
Photo by Phyllis Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that there are both pluses and minuses in sharing life with a “photo-artist,” as Phyllis is so identified.
While the keeper gets to enjoy amazing wildflower photos, he is also vulnerable to surprise documentation of some of his unplanned moments.
So, as he prepared a snack by dropping the cracker tin on the floor, Phyllis was there to record it, and then to call the cracker pick-up part of the keeper’s “exercise program,” and to further compound her audacity by scooping him with a Facebook post.
Two can play at this, and the keeper warns Phyllis that he will no longer be passing up opportunities to photograph her as she plucks her eyebrows and……

Photo by Bill Stokes