After two reschedules due to rain, we finally had our session with Goldy. When Goldy’s owner, Jean, contacted me I knew I would be photographing a true family member. On her client questionnaire Jean said, “Goldy will be our only family dog and I want to get some special pictures.”
Goldy is the “only” family dog not because of illness or allergies or some unfortunate circumstance – but because of life. Jean, and her husband Don, have three boys. And they are growing. And they are leaving. With one son already in college Jean realized there will truly never be another real family dog.
And so we met Goldy. On one of the most spectacular pieces of property in Loudoun County, on a sometimes gray, sometimes sunny afternoon – we met the only family dog. Jean told us they found the property when the boys were young. A stunning setting, with home and barns dating back to the civil war. There is so much beauty on this property it is almost overwhelming. And so much history that you can feel it.
But for Goldy it is home. A place where she raised her three boys, ran with them on the sweeping lawn and tromped with them through the fields and woods on their many childhood adventures. Now she watches for two boys to come off that school bus. Soon it will be just one. She takes her job very seriously.
If you could have only one family dog I couldn’t imagine a better one than Goldy. 
by Bev
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