Peering Into The Middle Distance

Barley, a dog, squints as the stands facing the sun on a clear day.

My image of Barley is one of wide-eyed attention, but it occurs to me that this reflects two facts of my routine existence. First, I spend most of my time making eye contact with her indoors. While we are out on walks I see her mainly from above and from behind. Second, he time spent outdoors consists mostly of looking at the ground ahead of her, with her vision seeming to often act as little more than a targeting system for her nose. So occasions to consider Barley looking to the horizon, in the direction of something as bright as our stellar orb, simply doesn’t transpire very often.