Near end of year

My end of the year blog posts generally include a review of the dogs we've fostered over the past year. I could still do that for this year, and I may, but it will take some time to review all the posts from the year and pull out pictures, and even then I'll probably miss some. For now, I'm just going to go over our past few days.

A nice picture of Bailey in the sun. 

Her head halter broke recently, I've ordered a new one.

We went to another concert, this one at the cathedral and featuring a brass band.

The two standing are soloists performing a piece written for the euphonium. 

I was quite taken by this sculpture in the cathedral. I couldn't find out anything about it but I really liked the lines of the standing figure.

This is a group of building in Vieux Lille.

These next few pictures are from a textile manufacturing museum in Rubaix, which is now a suburb of Lille. This area has been a center for wool processing and weaving since the middle ages. The museum contained looms that spanned the entire era. I can't say that I understood how any of them operated beyond the early ones, but I guess it was a natural progression of technology that performed the same process but faster and more elaborately. The early mechanized machines employed punch cards, essentially like early computer technology. It was fascinating. 

And of course, here's some more pictures of Bailey playing with other dogs.

This guy had short legs but he was fast.

Yesterday evening it was just Bailey and this beautiful German Shepherd Dog in the field. He couldn't really keep up but he gave it a good try and both dogs really enjoyed it.

This morning there was a mist hanging over the field, but no dogs.

We will try again later today.