Sunday, April 3, 2011

Bark for Life - American Cancer Society

Today my daughter April and I joined the American Cancer Society 1st Annual "Bark for Life" walk and I think it was a big success and if I get the chance I'll definitely do it again next year!

There were so many beautiful dogs there and dog people are just the nicest bunch of people ever! The walk was held at Yokuts Park which sits on the edge of the mighty Kern River. In this first mosaic I put a couple of pictures of the river. It's really full and flowing right now because of all the rain and run-off from the snow in the mountains. It was a beautiful, sunny, windy spring day. I even got a little bit of a sunburn!

Here's Chorizo and me in the top right and April and Chorizo in the bottom left.


Chorizo took third prize in the costume contest. She was dressed as a Sundae...a Chorizo Sundae! Here's some random pictures of all the people and their doggies!


It was a lot of fun and hopefully there was a lot of money raised!

Please visit all the other mosaics by clicking HERE and visiting Mary at Little Red House for Mosaic Monday!


Also linking up to Susan at A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday.



*****JUST AN UPDATE, I HEARD ON THE NEWS THAT OVER $10,000 WAS RAISED!!! ****

29 comments:

  1. Sounds like you had a fun day and one that was a blessing to others as well. Ah, sunburn ... I can't wait. Still too cold here! Your little dog is darling!
    ~Lynn

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  2. Looks like a beautiful day for a terrific event! Love the Chorizo Sundae :)

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  3. Lynn at Cottage and Creek -I hope your weather warms up soon too. Even though I did get sunburned it was a glorious day!

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  4. Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook - We were lucky the weather was gorgeous. If it had been last weekend it would definitely have been rained out! Chorizo was quite the hit with her Sundae outfit!

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  5. Looks like you had a great day for a walk. And I hope lots of funds were raised.

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  6. It's nice to hear about people and their doggies together in a Walk for a very good Cause. You were lucky the weather was favourable.

    Chorizo is naturally 'sunburnt', and as usually steals the show from anyone else.

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  7. What a great way to support a good cause and to spend time with your daughter. Love that costume!

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  8. A great day for such a worthy cause. Your little Chorizo is so cute as a sundae.

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  9. looks like you had a lovely day - thankyou for sharing your pics with us.
    Thankyou also for coming to my blog. I appreciated hearing from you.

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  10. Lorrie - Thanks for commenting! I heard on the news this morning that over $10,000 were raised. Not bad for the 1st annual right?

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  11. DUTA - Yes, Chorizo is quite a character :-D She was like a kid in a candy store with all those different smells & people and lots of kids to show her some love!

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  12. Paula - Thanks! It was a great way to spend time with April. Beats sitting around the house eating & watching TV :-D

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  13. Vee - Thank you. It cracked me up because the announcer during the costume contest called her a Chorizo Sundae :-D

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  14. Life Images by Jill - And thank you right back for visiting me!

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  15. Bark for Life sounds like a wonderful idea -- people who love dogs getting together for a worthy cause. NICE!

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  16. What a wonderful and good idea. I love all the dogs and yours is gorgeous. Lovely mosaics

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  17. EG Wow - I thought it was a pretty good idea myself. I hope they really do this every year. It was a lot of fun. Maybe it will catch on all over?

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  18. What a great idea! You sure looked like you three were having a good time.

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  19. Pondside - Thanks for commenting. I do hope it catches on. It was definitely fun!

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  20. Riet - Awww, thanks. We think she's a pretty special dog also.

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  21. Aww!..lovely idea, congrats to Chorizo for the win, cute costume.
    Beautiful place to walk for such a great cause.
    The park and river are soo pretty.
    I know yall been getting lots of rain, we have had wind and rain lately here in southeast Georgia, the wind broke one of my loblolly pines down, I posted about the broken crosses,hope you have time for a visit.I'm visiting from Outdoor Wednesday.
    ~Jo
    LazyonLoblolly

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  22. What a wonderful thing to do and Chorizo really helped out too.

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  23. love your shots...thanks for sharing to everybody about cancer awareness and to your cute dogs who've been part of the event as well...visiting you from Outdoor Wednesday..followed you through GFC, hope you'll follow me back...

    mine's here:
    http://lovingoutliving.blogspot.com/2011/04/antulang-beach-resort.html

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  24. Jo - Thanks so much for stopping by, it is a beautiful park. It was my first time there.

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  25. Donnie - I totally agree Donnie, it was Chorizo that kept me motivated to keep going, she was so happy to be there and have both of us with her!

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  26. Ai KaiRui Liu - Thank you so much for stopping by! I'm heading over to check out your blog :-D

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  27. Chorizo is adorable! Glad you walked for cancer. Put some sun tan lotion on that wind burn. Take care. See you next week.
    Joyce M

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  28. Light and Voices - I've always wanted to do a walk, this one was perfect because I got to do it with my daughter and with Chorizo. thanks for the advice on my sun/wind burn, it's much better now luckily!

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