The High Road

Barley, a dog, stands high atop a gravel pile and seems astonished by all it allows her to see.

In keeping with her spirit of taking the world exactly as it comes to her, Barley does not seem to realize that climbing on top of things lets you see much further into the distance. In this case, she needed to be actively cajoled into climbing this gravel pile. Once she was up there, however, her whole body sort of stilled as she panned her head left and right, as if astonished that a whole new topography had sprung up from behind her horizon line.