Wrigley came into my life at a very special time.....with my feet nicely immersed in the freezing Roaring Fork river every day, I tap tap tapped my way to the deadline that was my book 'Just Try It On! during the summer of 07. Dog sitting was the perfect antitode to the antsy-ness that becomes a writer who gets the urge to go do ANYTHING except finish a book! But Wrigley kept me together. He sploshed in and out of the water, in the garden of Mike Faktor's Aspen apartment where he lived, and together he and I ploughed through the tricky chapter about Style Icons and Celebrity Style (all while wearing the same stinky river shorts) -- well, at least three days in a row... Oooh, the irony! Wrigs is in the huge bone filled doggy graveyard in the sky now, but dutifully, I must pay homage to one of the finest K9's around.....leashless and whistful, one could never stay in Wrigelys presence for too long without falling in with 'Wrigley Time' -- his own personal biorthym of eating, drinking and exercise. Even the cat and and he got along famously *whom I took with, for the dog sitting week, on a whim. In fact, one day, while I'd been out, the two of them were lying around langoriously in the shade of the afternoon. There was a guilty look on the cats face but Wrigs just looked smug. On closer examination, the cat food tin had been tidily rescued from the garbage and licked sparkling clean, abandoned on the ground. Just wish Id had a security video to capture the culprit and the accessory to crime!!
The weather was cool and comfortable and it was a perfect day for a photo shoot. Lucky me, my friend Rob brought his camera and fancy lenses to take Birthday shots of me and Jess as a memory and celebration of the day. Jess had a pampering bath the day before, and I used that blackening shampoo that tones any red in the hair to dark brown and whitened her sock, and she was very good at following my instruction not to mess her hair up too much in time for her close-ups! The shoot was really about getting portraits of the pony as a gift to me, although I snuck in on a couple of frrames (hence the not-much-attention-paid-to-my-styling) and yes, hence, I am riding in a skirt! But I think the results were terrific and some worthy of blowing up really big and framing forever. (I've always known Jess was an equine supermodel --and with her impatient temperament too!) And Owl Creek was a lovely place for a shoot -- right in the horses paddock is about as picturesque as any scene in all of Colorado. It was hard fighting off the other horses -- some of her friends and foes seemed to be jealous of the attention she was getting -- I tried to tell them it was a 'closed set' but they tried to get in on the action anyway! Here are some of the highlights.
