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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
December 23, 2004
For December, we had warm, shirtsleeve weather. Our game bags hung with a pleasing plumpness about our shoulders. A breeze blew softly, riffling the golden tops of the standing grain. Boots, the longhaired wirehair pointer, stood stock-still, coiled like a spring. Frozen on point, her eyes were....