Phriday Photos

First, a slightly revised Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue tour schedule. Correction and addition in bold.

Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue Tour (all times local)

Tuesday, July 15, 6:30 PM – The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale AZ (streamed live).
Wednesday, July 16, 6:00 PM- Watermark Books and Café, Wichita KS
Friday, July 18, 2:00 PM – The Villages Barnes and Noble, The Villages, FL
Saturday, July 19, 2:00 PM – FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA
Monday, July 21, 6:30 PM – Murder By The Book, Houston, TX
Tuesday, July 22, 6:00 PM – Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Wednesday, July 23, 6:00 PM – Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
Thursday, July 23, 6:30 PM – RJ Julia. Madison, CT
Monday, August 4, 4:PM – Falmouth Public Library, Falmouth MA (Eight Cousins Books)
Thursday, August 7, 6:00 PM – Book Love, Plymouth, MA

And now over to Bob Edwards who sends these photos, taken by Vladimir Jochelson, an early ethnographer who took these 2 photos of Laikas living among the Yukaghir people in Siberia. (For Phriday Photos send anything about anything to peter.b.abrahams@gmail.com.)

Early members of the Nation Within the Nation

6 Comments on “Phriday Photos”

  3. One thing I notice about early photographs is the amount that have dogs in them. Not just children posing with their dogs but adults with their dogs and even entire families. Some just the dogs by themselves. While it is the photographer that chose his subjects in these photos, for the studio portraits the people paying to have their photos taken chose to include their dog.

    While I am not familiar with the Laika breed or the native people of Siberia it does not surprise me they have dogs or that a photographer wishing to document these people would include their dogs.

    We have a natural affinity for each other.

    It would not surprise me if, over the millennia not only did the dog’s brains change but ours too, because of our long association with them. We modified each other to create an even tighter bond. No way to prove it but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

  4. Very insightful, guys! Dog – human bonds are some of my very favorite! I love all the dogs we encounter on our walks, and know all their names and favorite places to be scratched. Their humans, not so much! (I guess it would be inappropriate to know where the humans liked to be scratched!)

    1. A five month old puppy alerted his owner and saved a village in India from a mudslide that wiped out homes. 22 families saved, no one hurt.

      A papillon on Switzerland stood watch over a hole his master fell into on a glacier, helping the rescue team find him and bring them both to safety.

      A dog at a rescue adoption went over to a complete stranger and wouldn’t leave him. His wife realized her husband was having a seizure and the dog knew. Not trained, just knew. Later the dog was adopted by a family whose son has seizures.

      I subscribe to We Rate Dogs on YouTube. The dogs are always good this week.

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