Emily | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
The color purple represents royalty and is often associated with nobility. The color can also suggest riches and romance. For me all these things are present in these pictures of Emily with the fallen purple foliage from the Jacaranda tree. Emily is my little princess that enriches my life daily; I’m completely in love with her.
Emily | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Rufus | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Hiking makes up a significant part of our weekly routine. We try to hike about 3-4 days a week and many Saturdays with a sub-group of doxie friends affectionately called the Leaner Wieners Hiking Club. If you’re local to LA please feel free to join us sometime at Wilacre Park in Fryman Canyon.
Emily & Rufus | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Emily | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Last week I bought one of those run-of-the-mill kiddie pools at a local drug store, specifically to keep the dachshunds from becoming hot dogs. This weekend while we were doxie sitting some friends I decided to try it out. Emily really seemed to enjoy the pool the most out of the group this weekend, but the summer is still young.
Polie, Milo & Emily | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Kaia | June 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
I’d normally not showcase another smooth black and tan doxie the day after I featured one, but today is a very special day because it’s Kaia’s birthday. Kaia is 5 today. Happy, happy birthday.
Kaia | June 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Cricket | May 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Continuing our showcase of lone doxies, it’s my pleasure to introduce the smooth black and tan named Cricket. She was a friend of a friend’s dachshund and though our time together was brief, she was a brilliant model as I recall. To me, Cricket has the eyes of an old and wise soul. What do you think?
Cricket | May 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Emily | May 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
RufusontheWeb.com is a standalone website, and in order to make people aware of its existence I used various social media outlets to titillate people’s interest. I gave reference to this once before, but if you’re on Tumblr, please visit us there: http://rufusontheweb.tumblr.com/. The collection of photos on that site is different than the ones featured here. In order to view the current 14 pages of photos you do have to create a Tumblr account, if you don’t have one already.
You’re also welcome to follow us on twitter to see the same assembly of photos (as on Tumblr): @jortez. Lots of options are available in today’s technically advanced society. I affectionately call these bonus pics, but looking back, some of them are pretty good.
Laci | February 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Marley | April 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Last week we gave tribute to bonded pairs. This week we highlight some lone doxies who seem to be perfectly content being the center of attention fulltime. Meet Marley the longhair black and tan, who was easy on the eyes and a joy to photograph. Marley’s human, like me, is from Texas so on the day of his photo shoot he got a blowout. In Texas the philosophy is the hair can never be too big and the taller the hair the closer to God. I loved Marley’s interpretation of Texas big hair. What do you think? Marley was 3 at the time of the photos.
Marley | April 2011. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Rufus & Emily | May 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Dachshund Outreach Giving and Socialization is our newly formed nonprofit 501c3. In addition to private donations we plan to sell dachshund specialty items – like canvass wraps, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, etc. – using some of the images you have seen on this site. Which ones have been your favorites?
If you’re on Facebook please be certain to stop by and “Like” our recently created page. More information will follow about the selling of limited edition prints. In the meantime, Happy Tuesday.
Emily & Rufus | May 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Rufus | May 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
While you’re back at the desk working for the man, think of Rufus at the beach basking in the rays and imagine yourself right there with him. Happy Monday.
Rufus | May 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
Rufus | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
This weekend is LA Pride, and Rufus and Emily want to wish everyone a very happy and safe pride celebration.
Rufus & Emily | June 2012. Photo by: Johnny Ortez-Tibbels
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