Rest

HBM to all. May your bottoms rest on comfortable benches and your day be calm and gentle.

This is in the Wheatbelt town of Dowerin in WA. There are a number of benches along the main street, all of which are bright red. Note also the tin dog on the wall to the right. Again a number of dogs appear throughout the town, most of them with a front paw extended. This is Tin Dog country, named after Tin Dog Creek just outside the town where, according to folklore, miners on their trek from Perth to the Kalgoorlie goldfields (about 600 km) stopped to camp and eat on their journey, and where they left their empty corned beef tins.

Just outside the town is a large statue of a tin dog ("Rusty") designed and built by students from the local high school in 2004.

UPDATE WITH PiPs
Three PiPs are in the top left edge of this picture: the first is of Rusty; the second is of Rosey, created in 2020 as a female companion for Rusty; the third is a tin dog affixed to a litter bin and doing what dogs do to such structures. These pictures were taken by She Who Must Be Obeyed and I give her much thanks for her permission to use them. Many thanks, too, to the delightful and caring Ecobird for helping me by telling me how to add PiPs. This was most necessary for I am an owl of very little brain ...