 June 2025.

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Dexter Gordon: Cheesecake
Album: Go (Blue Note, 1962)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Wary weather watcher

A storm approaches;

Warily, the dog watches.

Beach life.

St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA. 9 September 2022.

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Pic(k) of the Week: A woman, her dog, and her beer.

Priorities! A woman, her dog, and her beer.

Held annually on the last full weekend of April, the Inman Park Festival signals the onset of Atlanta, Georgia's festival season. Inman Park is both a neighborhood and an actual park. Photo taken on 23 April 2022.

Inman Park holds the distinction of being Atlanta’s first planned suburb [1880s] as well as one of the city’s first in-town neighborhoods to undergo extensive restoration. The neighborhood typifies garden suburbs of the late nineteenth century.

— New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Pic(k) of the Week: Hairy Potter

Canine cosplay!

It's Hairy Potter, a contestant at the 6th annual Dogtoberfest, in Atlanta, Georgia's East Atlanta Village neighborhood.

Begun in 2013 by a local business (dog biscuits!) owner, Dogtoberfest features a dog (and human) Halloween costume contest and parade.

21 October 2018.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Sartorial Charlie

YFGF's Pic(k) of the Week has gone to the dogs.



Cancer survivor Charlie, a French bulldog resplendent in his snappy Christmas bow-tie, was expectantly watching the Reindog Parade and Contest, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, in Atlanta, Georgia, on 2 December 2017.

The competition, in its tenth annual observance, showcases canines in their winter fashions (and their companion humans). Categories include Best Puppy, Best Adult, Best Botanical, Best Dog-Owner Dress-alike, Best Dog Pack, and, ultimately, Best in Show.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Beagle & the carrot

"That's one big carrot," thought Ethel Mae, before prepping for Thanksgiving dinner, 22 November 2017.

(She posed with the carrot for the scale of the latter ... not vice versa!)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Roots

Ent-like, the twisted roots of a tree —limned in late afternoon sun and shadow— guard the steps at the entrance to Walker Park, in Atlanta (Edgewood), Georgia, on 28 August 2017.

A Chihuahua photo-bombed the photo. Had she espied something sinister within the roots?

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Pic(k) of the Week: Tie-dyes

Colorful canine and human: two Dogtoberfest contestants seen on 16 October 2016, in the East Atlanta Village neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Pic(k) of the Week: The Road goes ever on and on!

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say.

With apologies to Bilbo Baggins (or not), Ethel Mae the beagle checks out life on the road.

McLean, Virginia.
25 August 2012.

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• Or, would that be apologies to Robert Earl Keen?
• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, often posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always, with a good fermentable as subject. Commercial use requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.