The Goldens

Mixing the canine color palette. Teka and Blitz with their lab friends.
Refreshing. Nellie.
Blitz and Teka romp in the snow.
Phanny, Bliss, and Tasha decided Mary makes for good playground equipment.
Being a forester’s dog is exhausting.
Blitz is happiest while doing her work.
Blitz and Teka came too. There were lots of dogs in attendance.
Nellie loves her sticks.
Hawk
Tasha enjoys a romp in the Nevada desert. lots of room to run.
Blitz
“Hey lazy dog, you’re sleeping on my sketchbook!”
The consumate stick dog.
October 23, 2013
Sailor and Kinta are ready for an adventure.
Bliss, Sailor and Tasha the three amigos.
Hawk and Blitz were best buddies.
Bliss
Phanny decide the desert was good place to run and frolic!
Ponderosa burn fire salvage. Santee.
Mary and Blitz take a stroll on the beach.
Blitz
Sailor and Kinta find this whole adventure thing quite exhausting.
Bliss is helping with the log quality control. She offer to take care of the tiny log and left me the big ones.
Blitz chills after an exhausting day of events. “Don’t get up Blitz, but I need to get into the refrigerator!”
Phanny joined us for some pre-season scouting.
Teka was born to hunt birds.
Thanks Kinta! I’m glad you needed to go potty this morning.
Blitz and Teka on the beach near Brookings.
Nellie and Blitz
And hunting buddies
The pack!
Blitz goes back to what she does best.
Teka can’t wait for her turn. She stakes out my truck.
It must have hurt to be that cute. Makes me kind of misty.
August 6, 2006 — April 25, 2014
The golden streak! Teka.
This looks like trouble, Bliss and Phanny!
This is where we escape. Mary give Blitz a snuggle.
On the Upper Sacramento River.
Blitz spots for me. She has seen this all before.
The race is on! Teka.
Once she was back home again she made the best of it.
Feel the love.
Bliss and Tasha in the Sierra.
Tim, Teka and Blitz.
“A Forester and his Dog”‘ pen and ink.
A happy girl. Blaze and Hunter.
Blitz joyfully returns with a bird.
Bliss at Dog Creek.
The big stick contest. Blitz and Nellie
Blitz at four months.
Bliss, Tasha and Sailor in Montana.
Blitz and Teka out in the woods.
It seems Blitz is not impressed. 😦
Nellie in her youth at Iron Canyon Reservoir.
Nellie and Blitz
Nellie
This was the site of the Little Giant Mill log deck.
Blitz finds a fish for me. “Hey Blitz that one is dead.”
Big pine in the Coast Range.
Hunter and Blaze in a sea of Ponderosa pine tree. Blitz got the day off so instead a photo of Hunter, Blitz’s dad, and Aunty Blaze.
Blitz loves the snow.
On the Trinity River.
Kinta is the truck dog today, since Blitz had a doctors appointment.
Blitz, the red dog!
My sons and Nellie.
The girls are loaded up and ready to roll.
I had a companion on this day. Tessa, our friends dog got to be a forester’s dog for a day.
Don’t be deceived by this angelic face. This puppy is wild little rascal.
When we got home she had to go back into the hospital.
Blitz’s last hunt with us.
“Squirrel, gotta go!”
May 5, 2001
A soft seat after a busy day feels so good. Blitz
Tasha and Bliss at Sly Park Reservoir.
From left to right, Tasha, Phanny, Bliss and Sailor.
Water Break, Nellie and Blitz.
Blitz gets a “little” love. 🙂
Phanny and Bliss playing in the Yellowstone River.
Bliss loves to play and Tasha isn’t immune.
Redtail’s Nitro Nellie just being “Boopie”
Blitz says, her critical period is pheasant season.
After a security sweep by Blitz it was determined that this log deck was clear of ferocious jack rabbits.
Me: “Well, what do you think?” Bliss: “Sniff, sniff.”
Me and Blitz.
Bliss: “Rarr Rarr Ruff!!!” Me: “Everyone’s a critic. Maybe next time I’ll let the sleeping dog lie.”
At a stop near Rye Patch Reservoir to stretch their legs, Sailor wanted to explore every smell.
Doug and Teka.
“Kinta you are not the photo editor!”
Blaze impatiently waits for her driver.
My oldest son, Chris with his girl Nellie. This was her last pheasant season.
She was still that little puppy at heart.
Blitz giving her best regal pose.
Bliss says to beware of predators hiding along the riverbank!
Teka Playing in the snow
Looking down the hill at our pond with Sailer, Tasha and Bliss.
Teka and her person, Doug.
Blitz know that she better be rolling in the snow while she still can.
She loves playing with her buddy Sailor.
“Don’t you make that face at me Blitz…you are a bad dog!”
The forester’s dog and the loggers dog.
In the twilight.
Phanny on the run! As usual.
It just doesn’t seem right to not end this post with a picture of Blitz. She’s still here in spirit.
Mary and Tom dog visiting Nellie at the Vet’s office. She was one sick pup, but it sure perked her up seeing us.
“Is that a grouse I see?”
Bliss, feeling much better after a swim.
Nellie and Blitz.
Blitz has a lively pheasant.
Flying high.
Blitz sits on the same stump in 2014.
Bliss at the Gallatin River, Montana. The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River.
Teka and Blitz train for the hunt tests.
Blitz says, “Can’t trust em’, they remind me of cats!”
That’s not a flower either, but it is wild.
Blitz grazes during a break.
It’s a race.
Blitz decided she would just wait in the truck during. She figured the bear would be full after a yummy forester meal.
Bliss
Hunter motto was “It’s good to be Hunter!”
Sailor thinks Phanny should shake somewhere else.
Blitz likes a good ride along, but don’t take her seat!
Blitz
There’s gold under that rainbow.
Blitz on a water retrieve.
Teka and Blitz were busy plotting against His Excellency!
You had to know this would happen.
With Burney Mountain in the background, Nellie strikes a lovely pose. She is one of my favorite models. Nellie is very co-operative and will work for dog biscuits.
We didn’t know it yet, but Bliss was one sick puppy. She had chewed a toxic mushroom in the morning. In the afternoon we knew something was wrong and headed for the vet.
Hunter and the big pine.
Teka stares forlornly at a beautiful pair of Canada geese.
Tasha and Bliss stop for a drink.
Blitz loves a shaded fuelbreak. So many sticks, so little time.
Blitz steal a stick from her mom.
Meet Skidder, and no he’s not my dog. He belongs to the logging crew I was visiting. Yes, I gave him back.
Blitz and Nellie taking a break for a swim at Lake Prairie
Squirrels tremble in her presence!
Divya’s portrait of Blaze and Hunter.
She took to the water right away.
The morning ritual, ” Hey I need some attention here!” Nellie.
Teka with the wind in her face.
February 19, 2006
Hunter in 2002
Blitz with her bag.
Pine seedlings in a burn restoration. That’s me with Blaze and Hunter in 2006.
Catching a nap.
Whoop whoop
Nellie
Sunset from our campsite in Idaho on the second night.
Time for the boys to watch from afar.
Blitz loved the woods.
Blitz the happy dog.
“Can I get out of the truck please.”
Phanny swimming!
Nellie In Watercolor
Hawk during his last pheasant season.
On the road home and Blitz is dreaming of ducks.
The Doctor Bob released her to come back to camp for our last night.
Looking good.
Just hanging out.
Nellie.
Yes I know it’s about hauling logs Blitz, but now you’re just showing off.
Blitz would prefer to ride up front.
Well this isn’t going well.
Bliss one year old.

32 thoughts on “The Goldens”

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  3. Oh my gosh!! Every one of these was wonderful! That first picture of Nellie is still a favorite that I’ve seen here. There are five dogs in one picture. Did you really have five dogs at one time? We had four, but only have one left. I pine for more dogs. Blaze and Hunter up close are adorable, I love Blaze on the truck cab, and your artwork is so good. Really enjoyable, Tim.

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  5. I just come from Yvonne who posted a poem for you. Pictures of your dogs are wonderful. I lost two of my dogs recently, Lady was 7 and Fanny who died in January 14. I still have a little fellow of 12 years’ old. I am glad I found your blog

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  7. Your dogs are lovely. They have lovely color!!! In Sweden our Goldens are usually much lighter. It is a nice combination: dogs an watercolors 🙂 Like that!

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    • Thanks you so much. We definitely favor the red golden retrievers. Our dogs are hunting dogs and run in events. Most goldens that come from hunting lines here favor the darker colors, but there are many that are lighter too. We have raised them for many years and enjoy thier company enormously. I can see by your blog that you too enjoy your dogs very very much. 🙂

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  9. Lovely rich red coloured goldies, in UK they are more cream coloured, though we do get some real ‘goldies’ more the working strain as yours appear to be. lovely pictures with each one telling a story.

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  12. Hey Tim,
    LOVE the beautiful pictures 🙂 We would love to know if you and Mary are still breeding… Our 10 year old Red Tail golden, Kona is precious to us and looking to add another someday to our family. Thank you for your time.

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  14. We bought a lighter Golden puppy a few years ago when our daughter first came to live with us out of foster care, but my husband and son are the ones who became obsessed with her. She is such an amazing dog. Yours are gorgeous.

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