We noticed Rocco is now starting to get a bit slower with his lymphoma. I figure a few more weeks with him is all we will have. It got me to thinking about our first few days when we brought him home and the memories it dredged up.
This Photo I had taken right after we got Rocco from Brother Wolf. It was winter and Ice was on the ground. This was in Charlottesville while I was working at the University at UVA Medical Center. A few things was going on for me that day other than us taking Rocco in. I was also just getting into amateur photography as well.
This was the first photo I had taken with my Kodak Brownie six-20 box camera that I found at a local pawn shop. I used B&W 120 film, ISO 400. I did not think the photo was to bad for a cardboard camera that they quit making in the 1950's. My wife was tickled to death that day. She was very happy because first off it was the first time in her life that she ever had a dog of her own. Second, it was our first outing as the typical husband,wife and dog family. Keeping in mind my wife comes from the type of family that is not much of well a family if you get my meaning.
We had decided we would go roam the campus and we had stopped at the University Chapel. The history of the Chapel that is behind Beth and Rocco is that in the late 19th century, community members raised funds to establish a non-denominational church on the University Grounds. The Gothic Revival building was designed by Charles Emmet Cassell of Baltimore, the chapel's cornerstone was laid in 1885.Services are still held in that church today. Lots of history on that campus, Lots of good memories for her and I while we where there as well.