Thanks again to everyone who packed the house at Apple, to those of you who shared your photographs, and especially to the ASMP. for organizing this event. We are indebted to you all!
Tomorrow, Saturday December 13th, Barbara will be at Blick Art Store on Kingsbury from 12-4:00 pm. She will signing and selling books and will have some nifty new greyhounds accessories (and t-shirts and posters!) in tow as well.
In addition, several reps from Greyhounds Only, Inc. will be in attendance with dogs! They will be available to discuss the merits of greyhound guardianship.
How fun will it be to meet a few greyhounds, get your book signed and do a little last minute holiday shopping all at once?
In preparation for her talk at the Apple Store, Barbara has been juxtaposing various types of imagery. Shown here is Serta International Center in Hoffman Estates, IL, a project she shot last month for Andrew Metter of Epstein/Annex5. Serta is a multifaceted project that will be shot repetitively over the next 3 seasons. Barbara is very excited about the “photo ops” the building presents. Fortunately, the weather cooperated for some late fall shots before the leaves were completely gone and the landscape was reminiscent of the brindle greyhound below.
The chilly weather here in Chicago already has us reminiscing about warmer, sunnier times!
With this in mind, we’ve revisited some photos from the Greyhounds Reach the Beach event last month in Delaware that Photographer Ray Wong was kind enough to share with us…
Over the weekend, 320 people convened at the Warren Park Field House in Chicago for the (lucky) 13th annual Greyhounds Only Reunion…
Barbara with Slim and Fancy at the reunion. Slim is our handsome cover model for the book. He was 6 at the time the cover photo was taken and now he’s 13!
For more photos of GREYHOUNDS the book at the reunion, check out our new flickr site.
Thanks to Laura Dion-Jones Casey, we got some great footage of a group greyhound roo! (That’s the Snobhounds booth featured in the background!)
Here’s what Barbara had to say about the reunion:
“On Sunday, Greyhounds Only had our 13th annual reunion. It was truly remarkable to see how GO has grown from a handful of volunteers saving the dogs, to many many people who were there honoring their wonderful companions.
Some people are superstitious about the number 13, but I have always thought it very lucky. I reconfirmed that theory today, as I looked around and saw so many faces I recognized and just as many faces that I was unfamiliar with. I remember when Greyhounds Only was small enough that I could recognize every dog and every person. However, some things never change: all the dogs looked well groomed and well fed and as always smiling faces both canine and human surrounded me. How can any of us be any luckier than that!
It was a time to make new friends and renew old acquaintances, to think about all the dogs that can be helped in the upcoming year and what we can do to make Greyhounds Only’s 14th year even better than our Lucky 13! My hope is that GREYHOUNDS can reach out beyond the group I work with to help the dogs in other groups across the country.”
In travel news, Barbara recently returned from an eventful trip to Dewey Beach, Delaware for the Greyhounds book launch at the annual Greyhounds Reach the Beach event. She participated in the Greyhounds in Art show, signed books at 166 Read Street, the Gem store, and Browseabout Books, presented a Greyhounds slideshow at Crabbers Cove and had a chance to catch up with many friends, new and old.
Barbara with Slim and Fancy at the reunion. Slim is our handsome cover model for the book. He was 6 at the time the cover photo was taken and now he’s 13!
