That’s my friend Mary with two of her standard poodles.  Until I stayed at Mary’s house I had never spent any time around Standard Poodles. I can see the attraction to them.  Their intelligence is very obvious and they move with a certain grace that is hard to describe. I was hoping to get a nice portrait of Mary and her poodles but the picture above is as close as we got. Trying to corral these canines proved to be a chore, as the picture below demonstrates. The dogs had other ideas. ❧