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Two Guys from Minnesota and their assortment of huskies (currently Zeena and Tonttu) sharing their outdoor adventures
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Does Panther do barn hunt? Perhaps she was expecting something else to come out of that tube!
A lean, pointy-eared dog with white fur and a plumb colored jacket sniffs a clear plastic tube with holes drilled in it to let the rat inside breathe. A hand removes a pneumatic tube with a big number 4 on the side from a bank teller drive-up kiosk.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A perfect moment: milkweed pods opening, seed tufts glowing in the sunlight. Occasionally the breeze lifts one gently into the air to twirl & dance away.

I stopped to capture the tranquil scene on video.

Tonttu was not content to wait for the wind to work its magic.

#Huskies #Milkweed #Videograph
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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And some more photos of our various short adventures this last week, close to home.
The usual trio, Jeff, Zeena and Tonttu, walk down a path mowed in a moderately short prairie. Jeff has turned back to smile at the camera, while the huskies continue on. There is a line of yellow and orange trees on the horizon, and a bright blue sky dotted with puffy clouds. The grass is still mostly green, despite the onset of late fall. Zeena approaches the camera, held down close to husky-level, looking back down a trail in a grassland that is clumpy with the dead stalks of flowering plants mixed in with the grass. There are also several solitary evergreen trees and one maple tree holding on to a lacy veil of bright red leaves that stands out against a sky covered with a broken layer of white cloud. Jeff and Zeena lead the way down a path mowed wide through a tall bluegrass prairie, the dried grasses reddish-beige and brown. The center of the trail is a dirt track down the middle of a short greenish strip, with wider beige sections on the side where the prairie has been mode back in preparation for nordic ski grooming this winter. Tonttu leads the photographer in the foreground. Tonttu stands side-on to the camera, all the better to appreciate the mud in his fur from his paws up to his shoulder, sides and hips. He looks back at the camera with no shame, and only a questioning look to ask whether photos are done so we can continue hiking. He's standing on ground covered in brown oak leaves in a forest. The muddy stream he was just wallowing in is out of sight to the right.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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An overly busy week at work has kept me from posting, but we did get out for a couple of nice hikes as fall colors continue their transition to winter austerity.

Here's Tonttu investigating something in the tall Bluegrass prairie at the north end of Afton State Park.

#Huskies #Prairie #Bluegrass
A wide expanse of tall, reddish-beige bluegrass prairie grass covers most of the scene, with low hills and distant trees on the horizon. In the foreground, a husky is head-first into the grass, only his big, white curly tail an hind end standing out, the rest of him disappearing into the grass.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Enjoying a slow, lazy start to our Saturday.

#Huskies
Tonttu, a large wolfish husky lies on a human bed with early morning light coming in from the right. His head is lifted slightly, enough for his jaw to open wide in a big yawn, with his tongue spilling out like a big pink playground slide. The sunlight passes through Venetian blinds, making a bold diagonal striped pattern across the dog, bed and wooden headboard behind, which intersect the light in narrow vertical slats.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Still life with huskies

#Huskies #Photography #Chiaroscuro
A black and white photo of Tonttu lying on his back on the people bed as early morning light starts to filter through the Venetian blinds behind, lighting his belly and paws in stark chiaroscuro. His hind legs are closest to the viewer, splayed out in a dramatic diagonal, one down to the left and the other up to the right. Past his shining white belly one paw stretches out towards the far end of the bed and the other drapes across his chest.
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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You do NOT want to hear him do the Lion's Roar!
The Landlady from Kung Fu Hustle with her hair in curlers and wearing a night dress performs the lion's roar in Pig's Sty Alley as her husband watches on.
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Dog-owner home decorating!

Tonttu knocked over the floor lamp in our living room. The shade had already been cracked by a previous canine mishap. This time it shattered.

@ordercollie.com got creative with a dog cone for a temporary replacement!

#Huskies #InteriorDecoration #RepairReuseRecycle
A living room with a mid-century brick fireplace and a couple of wildlife prints on the walls hosts a floor lamp with a narrow cone made of a couple layers of translucent material. It's putting out a warm light.
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Good freeze overnight, so the leaves are really coming down now. We got Zeena and Tonttu out for a walk around the neighborhood to enjoy the colors while they last.
Wolfish Alaskan husky Tonttu, with icy blue eyes, trots towards the camera for his closeup, tongue dangling out the side of his muzzle. He's in front of the same red maple trees in full autumn splendor as Zeena in the other photo, a rosy pile of leaves scattered on the ground below. Husky Zeena pauses amid a grassy verge covered in red autumn leaves, looking back at the camera lit by low, late-afternoon autumn sun. Red maple trees above, mostly in shadow, create a dark backdrop to the brightly lit husky. The leaves on the ground are a mix of deep red, when sunny side up, or pale pink when the backside is showing.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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After being stuck indoors all day yesterday due to the rain, Zeena was extra talkative before today's walk. I made it worse by delaying our walk even further by getting video!
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is more of today's mood, but without the sunshine.

#Huskies #BWPhotography
Zeena the husky from the original post, only this time she's sitting up in the sunshine, making a big yawn. The picture has been rendered in black and white.
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Today is cold and dark and rainy and windy. Having fond memories of a sunnier times a few days ago...

#Huskies #Sunshine
A mostly white Siberian Husky, Zeena, lies on her back on a hardwood floor in a ray of sunshine, which creates a dramatic halo and shadows in chiaroscuro from the right. Her legs are splayed out at various angles. One bit of light passing through a slat-backed chair beyond her casts a boldly striped triangular shadow on the dark floor.
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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*stomp* *stomp* *stomp*
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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From yesterday's lunchtime walk at Lebanon Hills. Autumn colors are definitely popping here in the Twin Cities metro area!

#Huskies #Hiking #AutumnColors
Siberian Husky Zeena leads her human photographer down a path that winds through young deciduous forest in Autumn. The path includes a wooden section over a low area in an artsy "s" shape that winds into the trees off to the right. A hill rises to the left full of dark young tree trunks, branches holding bright yellow and orange leaves, and ferns below a mix of greens and reddish browns. In the foreground, one side has dark green oak leaves not yet ready for winter, and fuzzy moss poking through the leaf litter on the other.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Outtake from our recent #hike at #JayCooke state park with the #Huskies
Two huskies on the precipice of a descent into autumn-colored woods. Zeena, a Siberian Husky looks intently down the trail. Meanwhile, Tonttu, an Alaskan Dufus joyfully rolls in the damp fallen leaves on the side of the trail.
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Tonttu took full advantage of the stream flowing out from Mound Springs Park on our warm hike today. He could not stop laying down in the stream as we hiked the path that follows it.

Pawing at riffling water was something Gypsy used to do. It's sweet that Tonttu is picking up the habit. 🥹
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Did you try hunting for food? Zeena tried (and failed) to catch us some frogs' legs today, but we weren't desperate for food, so we didn't mind.
Husky Zeena pounces a frog in tall grass along a trail.
September 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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From that same trip: Zeena and Gypsy both enjoyed foraging for blackberries along the trail in the woodlands. Tonttu has yet to learn this skill.

#Hiking #Huskies #Blackberries
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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#SilentSunday

Light breezes making waves across late-summer sumac several years ago.
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Apparently a 4.25 mi run was not enough for Zeena or Tonttu! They had PLENTY of energy left afterwards:

#Huskies
September 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Apparently, every first Wednesday of the month, 1 PM, there's a coyote party at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Sadly, neither Zeena or Tonttu could be convinced to join in.

#Huskies #Coyotes
September 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This is the canine equivalent of:
August 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This is why humans evolved thumbs!
Human Jeff lies on the floor to reach under the media cabinet for a ball that had been lost there by Wizard, a Siberian Husky who waits patiently off to the side.
August 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Gypsy learned at a very young age that duckweed may look like grass, but it doesn't have the same husky load bearing capacity!
A young Gypsy, around 9 months old, is standing on a wooden dock, fur wet, but a happy look on her muzzle. The water behind is covered in a thick layer of green duckweed.
August 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Tonttu was our first dog to have a drinking problem! He splashed water all over the floor with his big tongue. We tried a special splash-resistant bowl, and it's been working great!

Water rises through the depression in the floating cover, enough to drink but not enough to make a mess.
Husky Tonttu approaches a splashless water bowl. It's a squareish reservoir with straight sides and a floating cover on top of the water with a depression with small holes in the middle that lets a small amount of water through.
July 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM