This generative AI-assisted image is the lead to my article Finding Forever.

Prompt: cartoon-style drawing of hunters with a brittany dog pointing to a rabbit

Daisy always loved to romp in this giant field of marguerites. 

Mona was our dear and first Brittany. We rescued she and her brother Touché when they were not yet weened because, on their 10th day, mother darted onto the busy road and lost her life. Mona added family love and excitement for fifteen more years.

Touché: "Come on, Dad. Throw it again!"

Touché and his sister, Mona, love diving into the Pacific surf. Especially to fetch their precious balls. The tennis ball are their 'invisible leashes'. Except one day it didn't work – Mona strayed across the "Dog Beach Ends Here" sign. That cost us a $75 municipal fine.

My wife and I always enjoy knowing our dogs are happy. So the ticket was worth it.

San Diego County has the best dog beaches!

This is of a series of posters I made for San Diego.

I took the photo as Charlton Heston was skippering the Star of India departing San Diego Harbor. under full sail. 

The Star of India, based at the San Diego Maritime Museum, is the world's oldest active sailing ship. She began her life on the stocks at Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man in 1863.

Touché and Mona explores the green belt near their house in San Diego. Here they enjoy the free spirited life style of a Brittany bird dog soaring over bushes climbing hills in search of the always ellusive cotton-tail rabbits which they have never caught. – But they always enjoyed their jaunts.