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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I have been chuckling at the stories of Droolers trying to get nice shots of their bassets for the card exchange. I haven’t even tried, but might get brave and participate one of these years. Like yours, my gang is not high in the cooperation department and so I have no really good photos of any of them. However, I have to share about my son’s Australian Shepherd and photography. To make this basset related, Sam is my Flo’s bestest friend.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">While at my son’s home recently, I noticed that he had received an 18x20 official Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity photo from last year. The print contained headshots of each individual fraternity member that year dressed up in suits and ties – all these handsome young men looking very serious and proper, except for the guy who also had a pink bandana on his head. In the middle is a photo of Sam with the caption “Sam – Mascot” underneath. And the picture of him is PERFECT – sitting perfectly – head held in a regal position looking straight at the camera. I marveled at it because he seemed to exude the same seriousness as the young men whose mascot he was, and because I thought how my dogs would never sit that way for a great picture. So now Sam is part of a great picture that hangs on the wall of the fraternity house to document the members from the 2010-2011 school year for all posterity . . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Alicia Pool</p></div></body></html>