Take Me From The River

Barley, a dog, stands on a concrete loading ramp that descends into a green river.

Barley remains deeply ambivalent about bodies of water. She doesn’t have any regular access to them these days, and as such seems to associate water with neither play nor with an opportunity to cool down on a hot day. Even getting her to stand still for this photo took some cajoling, because her main interest was to turn around and get back to investigating the tall, scrubby grasses growing along the river’s sandy banks.