Who is Lily?

Lily is a dog.
My husband and I got her while vacationing in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico in 2000.  She is a Mexican Hairless, also called, Xolo.  Her original name was Madonna when we bought her for $50.  She flew home with us and we promptly renamed her "Chicken Lily Potato".  She was only 10 weeks old and looked like a baked potato with a mohawk!  She has been traveling with me to my studio ever since.  She has always been around the curling, hammering and twisting of wire.  This is one of my favorite shots of her in the Solana Beach studio back in the LoriJane days when we were making lanterns and flower accessories.
    

Lily LOVES the beach.
She finds, chases, digs and hoards rocks!  Until recently discovering that she is going blind, I'd throw them for her and she'd retrieve them like a ball!  Now it's getting harder for her to see...but she still loves the beach!

She even camps at the beach in Cardiff with us!

and camps in the desert...

and hikes in the mountains!

and takes loooooong walks in the aspens...

and goes on loooooong road trips!

We don't have children, you could have guessed, we have Lily. 
She is our love.

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