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SPOTLIGHT
Darla (click to enlarge)
That's for little dogs!
When Darla, a Great Dane, came in for her portrait sitting with her people, Tina and Neil, she set about making herself comfortable.
"I often pose small dogs on top of pedestals or stools, and I'll also use pedestals for people to sit on," says David, "but I would not have thought to try this with a Dane."
"I had the pedestal out for Darla's humans. When I saw her start backing toward it I said, 'She won't sit there, will she?' Tina said, 'Oh, sure.' Darla made herself comfortable and I made an amusing photo."
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REFLECTION & REFRACTION
Vernon S Sutton
8/28/1926 - 10/31/2007
 I wasn't born in Alvin, Illinois on the eve of America's Great Depression. I didn't spend my childhood "dirt poor" in LaPrairie, Illinois. I didn't have a dog named Rags, a brother called Bump, or friends named Ernel Dean Ihnen and Homer Simms.
I didn't drive a car pulling a trailer from LaPrairie to Fort Worth, Texas when I was barely old enough to reach the pedals. I didn't go off to college at sixteen or pledge the Sigma Chi fraternity. When I turned eighteen I did not enlist in the army, and I didn't meet my future wife shipboard in the Pacific Ocean while en route to join America's occupation forces in Tokyo.
But because Vern Sutton was my dad, all these people and experiences, and many, many more, have become an important part of the fabric of my life.
Because Vern Sutton was my dad, there was a time, if you happened to be my wife or one of my sisters, that you could make me good and mad just by calling me Vern. I'm thankful that I've been able to put those days behind me. I now consider it a badge of honor.
I'm not saying, like Mark Twain said, that I'm "astonished at how much the old man learned over a period of a few short years." I know it was I who learned. And I knew I'd really learned something when I was finally able to grasp that Dad had done the very best he could with the resources he had available to him, and that that was good enough.
We can be so hard on the ones we love. I thank God that my dad lived long enough for me to cut him some slack, that he was here long enough for me to enjoy, and to love unconditionally, as I believe he loved us.
Vern Sutton was a good man. Even though burying my dad feels like burying part of myself, like part of me has died, much of Vern will live on in me, and, God willing, in my brothers and sisters, my daughter, all my nieces and my nephews, and everyone else whose life Vern Sutton has touched.
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COMMUNITY FOCUS
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 Dog Days 2008
Nearly 6,000 copies of this beautiful calendar (featuring our equally lovely clients) have already made their way to animal welfare organizations across Chicagoland to help them raise funds for their important work.
Help us help these shelters and humane societies by visiting them to make a donation in exchange for calendars (just in time for holiday giving).
We still have more calendars to donate! If you work with an animal welfare organization that doesn't yet have some, contact Stacey to arrange a pick-up!
 Charity Art Show
Join us Thursday, November 29th, from 3pm to 9pm, at H. Marion Framing, for an art show benefitting the Fairygodmother Foundation. A portion of sales will go to help grant the wishes of terminally ill adults. Come see some of David's (and other artists') work, and support a worthy cause!
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