Shelties travel to Chester NJ

This week I have to deliver this pet portrait mailbox to Chester,NJ. It was ordered through a shop, Chester Crafts and Collectibles where I rent space to retail my pet products. Chester is a historical town which hosts many antique and specialty shops. It has some excellent restaurants and of course one can buy great farm produce in this rural site in Northwest NJ. I was assisted of course by my favorite critic EMMA--she is resting now in true cat mode--sounds good to me too.

NEW JERSEY WOLVES

This past weekend I took tome off from painting and visited the wolves of NJ in a compound in Warren County, NJ. There are 24 wolves living there on 10 acres of wilderness preserve. It is challenging to photograph the wolves as there is double chain link fencing surrounding the preserve . With the aid of the retouch tool in my iphoto program on my MacBook I was able to erase a good portion of the obtrusive fence in some of the photos. It is worth the trip to hear all 24 wolves howl in unison. The wolvws respon d to their names. The current population came from Colorado and were raised as pups--The handler at one time had 17 pups at his home. The preserve is limited to 24 wolves so only 5 were allowed to stay. The others went to other preserves around the US