Dog Days: Happy Monday!

These guys are still taking us on their daily hike each night.  We are so blessed to live where we do so we can just walk out our door and go for a long hike.

Our autumn hikes are consisting of a lot of boulder hopping.  Glacier gets nervous if he doesn't have a running start so he will just sit at the bottom of a boulder and whine. Azul is still the boulder hopping champion.  He's like Ryan and if it was up to him he would only hop from rock to rock and not touch the ground.

Happy Monday!

See more of these two here.

xo

Erin

Camping With The Dogs

We went camping with both Azul and Glacier for the first time.  We've been camping with Azul before and he's a trooper and we have no issues with him.  I was a little worried about Glacier camping hoping he wouldn't bark at every noise he heard during the night.  We brought our huge tent that we haven't used in a couple years hoping it would fit all of us.  We have just been using the two person tent when we go without the dogs.  We had more than enough room in the large tent.  We could have fit 4 more people!

This picture of Glacier pretty much sums up his personality.  His tail is a blur from wagging it so fast.

You may be wondering...
What do I eat while camping because my diet is so restricted?
Well...

I ate mostly protein.  For dinner we had brats and for breakfast we had hash browns and sausage.

Azul was on vacation... he didn't even stand up to eat his dinner.  He has such a hard life, it's good we finally brought him on vacation.

 
They may have got some of our food for breakfast... but we made them work for it.

Glacier doesn't understand the concept of a screen.  He was trying to drop his pine comb in the tent for us to throw for him.

Glacier did better than I expected at night with no major barking.  The camping trip was a success!

xo

Erin

Dog Days: Summer Walks

Summer walks with these boys means more visits to our local pond for them to go swimming.  Well.... for Glacier to swim out to the sticks we throw him and Azul just wading out waiting for us to throw rocks at him.  Yes, we know, he is a little strange.  We think Glacier may have broke a tooth by actually catching the rocks we throw so we throw them extra high or when they aren't looking so he doesn't catch them.

More rock catching pictures here and here.

xo

Erin

Dog Days: Shaking Off

I'm pretty sure Azul is peeing in these pictures and looks more annoyed in each one.

xo

Erin

Dog Days: Evening Hikes

We are not morning people so we don't walk out dogs each morning.  Instead we walk them when we get home from work each evening before Azul eats of course.  Those walks are sometimes the best part of the day where we can talk not worrying about the other things we "should" be doing and have fun especially with our two dogs.  We are so fortunate to live next to hiking trails just steps away from our house with plenty of boulders to climb and logs to cross.
Azul actually loves to climb all those boulders.  I think he likes the vantage point.

You can follow along on our evening walks on Instagram @VisiblyMoved or on Vine @ErinHarings.

When do you bring your dogs for a walk?  If you Intagram your walks, I'd love to follow you!

See what happened on another walk here.

xo
Erin

Prophetic Photography

Run to Me

Have you ever heard of prophetic photography?  Neither had I up until a couple weeks ago when I  asked God to show me how I can use my talents for Him.  I then thought I came up with this brilliant idea of prophetic photography.  I didn't know if it was a real thing already being done.  A short Google search later I found that it really was a thing and found this explanation and examples at Red Door Sentinel.

I've seen Akiane Kramarik's paintings and their prophetic meanings.  Looking through a book of her paintings have brought me to tears because they carry such powerful messages and dreamlike wonder of things I couldn't have even imagined.

Kelly explained that revealing things hidden through divine inspiration  declare the purpose of God.  Hidden Things are always in plain site and the scripture it declares can be so revealing in a picture.  

For example in the picture above, I was out with my dogs and husband taking our typical daily hike.  On this night, we were a little nervous letting our husky go without a leash.  If you know huskies they are notorious for being runners, stubborn, and not listening to anything you say.  Azul, our husky, was at extra risk of running away on this hike because we had just fed him dinner.  He didn't need to get home anytime soon to eat.  At this point, Azul was running far ahead and my husband and I had stopped to play catch with our other dog, Glacier, and Azul kept going further ahead.  I really wanted Azul to be with me.  Not out of fear he was running away, but I wanted to play with him, pet him, and I really wanted him to want to come to me. So I called his name, and he came running to me.  I snapped the picture above.

Later I was posting the picture to Instagram and I came the caption part.  The only thing repeating over and over in my head to put was Run to Me.

I felt like I was just given a download of information on why God gave me that caption.

I can be unruly, disobedient and stubborn.  God has the power to keep me close to him or make me do the things he wants me to do, just as I could have done the same with putting Azul on a leash.  But instead he wants us to want to run to Him just what I wanted from Azul.  By him running to me it made my heart happy that he returned affection to me.

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you.  If you seek me with all your heart and soul.

Jeremiah 29:13

Then I said, "LORD, you give me strength and protect me.  You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.

Jeremiah 16:19

xo

Erin

See more prophetic photography here.

Dog Days: Snow Fluries

I have spring fever...

and I think Glacier does too.
He ended up swimming in the snow.

xo

Erin

Dog Days

Someone recently compared Azul's grumpy look in pictures to this cat.  Azul is defiantly not amused by me taking pictures of him.

Glacier, on the other hand, loves the attention. 

xo 

Erin

We've Officially Dug Out: Storm Nemo

To get through the hardest journey

We need only take one step at a time

But we must keep on stepping

I just went back to work today after storm Nemo and we are supposed to get a few more inches tonight.  Is it too much to hope for another snow day tomorrow?!

xo

Erin

Storm Nemo

Storm Nemo is coming to an end and has left us with three feet of snow.

Glacier had to forge a trail for us.  Both Glacier and Azul are having to hop through all this snow.  They aren't too amused by it.

See that fence up there?  

Happy shoveling to everyone in New England today!

xo

Erin

Dog Days: Black and White

Having  black and white dogs make for some

 good black and white pictures of them.

Missed these guys while we were in AZ. 

 I don't think they had such a good time when we were gone.

xo 

Erin

Dog Days

Glacier and Azul

Waiting for us to throw rocks for them.

Erin

xo

Life Recently

Life recently, via my iPhone.

We made it through Hurricane Sandy with no damage and no loss of electricity.  If you know where we live that is nothing short of a miracle.  A few huge trees went down in our yard which we will be cutting up for firewood.

Unfortunately so many are still living without electricity and many have lost all they own.  If you are looking for ways to help go here or here.

-Erin

xo