Feathers From Heaven

Bunny here, with another post about our trip.

The last day of our vacation, Mom and I wanted to go and have time to enjoy the beach.  She knew how much I enjoyed the water, so we went down there to take a walk.  We enjoyed seeing lots of other dogs down there as well as people.  The sky was beautiful and the weather was perfect.  It was a great last day at the beach. 

While we were walking along, Mom told me about how much Treat used to love playing in the ocean, too.  She said it was Treat's favorite thing to do when they came to the beach.  I can certainly understand why!  As we walked, we spotted a feather on the beach.  You may be thinking that it's probably not uncommon to see a feather on the beach.  After all, there are lots of birds near the beach, however, we hadn't seen one so far.  A lot of people believe that feathers mean that someone in heaven is thinking about you.  We even bought a picture from an artist who painted portraits of dogs who'd crossed the Bridge and included a feather in the picture. Mom said maybe Treat was thinking of us.

Then, while we were walking back, we found a butterfly who was caught in the ocean.  It's wings were wet and it couldn't get into the dry sand.  So, we gave it a lift on my long line and it hung on there, drying its wings as we walked back towards our spot on the beach.  We stopped and I allowed Mom to take some more pictures of me on the beach, and wouldn't you know it, the butterfly climbed right up on her hand.  It sat there for a long time, and finally it was tickling Mom too much, so she set it down in the sand.  We sat there with it for a while before we walked back up to the hotel.  I hope it dried off and flew away.

I don't know if there were signs from Treat on the beach or not, but it's nice to think she was looking out for us and enjoying it with us.  I'm just glad that it was a perfect last day to enjoy the beach!