Here are the girls posing in front of a beautiful outcrop of daisies, and they're quite happy as you can see. Here's the backstory: Our precious Daisy (our second golden) was the matriarch of the pack, and she received her angel wings over 3 years ago, toward the end of May . . .

Being the youngest means that sometimes you have to wait for the big sisters to finish what they're doing before you can play. Ginger watches her sisters intently while patiently waiting with her front feet tucked right underneath her.

. . . Perhaps she was thinking about her younger sisters ZuZu and Ginger and wondering where in the heck they got all of that energy to run and chase each other with abandon through the snow.

. . . They had gathered under the shade to rest for a spell, so I rounded them up for a quick pic. My wife is the one who usually does the sitting and staying for our portrait photos, but since she was away for a while, I used a shorter lens and tried to get them to pose on my own.

The girls love being outside in the summer, and you can see from this image that they are pretty content indeed. We enjoy growing wildflowers in the back, especially patches for butterflies and hummingbird, and these make for some beautiful backgrounds when we can get the girls to cooperate . . .

When the sun is soft in the west, and the flowers and grasses are in full bloom, it makes for a beautiful setting if the girls will cooperate . . .