Celebrating Pip On Her Birthday

All is not chaos and despair, although it would seem that way if you read the papers.

And the vast majority of the kids in the UK are not dressed in hoodies and smashing store windows.

One in particular lives on a farm in Northern Ireland, where she wields her camera expertly, and documents the lives of the dogs and sheep as they grow up together.

Today, is Pip's first birthday, and if there is a prettier border collie anywhere on that side of Atlantic, OS would be surprised.

The intrepid blogger gives us a summary of her first year. Enjoy.

Green Shoots Nominee: The Dogs Of Greenhill Farm

OS links this blog in gallery of favorites, and hopes his readers visit often. It is created and maintained by a young school-girl in Northern Ireland, and it is therapeutic to visit her world, untroubled by power-hungry crazed adults, floods and earthquakes, and religious nutters of all varieties.

She's a crack journalistic photographer, and is developing into an adept wordsmith as well. Joy and a gentle humor characterize every posting, and it is obvious how deeply she loves her dogs.

If we could clone a few million more with her brains and character, we would be well on the way to a much happier planet.

Today's post features stills from the recent Balmoral agricultural exposition. Delightful stuff.