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,by Suzanne L. Adams
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"With the Roses"

With the Roses - Soft Pastels
(soft pastel painting)
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Story
    This painting was inspired by the memories of my German Shepherd Dog, Duchess, who was the greatest part of my childhood and everything a child could ever hope for in a dog.  She pulled me on my bike in the summertime and down the creek on my skates in the winter.  She protected me from all harm and never once gave up her love and loyalty to me.  When I went away to college, it was my mother who then cared for her and gave her the attention I could no longer provide.  My mother loved to work in her rose garden, trimming and nurturing each precious rose.  Duchess would follow her from bush to bush and both were comforted from the loss of children busy doing other things.  Although this painting was aided by old photographs, the background was mostly contrived.  The roses were merely bare stalks and the fence was really chain link in the photos I kept of them together in the garden.  I could have called this painting, "My German Shepherd's Eyes" for whenever I called for her she would turn her head and look up with those sweet, kind eyes as if to say, “Yes master?”  Those eyes I will never ever forget, as long as I live.    -Suzanne

"With the Roses" was featured on the cover of the Spring,
1990 issue of the German Shepherd Quarterly Magazine.
 

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Read the poem and listen to the song, "Real Life"

See Other German Shepherd Portraits:
"Fire Talk" / "Dog & Butterfly"  / "The Good Shepherd"  / "Sophie"  / Stryker"


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