Of all the thousands of photos I have taken over the last three weeks while I have been on holidays, this photo of Blossom the Staffordshire Terrier is one of my favourites. I think it shows Blossy as she is -- built like the proverbial brick sh..house, alert, curious, intelligent and, for once, very much in focus. It also shows her with her favourite passtime -- sticks. She loves to chase sticks thrown for her but she won't give the stick back so you can throw it again. I started having two sticks to throw and she quickly realised she couldn't pick both up at the same time but she still didn't want to drop either. She started dropping the first stick as I was throwing the second one but, on her way to retrieve the second stick, she would snatch up the first one and take it with her. Needless to say the game would finish sooner rather than later because she would leave the sticks out in the paddock and I certainly wasn't going to walk to fetch them!! :-)