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PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY DALMATIANS
PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY DALMATIANS
AKC BOS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 MBISS MBOSS GCHG DAKOTA SNOWOOD SECRET WISH DCAT CGC
PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY DALMATIANS IS OWNED BY LINDA DALY (AKA LINDA ELIZABETH MILES) & STEPHEN DALY. OUR CHILDREN ARE SEAN DALY AND JESSE DALY WHO WOULD STEP IN IN THE EVENT OF OUR INABILITY TO CARRY FORWARD. OUR GRAND CHILDREN, AGE 15, 5 AND 4, ALSO LOVE OUR DALMATIANS, IMAGINE, LEVY AND FINNLEY. WE ARE LOCATED ON 5 ACRES IN THE BLACK FOREST OF COLORADO.
WE WANT TO THANK THE BREEDERS OF OUR FOUNDATION DALMATIAN MANDOLINE FOR ENTRUSTING US TO HAVE HER BE PART OF OUR FAMILY AT PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY, AKA SAPPHIRE. YOU ARE FABULOUS!!!
BREEDERS OF MANDOLINE
Kristine Benoit
l986 Dakota 1st Dalmatian
Breeder of Merit
DCA Board
Chicagoland Dalmatian Club
Meg Hennessey
1972 First Dalmatian
Breeder of Merit
DCAF Treasurer 2018-2024
St. Louis & Chicagoland Dalmatian Clubs
DEBBIE SMITH
DALMATIAN LOVER OF MANDOLINE'S MOM DAISY
THANK YOU SAMANTHA STAFFORD FOR STEPPING INTO SHOW MANDOLINE PARTICULARLY AT THE 2024 DCA NATIONAL,2024 DALMATIAN SPECIALTY EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THE 2024 ROYAL CANINE AKC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN ORLANDO WITH GREAT SUCCESS!!!
GCHG
MULTIPLE GROUP AWARDS
21 BOB
#8 RANKED GRAND CHAMPION POINTS
TIED #10 2024 BREED 196 POINTS
# 3 GIRL IN BREED TIED
#23 ALL BREED
AOM AWARDED BY BREEDER JUDGE EVA BERG AT 2024
DCA NATIONAL SPECIALTY IN GEORGIA
MBISS
ATLANTA, WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGOLAND & ST LOUIS
AWARDED RESPECTIVELY BY JUDGE CHARLES L. OLVIS,JUDGE RAYMOND V. FILBURN,
JUDGE RONALD I. SPRITZER, AND JUDGE SANDRA BINGHAM-PORTER.
MBOSS Both Phoenix Specialties and Palm Springs
SELECT
AWARDED BY BREEDER JUDGE ROBERT VON MAYR AT THE 2024 GREATER DENVER DALMATIAN CLUB PM SPECIALTY.
AOM AWARDED BY JUDGE SANDRA BINGHAM-PORTER AT THE 2024 GREATER TWIN CITY DALMATIAN CLUB AM SPECIALTY.
AND IN CROWNING GLORY--
BOS AWARDED BY BREEDER JUDGE EVA BERG AT THE ROYAL CANINE AKC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN ORLANDO.
WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO HAVE SAMANTHA STAFFORD AS HANDLER, WHO IS ALSO A DALMATIAN BREEDER AND DALMATIAN SPECIALIST. IT IS ALSO WONDERFUL TO HAVE OUR MUTUAL FRED, ENCHANTED HART N GREEN STARR'S HOLD THE PHONE, AS A SHARED ENTERPRISE. SEE HIS PAGE.
Marvelous Handling SAMANTHA!
ALSO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK WITH OUR HANDSOME STUD SUNDANCE AND THE AWARDS YOU HELPED HIM WIN AT DCA 2023, 2024 CHICAGOLAND AND 2025 INDY. SEE HIS PAGE!
YOU ARE A TREASURE!
​THANK YOU KAT WALLIS AND YOUR JUNIORS ON STAFF FOR YOUR WONDERFUL HANDLING IN 2023 OF MANDOLINE TO
GCHB & GCHS
MULTIPLE GROUP AWARDS
38 BOB AWARDS
11 GRAND CHAMPION POINTS RANKING
218 GRAND CHAMPION POINTS
# 11 ALL SYSTEMS FOR 2023
308 BREED POINTS
1160 ALL BREED POINTS
Top 20 STATUS
BISS AWARDED BY JUDGE LINDA LEWIN AT THE NORTH TEXAS DALMATIAN SPECIALTY, WHILE HANDLED BY BFF OF KAT IN A CONFLICT SITUATION, ANNA MYSLIIWIEC.
BOS AWARDED BY jUDGES PAT M. JENKINS AT THE 2023 GREATER PHOENIX DALMATIAN SPECIALTY AND 5 BOB AT THAT SPECIALTY WEEKEND.
BOS AND SELECT AT THE GREATER DENVER DALMATIAN CLUB 2023 SUPPORTED EVENT IN DENVER FOR THE DENVER KC.
OTHER HANDLERS AT 2023 NATIONAL
AND NOT TO FORGET OUR THANKS TO ROD STRAND! HE SHOWED MANDOLINE TO A SELECT AWARDED BY JUDGE CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN NEALE AT THE 2023 DCA NATIONAL MT. HOOD SPECIALTY, AS KAT HAD A CONFLICT.
KRIS BENOIT ALSO SHOWED MANDOLINE BEAUTIFULLY AT THE PUDGET SOUND SPECIALTY AT THE NATIONAL AND AT THE DCA NATIONAL, MAKING CUTS BUT NOT AN AWARD.
OVER THE RAINBOW CASH
AND NOT TO FORGET,WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO KAT FOR HELPING OUR BEAUTIFUL OVER THE RAINBOW CASH IN A QUEST FOR A GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP IN CONJUNCTION WITH HANDLER LAURA BERGSTRAFFER, AS LAURA BROKE HER BACK IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT MID-SEASON IN 2018 AND KAT VERY GENEROUSLY SHOWED LAURA'S DOGS DURING HER RECOVERY. SEE HIS PAGE.
STUD SUNDANCE
MOREOVER WE ARE SO PLEASED WITH YOUR 2023 HANDING OF SUNDANCE, ALONG WITH YOUR JUNIORS ON STAFF, COMPLETING HIS CHAMPIONSHIP AND STARTING HIM WELL ON HIS WAY TO A GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP. SEE HIS PAGE.
KAT YOU ARE VERY SPECIAL and LOVELY HANDLER.
OUR HORSES
NOTE THAT 2025 PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY IS ALSO HOME TO A TENESSEE WALKER BAY MARE NAMED LADY MOCHA CHOCOLACA AND A BAY MUSTANG WITH WHITE SOCKS AND A WIDE BLAZE GELDING FROM MONTANA NAMED PISTOL. EARLIER WE WERE HOME TO THREE QUARTER HORSES, OVER A 20 PLUS YEAR PERIOD. THE HORSES WE HAD INCLUDED A SORREL MARE NAMED WENDY'S BAR TAB A TRAIL TRIALS CHAMPION, A GELDING STRAWBERRY ROAN NAMED ZIPPO'S BAR CHANT AND A SORREL NAMED ALOHA Mr. ZIPS WHO PROGRESSED WELL IN THE PARELLI LEVELS. WE ALSO HAD A PAINT OVERO GELD NAMED ROCKY HAWK EYE WHO WAS AN OVERALL CHAMPION AT THE COW PALACE IN SF.
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LINDA DALY WAS ACTIVE IN TRAIL TRIALS IN CA AND WON FIRST PLACE WITH ALAMEDA COUNTY TRAIL TRIALS AND 4TH PLACE IN THE STATE SENIOR LEVEL TRAIL TRAILS FOR CALIFORNIA. LINDA DALY WAS PRESIDENT OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY TRAIL TRIALS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA HORSEMAN'S ASSOCIATION. LINDA DALY HAS HAD EXTENSIVE TRAINING IN NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP, DRIVING, TRAIL RIDING AND WESTERN PLEASURE.
Thank You Danielle Frykman for showing Mandoline to WD at the DCA National awarded by James Ham though later rescinded due to an entry error, she still won in a heart stopper event!
Thank you Danielle Fryman foR showing Mandoline to her Championship as follows in 2021:
WB at a Supported entry awarded by Dalmatian Breeder Judge Linda Lewin at the 2021 Western Reserve Dalmatian Specialty weekend in Ohio.
WB at a Specialty Weekend Event awarded by at the 2021 Greater Denver Dalmatian Club.
Best Junior in Sweepstakes at the Amana Twin Cities Dalmatian Specialty awarded by Judge Lila Fast. RWB Awarded By Judge Cheryl Fales Steinmetz at the 2021 Amana Twin Cities Dalmatian Specialty.
WB and AOM at the 2021 Orlando Royal Canine Central Florida Dalmatian Specialty awarded by Judge Charles Olvis.
Owner handled AOM in Longmont,CO.
Furthermore, we thank you Danielle Frykman for showing Mandoline to her Grand Championship in August 2022. See the following awards:
Select at the Greater Delaware Regional Specialty, which was held in conjunction with the 2022 DCA National in Virginia, which was awarded by Breeder Judge Christina Pickup.
An AOM awarded by Judge Thomson Stanfield, 2 BOS awards and a SELECT awarded by Judges Neil T. McDevitt, Mrs. Sulie Greendale Pavera and Mrs. Pamela Peat respectively at the Greeley KC event, during the Greater Denver 2022 Dalmatian Specialty weekend, which completed Mandoline's Grand Championship.
BOS and a Select at the 2022 December Detroit Dalmatian Specialty in Lansing, MI awarded by Ken Murray and Nancy Smith Hafner respectively, while being handled by Danielle Frykman.
And in JULY 2023 a AOM in a Detroit Dalmatian specialty awarded by Judge Brandon Edge.
SUNDANCE HANDLED BY DANIELLE
Also we really cannot thank Danielle enough for training Sundance as a baby and showing Sundance to WD and two BOB his first weekend out in 2023 and WD at a Indy Dalmatian Specialty Supported Event in 2023, a Best Senior in Sweepstakes in the July 2023 Detroit Dalmatian Specialty and Best in Sweepstakes at the 2023 Chicagoland Dalmatian Specialty. See his page.
Danielle, you are a terrific and amazing handler!
OTHER HANDLERS WE WANT TO THANK.
We want to acknowledge and thank Colton and Heather Johnson and their junior handler daughters. They agreed to start Mandoline on her journey toward a Grand Championship in regional shows, where Mandoline acquired Selects and BOS at shows in Denver, Colorado; Scottsbluff, NB; Brighton, Colorado; Laramie, Wyoming; and Longmont, Colorado, with the plan that Danielle Frykman would take over handling Mandoline at the 2022 DCA National and Dalmatian specialties from Greeley forward in the fall of 2022, as she is a Dalmatian specialist. The Johnson's would mostly not be in attendance at specialties for Dalmatians, other than Greeley.
Also, just for the record, Mandoline was owner-handled to a AOM in Longmont, Colorado at a 2022 Greater Denver Dalmatian Club Specialty due to a conflict by the Johnsons. She was later owner handled in Montana at the 2022 Yellowstone KC for several Select Awards. Furthermore, Mandoline was owner handled to second best Dalmatian in the country in 2022 for Fast Cats. She earned two legs in Beginner Novice owner handled in 2022 and trained for 18 months in Agility, before focusing on Conformation at the Johnson's beautiful training facility, and had swimming lessons there for conditioning.
Mandoline was also awarded two Select awards in Supported events in Oaks, PA, associated with the 2022 Greater Delaware Specialty, while showing under Greg Strong.
OTHER DOGS
Greg showed one of our Russel Terriers, AKC CH Rivendell Beau Bentley CAA, who was born 2015 in Canada at Rivendell Kennel to an AKC championship in 2016. He is a tri-color rough coat and is still living. There just were not majors in the western region in that breed, which was new to AKC. Our other Russell Terrier, UKC CH Annabella Xmas Angel CGCA CD BN RI was born in 2012 at Spankys in Grand Junction area and is still living. She is a tan and white broken coat female, whose tail was docked, born 2012. She was owner-handled to a UKC Championship. They are both couch potatoes now.
Thank you Greg!
DANIELLE FRKMAN TRAINED AND SHOWED MANDOLINE TO HER CHAMPIONSHIP AND GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP AND SUNDANCE TO HIS FIRST WD AT A SUPPORTED SPECIALTY EVENT.
THANK YOU
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OTHER 2024 MANDOLINE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Thank you to Junior Handler Zena Cummard for Showing Mandoline in the 2024 Phoenix Dalmatian Specialties to 2 BOSS awarded by Judge Sharon Ann Redmer And Gary
Myers and a BIS for Juniors! Also Great Thanks to her father JR Cummard, a fellow Dal friend for showing Mandoline to a BOS at the 2024 Palm Springs Dalmatian Specialty Show awarded by Joe Walton! You are both just fabulous!
Most recently Kimberly Young showed Mandoline to a CGC! Thank you Kimberly!
NATE
ALL TIME SHOW & MBISS DAL LIST
MBIS MBISS GCHP
DAKOTA INTO THE WOODS.
ROMX
MANDOLINE'S SIRE!
NATE
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DOB 09/16/2014
CHIC# 116348 AKC#
NP37774501
BRED & CO-OWNED BY KRIS BENOIT OF DAKOTA DALMATIANS CO-BREEDER SUE BUSE and OWNER MARK & GINGER IWAOKA OF TAILWIND DALMATIANS
CH SNOWOOD DAKOTA WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR (l) ROMX (
LITTERMATE OF VINCENT, GCH DAKOTA SNOWOOD STARRY STARRY NIGHT
CHIC # 181705
DOB 07/17/2014
AKC # NP37774501
BRED BY MEG HENNESSEY KRISTINE BENOIT DEBORAH SMITH OWNED BY DEBORAH SMITH, MEG HENNESSEY & KRISTINE BENOIT
DAISY, MANDOLINE'S DAM
Kyra
DCA WB,MBISS GCHB Dakota the Closer
Dam of Nate
MANDOLINE'S PATERNAL GRANDSIRE, DIRT! NATE'S SIRE. Mandoline's 3rd Generation Ancestor
OWNED BY SAMANTHA AND LINDA STAFFORD OF ENCHANTED HART DALMATIANS.
DIRT iS ALL TIME MBISS GCHS ENCHANTED HART DOWN AND DIRTY NP32461801(AKC)(N)(L)ROMX.
BRED BY JACQUELYN DELANEY AT VOLUNTEERS DALMATIANS. 2012-2018
DIRT SET A STANDARD FOR TYPE THAT WAS FULLY REALIZED IN HIS SON NATE AND MANY OTHER OFFSPRING, HIS FAMED GRANDSIRE CH ABERDEEN SAWYER BROWN AND GREAT GRANDSIRE, BILBO, CH MADURHASON YAZOO (L),OWNED BY JOHN AND KRISTINE BENOIT OF DAKOTA DALMATIANS AND OFTEN USED BY SNOWOOD DALMATIANS IN CONJUNCTION WITH DAKOTA DALMATIANS.
3rd generation Paternal Great Grandsire of Mandoline is CH Pokatalica Southern Chic Bret D (L) NP12861604 above. Mandoline's Paternal Grand Dam on her Sire's side was Lillie, CH Volunteer’s Enchanted Hart ROMX right.
Sawyer, All Time MBISS list,
MBISS CH Aberdeen Sawyer Brown(L) ROMX is the paternal Great Great Grand Sire and maternal Great Grand Sire of Mandoline and maternal Great Great Great Grand Sire of Mandoline. He is a 4th Generation, 5th and 6th Generation ancestor of Mandoline.
Sawyer is a Common Ancestor of Mandoline, as a fourth generation ancestor. He has been in the pedigree of all the Dals of Ponderosa Sapphire Sky since 2000.
KYRA
DCA WB
MBISS
DAKOTA THE CLOSER
3RD Generation
Mandoline's Paternal Grand Dam.
​NATE'S Dam, Kyra, was sired by Gryffin, CH Spotlight N Dakota Gryffin DOB 03/02/2007. He is Mandoline's 4th generation ancestor and son of MBISS CH Spotlight Scandalous and ALL Time Top Show Dal CH Spotlight Splendid ROM. He is a sibling of the famed Ian, MBIS MBISS GCHP Spotlight Ruffian.
Gryffin was a well- known Sire in his own right. Gryffin is the Sire of CH Dakota's Paradise Alley ROMX paired with CH Dakota's Diagon Alley. He also sired Dakota the Dark Mark, a DCA Futurity Winner, whose dam was Ch Dakota's Secret Keeper(L).
ROMX AWARDED MANDOLINE'S LINE
MANDOLIN'S SIRE NATE, GCHP DAKOTA INTO THE WOODS ROMX
MANDOLINE'S DAM DAISY,CH DAKOTA SNOWOOD WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR ROMX
MANDOLINE'S SIRE NATE HAS A GREAT GRAND SIRE SAWYER, ABERDEEN'S SAWYER BROWN ROMX. SAWYER IS THE SIRE OF MANDOLINE'S GREAT GRAND SIRE, GCH POKATALICA SOUTHERN CHIC BRETT D. SAWYER IS ALSO THE SIRE OF MANDOLINE'S DAM'S SIRE, OZZIE,CH HIGHLAND'S FLYIN HIGH AGAIN. SAWYER IS FURTHERMORE THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE AND GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE ON THE DAM'S SIDE OF MANDOLINE'S SIRE NATE AND DAM'S SIDE OF MANDOLINE, CH ABERDEEN'S TWILIGHT TIME,ROMX. SAWYER IS ALSO THE GRANDSIRE ON THE DAM'S SIDE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE AND GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAM. SAWYER IS THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE. SAWYER IS THE GREAT GREAT GRAND SIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO AND ONE TIME AGAIN FURTHER OUT FOR JERICHO.
MANDOLINE'S SIRE'S GREAT GRAND DAM LILLIE,DIRT'S DAM,IS CH VOLUNTEER'S ENCHANTE HART ROMX.
MANDOLINE'S DAM OF HER SIRE IS CH DAKOTA THE CLOSER ROMX.
MANDOLINE'S GRAND DAM IS CH DAKOTA'S BREAKING DAWN AT SNOWOOD ROMX.
PROSPECTIVE SIRE,DANTE. HIS SIRE,IAN,IS GCHP SPOTLIGHT RUFFIAN ROMX. IAN IS ALSO GRANDSIRE TO PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAM AND GREAT GRANDSIRE TO PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE, AS WELL AS A GREAT GRANDSIRE TO FUTURE POSSIBLE PROSPECTIVE SIRE FRED. IAN'S SIRE, CH SPOTLIGHT SCANDALOUS ROMX IS ANOTHER GENERATION UP FOR NOT ONLY ALL OF THE ABOVE DALMATIANS,BUT MANDOLINE HERSELF, AS THE SIRE OF SPOTLIGHT GRYFFIN, IAN'S BROTHER. GRYFFIN IS THE GREAT GRAND SIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE ON HIS DAM'S SIRE'S SIDE AND MUCH MORE DISTANT ANCESTOR TO PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO ON HIS DAM'S SIDE. IAN IS ALSO THE SIRE OF GRAYSON'S DAM. AND IAN'S PARENTS ARE GRAND SIRE AND DAM ON THE DAM'S SIDE OF GRAYSON. SPOTLIGHT STORM IS THE DAM'S DAM SIRE AND IAN THE NEXT GENERATION UP, ALONG WITH HIS PARENTS BEING TWO GENERATIONS UP ON GRAYSON'S DAM'SSIDE
MBIS
MANDOLINE'S SIRE NATE
PROSPECTIVE SIRE JAMIE'S GRAND SIRE ON HIS DAM'S SIDE IS
MBIS AKC/CAN/MEX CH MADURHASON'S TANFASTIC.
PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAM, GCHG SPOTLIGHT NO FILTER NEEDED AT SPOTLIGHT IS A BIS DALMATIAN.
IAN, GCHP SPOTLIGHT RUFFIAN ROMX IS A BIS DALMATIAN AN IS THE SIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE AND GREAT GRANDSIRE ON HIS DAM'S SIDE. IAN IS THE GREAT GRANDSIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE. IAN IS THE GRANDSIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAM AND ALSO THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAYSON.
CH GREENSTARRS COLNEL JOE IS A BIS AND ALL TIME TOP SHOW DALMATIAN. HE IS THE GRANDSIRE OF FUTURE PROSPECTIVE SIRE FRED.
THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL MBISS WINNER:
MANDOLINE
NATE,MANDOLINE'S SIRE
DIRT,HER SIRE'S GRAND SIRE
KYRA,HER SIRE'S GRAND DAM
SAWYER,HER GREAT GRANDSIRE AND GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE ON HER DAM'S SIDE,AND GREAT GRANDSIRE OF HER SIRE AND GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE ON HER SIRE'S DAM'S SIDE. SAWYER IS ALSO THE GRANDSIRE ON THE DAM'S SIDE OF HER PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE; THE GREAT GREAT GRAND SIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAM; THE GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO AND ONE TIME AGAIN FURTHER OUT AGAIN FOR THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO; AND THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE. HE IS ALSO THE GREAT GRAND SIRE OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE FRED.
MADISON, ST FLORIAN SHE'S GOT GAME DOB 05/29/2015 IS A MBISS AND IS A 2018 TOP 20 PEOPLE'S CHOICE, 2019 TOP 20, DCA BOS IN 2019, 2016 RWB AND BEST JUNIOR IN FUTURITY,6 BISS, MNOHS BIS, 2021 DCA SELECT, 2023 DCA SELECT AND DCA BOB. SHE IS THE GRAND DAM OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE. HER DAM ADELE, CH SAINT FLORIAN LITERATI'S ONE N ONLY IS A MBISS, TOP 20 2 YEARS,2013 DCA BOS, 2012 DCA BEST IN FUTURITY, SWEEPSTAKES AND RWB, BOS AT THE 2014 EUKANUBA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, 2014 #4 OWNER HANDLED, #13 BREED AND #14 ALL BREED.
FURY IS A MBISS AND IS #5 DALMATIAN IN 2018 AND 2019 AND ON THE ALL TIME TOP SHOW DAL LIST. SHE IS THE DAM OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE.
CH SPOTLIGHT SCANDALOUS THE SIRE OF IAN AND GRYFFIN AND IS A MBISS WINNER.CH SPOTLIGHT SPLENDID US AN ALL TIME TOP SHOW DALMATIAN AND THE GRAND DAM OF IAN AND GRYFFIN. GRYFFIN IS MANDOLINE'S GREAT GRAND SIRE,PROSPECTIVE SIRE SUNDANCE'S GREAT GRAND SIRE AND PROSPECTVE SIRE'S JERICHO'S GREAT GRANDSIRE. SPOTLIGHT SCANDALOUS IS ANOTHER GENERATION UP FOR EACH OF THE ABOVE.
DAKOTA'S DIAGON ALLEY IS AN ALL TIME DALMATIAN SHOW DALMATAN AND A GRANDSIRE OF PROSPETUVE SIRE JERICHO AND SUNDANCE.
MANDOLINE'S 6TH GENERATION CH ROADPARTNERS BILLIE HOLIDAY IS A MBISS WINNER.
PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE'S GREAT GRAND DAM,GINGER, CH SUNNYOAKS SPICEN IT UP ROMX AND MATERNAL GREAT GREAT GRAND SIRE RICKY,CH SUNNYOAKS READY TO RUMBLE ARE MBISS WINNERS. NOTE THESE SAME DALMATIANS ARE THE PATERNAL SIRE AND MATERNAL GRAND DAM OF GRAYSON.
FUTURE PROSPECTIVE SIRE CH GREENSTARR'S COLONEL JOE IS AN ALL TIME TOP SHOW DALAND MBISS WINNER. HE IS A MATERNAL GRANDSIRE OF FRED.
DISTANT ANCESTORS OF MANDOLINE WITH AN ROMX INCLUDE CH TUCKAWAY AUGUSTA ROMX,CH FIREMAN'S FRECKLED FRIEND ROMX, COUNT MIGUEL OF TUCKAWAY ROMX, CH PRINCE HARTS ROMX AND CH PANORE OF WASEKA, TUCKAWAY WINGED FOOT, CH LORD JIM, CH COACHMAN'S CHUCK-A-LUCK ALL TIME SHOW DALMATIAN.
PROSPECTIE SIRE GRAYSON SIRE WAS RICKY, GCH SUNNYOAKS READY TO RUMBA (l) DOB 05/12/06 WHO WAS A BEST JUNIOR IN FUTURITY AT DCA IN 2007 BOS AT 2009 DCA AND DCA AOM IN 2011. HE WAS A TOP 20 3 TIMES, #11 VETERAN AND #11 OWNER HANDLED DALMATIAN.
SUNNYOAKS'S READY TO RUMBA'S DAM, GRAYSON'S GRAND DAM ON HIS SIRE'S SIDE WAS GINGER, CH SUNNYOAKS SPICEN' IT UP ROMX DOB 03/29/2002 WHO WAS WINNER OF THE 2004 TOP 20, BEST OF WINNERS AT THE 2003 NATIONAL, 2005 AOM RECIPIENT, MULTIPLE BISS AND GROUP WINNER, ON THE ALL TIME MBISS LIST AND #3 DAL AND #1 BITCH IN 2004 AND 2005.
IAN,SPOTLIGHT RUFFIAN ROMX WAS WINNER OF THE 2010 TOP 20, MBIS, MBISS3 X BREED WINNER AT WESTMINSTER,AND A WESTMINSTER GROUP 1. DCA BOB 2013. SELECT 2011 AND 2012 BEST IN FUTURITY IN 2008.
MANDOLINE'S PROSPECTIVE SIRE JAMIE IS MADURHASON'S IN THE CATBIRD SEAT ROM,AND HIS IS
DAM, GREAT PATERNAL GRAND SIRE AND
GREAT PATERNAL GRAND DAM EACH HAVE AN ROMX.
VINCENT THE SIRE OF THE PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO ALSO HAS A ROMX.
CH ROADPARTNER BILLIE HOLIDAY ROMX IS A SIXTH GENERATION ANCESTOR OF MANDOLINE WITH AN ROMX.
ST. FLORIAN SHE'S GOT GAME ROMX IS A MATERNAL GRAND DAM OF DANTE AND HAS AN ROMX.
FRED GRANDSIRE GREENSTARR'S COLONEL JOE HAS AN ROMX.
CH SPOTLIGHT SPLENDID ROMX THE DAM OF GRYFFIN AND IAN HAS AN ROMX AND APPEARS AS MANDOLINE'S GREAT GREAT GRAND DAM,PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE'S GRAND DAM; PROSPECTIVE SIRE'S GRAM'S GREAT GRANDDAM;PROSPECTIVE SIRE'S SUNDANCES'S GREAT GREAT GRANDDAM;PROSPECTIVE SIRE'S FRED'S GREAT GREAT GRAND DAM AND PROSPECTIVE SIRE'S JERICHO'S GREAT GRAND DAM AND GREAT GREAT GRAND DAM.
CH PATCHMT KELLY SUNSHINE ROMX IS A MATERNAL GREAT GRAND DAM OF SUNDANCE WITH AN ROMX.
CH PAISLEY PATCH MTS. AMAZING GRACE ROMX IS A MATERNAL gREAT GRAND DAM OF SUNDANCE WITH AN ROMX.
GCG DAKOTA PRESTIGE TAKE ME HOME (L) CGC ROMX IS A MATERNAL GREAT GRANDDAM OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE JERICHO WITH AN ROMX.
GCH CRANBROOKE BACK TO THR FUTURE AND CH CRANBROOKE BACK TO THE FUTURE ARE GREAT GRAND SIRE AND GREAT GREAT GRAND SIRE RESPECTIVELY OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE DANTE.
CH SUNNYOAKS SPINCEN IT UP ROMX IS A GRAND DAM OF PROSPECTIVE SIRE GRAYSON WITH AN ROMX. HIS PATERNAL GREAT GRANDPARENTS INCLUDE ON HIS SIRE'S SIDE CH TUCKAWAY WINGED FOOT ROMX. HIS GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS ON HIS SIRE'S SIDE INCLUDE CH TUCKAWAY AUGUSTA ROMX AND CH TUCKAWAWAY HAVANIP ROMX AND ON HI SIREE'S DAM SIDE CH SUMMERHILL BRAVEHEART ROM. ON HIS DAM'S SIDE HIS GREAT GRANDSIRE IS CH SATIN'S CLOWN'N AROUND CDX CGC ROMX. HIS GRAND DAM IS SUNNYOAKS SPICEN' IT UP, ROMX.
DISTANT ANCESTORS OF MANDOLINE WITH AN ROMX INCLUDE CH TUCKAWAY ROMX,CH FIREMAN'S FRECKLED FREIND ROMX, COUNT MIGUEL OF TUCKAWAY ROMX, CH PRINCE HARTS ROMX AND CH CHUCK-A-LUCK ROMX AND CH MADURHASON'S HAREWOOD HOUSE ROMX.
CH Highland's Flying High Again, NP8632501 (AKC) (N) Mar 29 2000. Mandoline's maternal Grand Sire, 3RD generation.
Sired by Ch Aberdeen's Sawyer Brown ROMX (L), Mandoline's fourth generation ancestor.
Mandoline's 3rd generation maternal Grand Dam, Ch Dakota's Breaking Dawn at Snowood (L) ROMX NP24034004 (AKC) (N) 08/05/2009.
Sired by Bilbo, CH Madurhason's Yazoo(L)NM24839504(AKC) paired with Dam CH Aberdeen's Twilight Time. 4th Generation.
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CH Highland's Warrior Princess, Mandoline's maternal Sire's Dam, 4th Generation ancestor was paired with CH Aberdeen Sawyer Brown(L)ROMX to produce CH Highland's Flying High Again.
Ch Highland's Warrior Princess was sired by the Benoit's first Dalmatian, Ch Madurhason's Opening Night. He was in Mandoline's 5th Generation and was sired by Ch Fireman's Freckled Friend 11/20/ 1981 22.99 in 60 lb. paired with Madurhason's Amy Lowell (L) 07/12/1988 in Mandoline's 6th generation.
Amy and CH e.e. cummings were both sired by Mandoline's Jamie's Great Grand Sire AKC/CAN Ch Bay Colony Poet Laureate (L) 03/15/1982 and Jamie's Great Grand Dam Ch MGR and Patz Pajamas. Note Mandoline is also distantl related to all of these Dalmatians.
AERIN, CH Dakota' The Secret Keeper (L)
DAM OF KYRA
Paired with Gryffin(Ian's sibling)
Mandoline's Fourth Generation Ancestor
Mandoline's Sire's Great Grand Dam
Littermate of Mandoline's maternal Grand Dam,
CH Dakota's Breaking Dawn at Snowood ROMX
Daughter of BILBO, Ch Madurhason Yazoo (L) and
TWILA, CH Aberdeen's Twilight Time
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BREEDING NOTIONS
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MOST POTENCY OF GENES IS IN THE FIRST 3 GENERATIONS
COMMON ANCESTOR 3TH TO 4TH GENERATION
OUTCROSS NO SAME ANCESORS BEFORE 4TH OR 5TH GENERATION
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BRACKETT FORMULA: LET THE SIRE OF THE SIRE BE THE GRANDSIRE OF THE DAM.
50, 25, 12.5, 6.3, 3.1, 1.6--1ST 6 GENERATIONS
REPITION COUNTS
EACH SEX BRINGS SAME AMOUNT OF GENES
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EXTRA GENERATION REDUCES POTENCY ADVANCED AGE REDUCES POTENCY ADVANCED AGE REDUCES NUMBER OF OFFSPRING
SOMETIMES ANCESTOR GENES APPEAR GENERATIONS LATER
SIBLINGS ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME
BILBO, CH MADUR9l0HASON YAZOO (L)
HALF SIBLING OF MANDOLINE'S PROSPECTIVE MATE Jamie
BOTH WERE SIRED BY CH MADURHASON e.e. cummings (L)
BILBO APPEARS IN MANDOLINE'S 4TH, 5TH AND 6TH GENERATION
FIRST THREE GRAND PARENTS OF BILBO MATCH THOSE OF MANDOLINE'S PROSPECTIVE MATE BUT NOT THE MATERNAL GRAND DAM.
CH BAY COLONY POET LAUREATE (L)
PATERNAL GRAND SIRE
CH MGR PATZ PAJAMAS
PATERNAL GRAND DAM
AKC/CAN/MEX
CH MADURHASON'S TANFASTIC (L)
MATERNAL GRAND SIRE
MADURHASON'S THE BREAKERS
MATERNAL GRANDDAM
JAMIE'S THIRD GENERATION ANCESTORS WERE HIS GRAND SIRE AKC CAN CH BAY COLONY POET LAUREATE (L) PAIRED WITH CH MGR AND PATZ PAJAMAS AND HIS DAM'S SIRE MBIS AKC CAN INT MEX CH MADURHASON TANFASTIC (L) PAIRED WITH LIMESTONE WINGED VICTORY.
NOTE THAT CH MADURHASON TANFASTIC (L) WAS SIRE OF CH MADURHASON'S HAREWOOD HOUSE ROMX (JAMIE'S DAM), CH MADURHASON EDINBURGH (BILBO'S DAM) AND
CH MADURHASON'S ABERDEEN (GRAND SIRE ON DAM'S SIDE OF SAWYER.
DID NOT TAKE SO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. PUPPIES WERE HOPED FOR IN MAY 2025 WITH JAMIE, CH MADURHASON IN THE CATBIRD SEAT (L)
ROM (Eddie, CH MADURHASON'S e. e. cummngs (L) X CH MADURHASON'S HAREWOOD HOUSE ROMX)
JAMIE'S 4TH GENERATION ANCESTORS WERE COACHMAN'S CUP O'LUCK PAIRED WITH DYMONDEE'S CAMEO;CH KARASTELLA CADILLAC OF MGR ROMX PAIRED WITH CH LIMESTONE'S CRESCENDO (L)ROMX;CH MADURHASON'S DOTTED DAPHNE PAIRED WITH CLASSIC LIMESTONE CAMELOT;AND AKC CAN BRAZ CH LIMESTONE VALKYRIE.
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Given that the Frozen Semen mating with Jamie did not result in puppies, Kristine Benoit, Meg Hennessey and Linda Daly are now looking for our maiden Mandoline to be mated with young sires, or very potent ones, with live matings, or fresh semen. We want to compliment her type and build genetic strengths. Fred is in TN and too young to be bred. Sundance could be a young live Sire on the premises, however he has Storm as his Grand Sire, both Gryffin and Ian as Great Grand Sires and their parents as Great Great Grandparents. Mandoline has Gryffin as a Great Grand Sire and his parents as Great Great Grandparents. Dirt is also a Great Grand Sire for Sundance and a Grand Sire for Mandoline. These overlays may be too much to consider at this time.
The co-breeders I know have considered Grayson and Gram, in addition to Dante as Sire possibilities and want to consider additional possibilities at the National before making a final decision. Grayson was born in 2017 and is in North Carolina. Gram is the same age as Mandoline and is in California. Likely fresh chilled semen would be used. However I could drive Mandoline to those locations.
Grayson and Dante each have a strong maternal grandparent outcross as strengths.
Gram has no strong outcross but he has his own strength as #1 Dal of 2024 in Breed and All Breed Statistics.
A great favorite is Dante. His Sire was Ian, (2013 DCA BOB, 2010 Top 20 Winner, 3 x Winner at Westminster, 11 BIS, 14 BOSS 2008 Best Senior in Futurity) bred by Kristine Benoit, Barbara Lyons and Dawn Mauel. Sawyer was his maternal Grand Sire (ROMX and MBISS DCA list). Madison was his Grand Dam, GCHG St Florian’s Got Game (Winner of 2018 Top 20 Peoples Choice and 2019 Top 20,DCA BOS, 2016 DCA Best Junior in Futurity, ROMX and MBISS DCA list). Dante's maternal Great Grand Dam was Adele, CH SAINT FLORIAN LITERATI'S ONE N ONLY(two time Top 20 nominee, a 2014 BOS at the Eukanuba National Championship,2014 #4 NOHS, 2014 #13 Breed and # 14 All Breed, 2013 DCA BOS and 2012 Best in Futurity, Sweepstakes and RWB). Dante's maternal Grand Sire was Sawyer, who is on the DCA MBISS list. Dante's paternal Grand Sire was Spotlight Scandalous, who is on the DCA MBISS list. Dante's paternal Grand Dam was Spotlight Splendid, who is on the DCA All Time Top Dalmatian list. Dante won the 2024 12-15 month old dog class at the 2024 DCA National. He has since gotten his GCH.
Grayson was 2018 DCA RWD. He is a proven sire with a Grand Championship. He sired the WB and Best of Winners at the 2024 DCA with a Prestige Dog, Prestige and Westviews Take a Look at Me Now and has 6 offspring who are champions. He and Sunnyoaks Buzzer Beater were shown as a matched pair in 2024 DCA and are siblings born separate years. Grayson may be a good match for Mandoline (if available). His Sire was Ricky (3 x Top 20 nominee,3x BISS, # 11 Veteran and #1 Owner handled in 2014 ). His paternal Great Grand Sire was Jack, CH Tuckaway Winged Foot CGC ROMX (1996, 1998 TOP 20 Winner, 1999 DCA BOB, All Time DCA Top 20 list and DCA MBISS list). Grayson's paternal Grand Dam and also his Great Grand Dam was Ginger (Best of Winners 2003 and 2005 AOM, Winner of 2014 Top 20, 2005 #1 Female and #3 Dalmatian). Grayson's maternal Grand Sire was Ian (2013 DCA BOB, 2010 Top 20 Winner, 3 x Winner at Westminster, 11 BIS, 14 BOSS 2008 Best Senior in Futurity). Grayson's maternal Great Grand Sire, Spotlight Scandalous is on the DCA MBISS list. Grayson's Great Grand Dam, Spotlight Splendid is on the DCA All Time Top Dalmatian list. Grayson's paternal Great Grand Sire was CH Satin's Clown'n Around CDX CHC ROMX. I like Ricky very much as well for a frozen semen breeding perhaps with a dua sire of Grayson. Ricky is not only a beautiful liver inis own right who has sired some very nice Dals. He offers more outcross and diversity without as much genetic risks.
Gram is the 2024 Best Dalmatian born 2020.​ Gram is a proven sire. Gram is on the DCA Top Dalmatian list. He is a Grand Son of Ian #1 on the DCA Top Dalmatian list in 2014. He is a Great Grand Son of Spotlight Scandalous, who is on the MBISS DCA list. He is a Great Grand Son of his Great Grand Dam, Spotlight Splendid, who is on the DCA Top Dalmatian list. Gram's maternal Grand Sire, Dirt is on the DCA MBISS list. Gram is the sire of Futurity and Sweepstakes juniors/seniors and DCA WD, class winners and other class awards. ​
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A more recent strong consideration I am thinking of for a future year and will continue to evaluate exists with Princeton, CH BISS MBPIS Brookfields Renaissance Man at Mainways (Crew x Paris), born in Canada 12/11/22 and residing in New Hampshire. He has great lines of an outcross breeding. His Dam, BIS BISS RBIS OHBIS CKC GCHB Hallmarks Shantay You Stay has a very strong show history herself and her sire is the famed GCHP2 Hallmarks Turbo Charged Lexus, who just recently passed, 2010-2025. The sire's family is not as well-known but he has a good show record, MBISS MBPIS CKC Sidecar Mainways Walk Like A Man. He has a match with Ozzie in Mandoline's 3rd generation and his 4th and Aberdeen Sawyer Brown in her 4th generation and his 5th. There is also an up-and-coming boy named London out of Paris and frozen semen of Kastle Go Speed Racer to watch for born late 2023, as well as a large litter born in 2024, including boys named Parcival, Voltaire, Banderas and Cardenta. They would potentialy bring a lot to the table for a live breeding or fresh chilled of young sires, assuming that they have good health histories. Princeton has a very nice show history already and his sire offers some fourth generation line breeding to Mandoline, as well as the srength of being largely an outcross breeding. Princeton's littermate Marmelaide has also done exremely well in the show ring.​​
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Yet another strong contender is Tramac and Treasure in the Spotlite aka Bob or his half sibling Tramac and Treasure a Star in Bjorn. Both are Black and White, one born 2021 and the other 2024. The older one is a proven sire and BIS and MBISS winner, while the younger one will be coming out at the national and would not be old enough until 2026 and will have to be OFA tested. The older one has been OFA tested. Both are sired by Eddie who was the sire of a litter with Mandoline's sister Isla. The Dam of the younger one is Lilian, a very famous Dalmatian who has won many awards. The dam of the older Dalmatian is also a well-known Dalmatian in her own right. I like both for giving another generation between Mandoline and Spotlight Storm Chaser, who was positive for Thyroidoisis,as he was the Grandsire of Eddie and a Great Grandsire, if one of those two dogs were used with Mandoline.
Generational overlays are a consideration. 3/4 for Dante and Mandoline through Sawyer. 2/4 for Dante and Mandoline through siblings Ian and Gryffin and 3/5 for Dante and Mandoline through Ian and Griffin's parents. 3/3 for Gram and Mandoline through Dirt. 3/4 for Grayson and Mandoline,as well as Gram and Mandoline through siblings Ian and Gryffin. 4/5 for Grayson and Mandoline, as well as Gram and Mandoline through the parents of Ian and Gryffin. 4/3 for Princeton and Mandoline with Ozzie and 4/5 with Sawyer. 3/4 for Mandoline and dir with the Tramac lines and Dirt.
Dante
GCH Dakota N Quiksilver Ready for Prime Time
NP85101401
DOB 05/02/2023
(GCHP CH Spotlight Ruffian – CH St Last Straw @ Tailwind SWNE SWE SCAE SCM.)
Breeders Kristine Benoit, Barbara Lyons and Dawn Mauel.
Owners: Kristine Benoit and Barbara and James Lyons.
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Grayson
GCH Sunnyoaks Nothing But Net
NP47563902
08/13/2017
(CH Sunnyoaks Ready to Rumba 2013 x Ch Sunnyoaks Said and Done)
Owners: Michelle Wrath
Breeders: Michelle Wrath
Gram
GCHG Spotlight No Filter Needed at Amethyst
NP 59436119
DOB 03/19/2020
(GCH Spotlight’s Storm Chaser x GCH Spotlight Adora Bella.)
Breeder Connie M. Wagoner.
Owners: Dr. Cassidy Jackson and Maggie Jackson.
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GCHP CH Spotlight Ruffian – CH St Last Straw @ Tailwind SWNE SWE SCAE SCM.Â
NAME DREAMING
ULTRASOUND SCHEDULED APRIL 3RD,2025 Mandoline is not pregnant.
BRED 03-06/2025
Progesterone at 16.9
SPERM THAWED AT 45%
5 STRAWS.
IN SEASON
02/21/2025
08/13/2024 02/05/2024
ISABELLE
DAKOTA SNOWOOD & SAPPHIRES'LEGENDARY SECRET NIGHTENGALE
HENRI
DAKOTA SNOWOOD & SAPPHIRES' TIGER TIGER BURNING BRIGHT
MARISOL
SAPPHIRE'S SECRET SUN DRENCHED SEA
LEON/ ARIELLA
AMETHYST SAPPHIRE & DAKOTAS' HEART OF A LION
Lionhart
Hummingbird's Waltz in the Secret Sapphire Wind
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright Secret Sapphire Dream
Nightengales Secret Sapphire Song
Camille/Kamee
Thoughts on family and generations of ancestors reflecting genetics.
My father's family descended from Mayflower ancestors from England, settling later in both the USA and Canada. I count Ralph Waldo Emerson among our ancestors. Emerson was from a line of 7 Generations from the Mayflower arrival in Plymouth, MA, starting with our mutual ancestors Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland. Their children included their daughter Hope Howland and a number of other siblings.
Hope married John Chipman. Lydia Chipman (1654)-1730) (Daughter of John Chipman (1699-1756 and Mary Skiffe) and Handley Chipman (1717-1799)-(Son of John Chipman (1669-1756) and Elizabeth Handley) were grandchildren of Hope and John Chipman, along with nine other children, and at that point the line split, as to the connection with Emerson. Lydia Chipman was Emerson's Great Great Great Grandmother. Her daughter, Lydia Sargent was Emerson's Great Great Grandmother. Lydia Sargeant's daughter, Emerson's Great Grandmother, was Hannah Waite. Hannah Waite's daughter was Emerson's Grandmother Hannah Upham. Hannah Upham's daughter Ruth Haskins was Emerson's mother. So my family ancestor Handley Chipman and Emerson were separated by 5 generations.
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Hope's grandson Handley Chipman, relocated my ancestors from the United States to Nova Scotia from that line with Jane Allen in 1760. He was a judge and farmer. Other family members stayed in the United States. A son named Jabez Howland of the Mayflower ancestors built the Howland House in Plymouth, MA and Elizabeth Tilley spent her older years there. I visited it and it gave me goosebumps to think Elizabeth Tilley lived there. The home stands today as a museum and source of information about our Mayflower ancestors. Handley Chipman was given a large land grant in Nova Scotia by the English government. Their son John Chipman and Eunice Dixon married and had Daniel Chipman, 1782. Daniel Chipman married Sarah Bishop. Their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Chipman, 1808, married William Odber Smith, a pharmacist who came from a line of doctors. Sarah's daughter Ella Victoria Smith, 1837,was one of six children and had five half-siblings. She married Frederick Billings Miles and they were my Great Great Grandparents. They moved from Canada in 1900 to the United States.
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My Great Great Grandparent's, Ella Victoria Smith Miles, 1837-1904, and Frederick Billings Miles, 1833-1891, had nine children. Frederick Billings Miles had a partnership with the head of Armor Beef and described himself as a capitalist. He was involved in a lot of different businesses over the years and got into some financial and potential legal difficulties at one point, which he eventually recovered from.
The sixth child of Ella Victoria Smith Miles and Frederick Billings Miles was Herbert Delahaye Miles,1866-1958. He lived the longest of his siblings, dying at 91. He and my grand father both were executives with Armor beef. Herbert wrote poetry, including one about a family oral story of the Mayflower history. He was in charge of the ancestry records in North Carolina and owned the historic Miles building in Asheville. He transformed the Italianate space in 1925 from a men's club to a stylish office and retail setting. It is now known not just as the Historic Miles building but the Asheville Grove Arcade, which I have visited. It has a very impressive collection of upscale stores with gorgeous architecture. Pictures of my Great Grand Father, my Great Grand Uncle Herbert, my paternal Grand Father and my oldest son Jesse are absolutely uncanny in resemblance. I do not really have information regarding Great Uncle Herbert's children and their descendants but I do know he was married and had children.
The youngest child in the family of Ella Victoria Smith Miles and Frederick Billings Miles was Reginald Odber Miles, 1881-1929, who married Josephine Lackner a daughter of a physician and she was a graduate of the University of Chicago. Their daughter Josephine Miles, 1911-1971, was the first woman Tenured Professor on the staff of the English department at Berkeley and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for poetry. Of her siblings, her brother John Miles, 1915-2003, was a writer and follower of Henry David Thoreau. Another brother Richard Billing Miles, 1913-2003, graduated from Stanford University and was Vice President of a Real Estate Bank.
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The second oldest child of Ella Victoria Smith Miles and Frederick Billings Miles was my paternal Great Grandfather, Francis Frederick Miles, 1859-1900. He died early of Tuberculosis. He was an executive at Armor Beef, who bought a lot of shares of Stanford Oil that put his children with Ada Harte through college. Now we are talking four generations ago. He and his wife had eight children two of whom died in childhood. The other children included my Grand Father Frank Harry Miles, aka Dop, 1896-1968, the 8th child of nine children; a sister who studied French at the University of Illinois; a sister who obtained a master's degree in art at the Art Institute of Chicago; a sister who taught college Home Economics classes and was educated at Columbia University and schools in Canada; and a nurse. My grandfather and another brother were in sales. The husbands of my Great Grandfather's sisters were educated at a number of well-known colleges. Their professions included a doctor and minister, a chemical patent attorney, and a Plant Pathologist Ph.D. The latter's son followed in his father's footsteps also completing a doctorate in Plant Pathology and becoming a university professor. The oldest child in the family was Marion, 1884-1962, who was the nurse. She married Charles Belfry Kelly, a doctor and they were Chinese missionaries. They collected some art work in China and I was later willed from my paternal grandfather, two landscape ink paintings on silk that the Kelly's acquired in China. Their son, like his cousin acquired a doctorate in plant pathology and became a university professor and both men and their families were located in Kansas at different points in time and were regular visitors of our family, during those time periods. ​
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Frank and Florence had my father Frank Elliott Miles in 1927 and he died in 2006. As I mentioned before, he was a farmer. My mother was a nurse. My father was unusual at the time in that he was a college-educated farmer, who studied agriculture the University of Missouri and did not inherit his farm. His brother Alan was educated at the University of Arkansas in architecture. Uncle Alan taught architecture at UCLA and before that the University of Colorado and University of Kansas. He also was gifted in ceramics. He opened a ceramic glazing business in southern California. His family often visited our family during the time he taught at KU and all the children went on to have successful careers in the business world.
My sister Amy's youngest daughter Sally is an architect in Hawaii. She has a master's degree from Kansas State University and is a partner in an architectural firm. Business, agriculture, computers and engineering have been the other professions of my siblings and their children. My passions are people, the arts and animals, and my kids seem to have passions for animals/nature/visual arts, or musical arts.
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My Great Great Grandfather in Nova Scotia, the father of Reginald had Parkinson's and so did my father. By the way my father also looked a great deal like Reginald's father, FB Miles. They have strikingly similar golden brown eyes. Josephine Miles had severe arthritis and was in a wheelchair from age two forward. One my first cousins was in a wheelchair for the same condition by the time she was 20, my father's brother Alan's child, Ellen Miles. My father had six children and his brother seven children. My parents had ten grandchildren and ten genetically related great grandchildren. and two much loved adopted ones. No one else ended up in a wheelchair or have turned up with Parkinson's disease.
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I have strong eyebrows that look like those of Emerson, along with our Hollywood Baldwin Mayflower cousins. My siblings, father, paternal grandfather, and great grandfather all have the eyebrows. I can see the eyebrows in an image online of Emerson's mother and of course my relationship to Emerson was through his maternal line. A type seems formed with the eyebrows, just as we look for type in dogs.
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There is still a lot of mystery in genetics. No Dal is perfect and neither are we. It appears that there are approximately 11 generations between myself and the Mayflower and most of those ancestors lived very long lives.
My two youngest grandsons are by the way are registered Native Americans through their mother and therefore have an even older ancestry than the Mayflower in America. Americans are all immigrants. Even our AKC Dals.
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OVER THE RAINBOW
PATCH PET DAL
1ST MALE DAL
JONES PUPPY #5, PET QUALITY ABERDEEN'S APACHE TEARS 2000-2012
DAM BRED & OWNED BY DENISE POWEL
JOHN & KRIS BENOIT OWNERS OF SAWYER, BRED BY DENISE POWELL.
HE WAS BY SAWYER,MBISS CH ABERDEEN'S SAWYER BROWN (L)ROMX X [OUR MANDOLINE'S NAMESAKE] MANDY, CH ABERDEEN'S LADY MANDOLINE
MANDOLINE ON HER 6TH GENERATION DAM' S SIDE HAS as an Ancestor, CH ABERDEEN'S MAGIC FLUTE, A FEMALE LITTERMATE OF CH LADY MANDOLINE.
HISTORY OF PET DALMATIANS AT PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY.
LINDA DALY'S PARENTS AND GRAND PARENTS HAD DALMATIANS STARTING 70 YEARS AGO!
PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY STARTED IN 1986 WITH PET DALMATIAN,
NICOLE OF ARAPAHOE.
NICKY WAS FROM QUAKER ACRE LINES.
AFTER NICOLE WAS OVER THE RAINBOW, WE ACQUIRED FROM DENISE POWELL AT ABERDEEN'S DALMATIAN,ABERDEEN'S APACHE TEARS.
TWO YEAR'S LATER,WE ALSO GOT FROM DENISE POWELL,PET QUALITY ABERDEEN'S FRANCESCA TEARS (CH FIRE BUSTER'S COMIC RELIEF ROMX X MANDY, CH ABERDEEN'S LADY MANDOLINE) 2002-2014 IMAGES COMING.
Linda(Elizabeth)Daly nee Miles as a child with brothers Peter and John and our Dal Debbie. We also had a Dal named April. Our parents Frank and Ellen Miles raised several litters of Dalmatians. Sadie and Beau were Liver Dalmatians at our paternal Grandparents and were given to them by my father, as puppies of Debbie.
OUR SENIOR PERFORMANCE GIRL!
LILY
CH MONUMENTAL ALWAYS TIE ROCKSTAR AT PONDEROSA SKY CGCA CAX FCAT RI BN VA. DOB 09/23/2014
BRED BY TANA AND BJ RUGG.
OWNED BY LINDA DALY AND TANA RUGG.
HANDLED BY TANA RUGG AND KAREN BENENATI.
​SHOW DAL HISTORY AT PONDEROSA
SAPPHIRE SKY STARTED 2014.
OUR IDEA OF GREAT TYPE!
LITTERMATE OF OUR LILY AT MONUMENTAL DALMATIANS,SAVVY.
A GCHS OWNER HANDLED ONLY DOG BRED TO NATE PRODUCING 2 TOP 20 DALS, A DCA AOM GRAND DAUGHTER AND ANOTHER TOP 20 GRANDDAUGHTER!
THE GRANDKIDS INCLUDE TWO BIS AND MBISS SHOW WINNERS.
MONUMENTAL DALMATIANS HAVE HAD PERFORMANCE TITLES IN DCA TRACKING, COMPANION, RUNNING AND THERAPY DOG EVENTS.
OUR OVER THE RAINBOW CASH AS A YOUNGSTER!
GCH MONUMENTAL ALWAYS THE ROCKSTAR AT PONDEROSA SKY HANDLED BY KAREN BENEATI TO HIS CHAMPIONSHIP AND COLTON JOHNSON, LAURA BERGSTRAFFER AND KAT WALLIS TO HIS GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP.
CASH WAS LILY'S LITTERMATE.
2014-2021
DISTANT ANCESTOR WAS MBISS CH ABERDEEN SAWYER BROWN.
STUD ACCESS AT PONDEROSA SAPPHIRE SKY AS CO-OWNER --PROSPECTIVE SIRE OF OUR DAM AND/OR FUTURE DAMS.
VERY DARK AND CORRECT WITH A
BEAUTIFUL FACE & MOVEMENT.
ALSO HAS A BEAUTIFUL LIIVER LITTERMATE MALE. THEIR FEMALE SISTER DOVE FINISHED HER CHAMPIONSHIP FROM BRED BY CLASSES IN 2024!!
FRED,
ENCHANTED HART &
GREEN STARR'S HOLD THE PHONE (DIRT, MBISS GCHS ENCHANTED HART DOWN N DIRTY (L) ROMX X
CH ENCHANTED HART & GREEN STARR'S JAM UP & JELLY TIGHT.) 04/29/2024
BREEDERS AND OWNERS ADA LUTRELL
SAMANTHA STAFFORD
LINDA STAFFORD
& CO-OWNER LINDA DALY.
LITTER OF DAM WAS SIRED BY LAST FROZEN SEMEN OF TOP SHOW DALMATIAN MBIS MBISS CH GREEN STARR'S COLONEL JOE ROMX, AN
OUTCROSS FOR
MANDOLINE AND
FRED.
MANDOLINE & FRED MATCH WOULD FIT BRAKET FORMULA, AS DIRT IS THE SIRE OF FRED AND GRANDSIRE OF MANDOLINE.
COMMON ANCESTORS 3RD AMD 4TH GENERATION OF MANDOLINE AND FRED ARE MBISS CH ABERDEEN SAWYER BROWN ROMX and BILBO, CH MADURHASON/S YAZOO.
OUR NEWEST
ADDITION!
​GRANDDAM
CH
SPOTLIGHT N QUIKSILVER'S SEXY AND I KNOW IT X DIRT, MBISS GCHS ENCHANTED HART DOWN N DIRTY (l) ROMX.
FRED 11 MONTHS
LOOK AT THE OUTLINE!
NO SHORTAGE ON SPOTS!
MODERATE SIZE
NICE TEMPERMENT
SUNDANCE IS OUR HANDSOME GUY! HE IS A PLAYFUL SNUGGLER AND WANTS TO PLEASE.
COMMON ANCESTOR FIRST 4 GENERATIONS MANDOLINE AND SUNDANCE, MBISS CH ABERDEEN'S SAWYER BROWN AND GRYFIN, CH SPOTLIGHT N DAKOTA GRYFIN.
STUD AT PONDEROSA SAPPHIE SKY, FROZEN FRESH AND NATURAL
GCH CARRIAGEHILL'S SUNDANCE KID, DOB 7/4/22
(GRAM, ALL SYSTEMS 1 2024. 2025 WESTMINSTER
BOB. MBIS MBISS GCHG AMETHYST NO FILTER NEEDED AT AMETHYST X #5 ALL SYSTEMS 2018 AND 2019 2018 NATIONAL DOG SHOW WINNER MBIS MBISS GCHP CARRIAGEHILL'S MAKE WAY FOR THE FURIOUS). BRED BY AMBER SPRADLIN AND OWNED BY LINDA DALY & AMBER SPRADLIN. MANY VERY SUCCESSFUL HALF SIBLNGS.
CHIC # SEE OFA GREAT BONE AND EXPRESSION
23 1/2 INCHES, 68 LBS, DARK BROWN EYES, BEAUTIFUL MOVER, GOOD TEMPERAMENT.
NEGATIVE THYROID TESTING HAS BEEN RECEIVED AT VET AFTER INITIAL EQUIVOCAl, NEG CARDIAC, GOOD HIPS AND ELBOWS, BI[LATERAL HEARING, NORMAL EYES.
SHOW RECORD
2025 April 19th SELECT AT CLARKSVILLE KC AWARDED BY JUDGE ROBERT R FROST, 2 POINTS, SHOWN BY SAMANTHA STAFFORD.
2025 SELECTS AT HARRISBURG KC AND MASON & DIXON KENNEL CLUB, INC.AWARDED BY JUDGES JOHN SCHOENEMAN AND MRS. JUDITH A. BROWN WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFFORD.
2025 SELECT AT AN INDY SUPPORTED EVENT AWARDED BY WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFFORD.
2024 FINISHED GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP
SELECT AT THE GREATER DENVER DALMATIAN CLUB SPECIALTY WEEKEND AWARDED BY JUDGE JOE WALTON WITH HANDLER DIANA WILSON.
2024 2 BOB & A GROUP 2 AT THE WICHITA KC EVENT AWARDED BY JUDGE MRS.JUDITH A. BROWN WITH HANDLER LORI WILSON.
2024 AOM CHICAGOLAND AWARDED BY WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFFORD.
2023 BOB TOWARD GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDED BY JUDGE DONELLE RICHARDS AT THE CHEYENNE KC EVENT WITH HANDLER KAT WALLIS AND HER JUNIOR ASSISTANTS 5 POINTS.
2023 BOS AND SELECT AWARDED BY JUDGES GARY MYERS AND KATHLEEN V.CARTER, WITH HANDLER KAT WALLIS.
BOS AT 2023 GRAND RAPIDS KC AWARDED BY JUDGES DANIEL D. DOWLING, CHRIS A. LEVY AND SULIE GREENDALE PAVEZA 2 POINTS SHOWN BY KAT WALLIS.
BUCKHORN KC AWARDED BY JUDGE ALLEN L. ODOM 4 POINTS SHOWN BY KAT WALLIS.
MONTANA SHOW 2 POINTS.
FINISHED CHAMPIONSHIP
2023 BEST OF WINNERS AND WD AT THE GREATER DENVER DALMATIAN SPECIALTY AWARDED BY DALMATIAN BREEDER JUDGE MARY MILLER WITH HANDLER KAT WALLIS AND HER JUNIOR ASSISTAND BREE THOMPSON.
2023 BEST SR. IN SWEEPSTAKES AT THE GREATER DETROIT SPECIALTY AWARDED BY JUDGE PEGGY COFFMAN WITH HANDLER DANIELLE FRYKMAN.
2023 FIRST PLACE DCA 9-12 MONTH OLD DOGS AWARDED BY BREEDER JUDGE PATRICK JONES WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFORD.
2023 BEST OF WINNERS AND WD AWARDED BY JUDGE CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN NEALE AT THE MT HOOD DALAMATIAN REGIONAL SPECIALTY AT THE DCA NATIONAL WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFFORD.
2023 RWD AT THE PUDGET SOUND DALMATIAN REGIONAL SPECIALTY AWARDED BY JUDGE DANA CLINE WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA STAFFORD,
BEST IN SWEEPSTAKES AT THE 2023 CHICAGOLAND DALMATIAN SPECIALTY AWARDED BY JUDGE LOUISE PALORIK WITH HANDLER DANIELLE FRYKMAN.
WD AT A INDY SUPPORTED DALMATIAN SPECIALTY EVENT AWARDED BY DALMATIAN BREEDER KENNETH BERG WITH HANDLER DANIELLE FRYKMAN.
BOB TWICE AND WD TWICE AT TWO KC EVENTS AT GRAYSLAKE KC IN ILLINOIS AWARDED BY GUS SINBALDI, BRANDON H. EDGE, SALISA D NEELY AND CINDY VOGELS WITH HANDLER DANIELLE FRYKMAN.
BPISS AWARDED AT 2023 DCA NATIONAL MT HOOD DALMATIAN SPECIALTY WITH HANDLER SAMANTHA FRYKMAN.
BEST PUPPY IN BREED AND GROUP 1 IN DETRIOT DALMATIAN SPECIALTY WEEKEND OWNER HANDLED
" Why I Prefer the Dalmatian." ~ ~ By PAULA HOMILLER
A good Dalmatian fills the eye first, heart forever. His beauty is clean, no frills, no concealment. One can truly SEE his strong, symmetrical body, sleek white coat, black or liver tolerant of all climates. Easily whelped, easily cared for, what breed gives more pleasure for less trouble?His spottings make his loveliness sparkle. He looks the same every day without cropping, docking, barbering, plucking and what-not. A natural dog always , he is naturally healthy, hardy, long-lived and easily whelped, easily cared for, what breed gives more pleasure for less trouble? His medium size recommends him, big enough to command respect, yet so neatly made and nimble he is no misfit anywhere. He's a game dog for any "Sport," a gentle fellow for leisurely persons, a gay companion and guard for children. Now no dog can be everything to everyone. But-along with the accomplishments of any respectable dog (and others peculiarly his own) the Plum Pudding has one talent at which he is sheer perfection -- the ability to fit his owner like a good shoe. He will mold his life in the pattern you choose for him cleverly fulfilling your design. Dalmatians are as individual as their owners. Another's Dal may not appeal to you, nor would other's boots. But of your own spotted Dick you will say, "MY dog the best dog in the world!" He will give you his complete devotion, his loyalty, his heart. He will live for you alone and using keen intelligence and strangely acute sensibilities will be - - come what YOU want him to be .He is not a casual ornament. He has more to offer than the gift of his beauty, the greater gift of his beauty of character To say, I "prefer" the breed is feeble. I love it and always will. The Dalmatian is one of the finest things in an unfine world.
Taken from "Dog World," July, 1941 Tatoo Kennel, Newtown, Pennsylvania
LINDA DALY NEE MILES, (ELIZABETH confirmation name) IS AN AWARD WINNING ARTIST AND ASPIRING WRITER WITH A BA IN STUDIO ART PAINTING & CREATIVE WRITING FROM MILLS COLLEGE 1993
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LINDA ELIZABETH MILES AKA LINDA DALY
MA AMERICAN LITERATURE
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, PUEBLO,CO, 2015.
GRADUATE COURSEWORK IN CREATIVE WRITING,AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ART HISTORY. SOME STUDIO ART WORK.
BA STUDIO ART PAINTING & CREATIVE WRITING
MILLS COLLEGE,OAKLAND,CA 1993.
MENTORS JAY DEFEO AND HUNG LIU
JAY DEFEO
BEAT ARTIST FAMOUS FOR THE ROSE
WORKS IN MUSEUMS AROUND THE COUNTRY INCLUDING THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
1929-1989 HANOVER,NEW HAMPSHIRE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
HUNG LIU
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS AND MANY OTHER EXHIBITIONS
1948-2021 CHANGCHU, CHINA OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
STUDY WITH WATERCOLORIST THOMAS OWEN PRIVATELY AND IN CLASSES HE TAUGHT AT WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE 2008-2013.
THOMAS J.OWEN
AWS NWS
MARIO COOPER & DALE MEYERS MEDALFROM THE AMERICAN
WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
MANY OTHER AWARDS
WORKS IN MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY
PENNYSLVANIA COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO 1945-2019
AN HISTORICAL WATERCOLOR PAINTER WHO HAS INSPIRED ME MOST STRONLY IS ANDREW WYETH,​ ALSO A FAVORITE OF THOMAS OWEN, AS HE STUDIED WITH HIM IN WORKSHOPS. I HAVE VISITED HIS STUDIOS IN PA & ME,ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS AND HAVE BOOKS AND ONLINE MATERIALS ON HIS WORK.
ANDREW WYETH
1963 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
1950 TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARTISTS, ALONG WITH JACKSON POLLOCK
1977 ELECTION TO THE ACADAMIE DES BEAUX-ARTS
(THE FIRST SINCE JOHN SINGER SARGENT)
1978 SOVIET ACADEMY OF ARTS
1980 BRITAIN'S ROYAL ACADEMY
(THE FIRST LIVING ARTIST ELECTED)
1988 CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
WORKS HANG IN MANY MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE
WORKSHOPS BOOKS VIDEOS
1917-2009 CHADDS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA AND CUSHINGS, MAINE
CONTEMPORARY LIVING WATERCOLOR ARTISTS WHOM INSPIRE ME IN WORKSHOPS, BOOKS AND/OR ONLINE TODAY:
THOMAS SCHALLER 2024 Recipient of the Arthur Ross Award in Fine Art by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art
MANY OTHER AWARDS
WORKS HANG IN MANY MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD
JUROR,WORKSHOPS,BOOKS,VIDEOS,PUBLICATIONS
AWS NWS TWSA NWWS CWA-MA SWS-MA IMWA CAC SCNY ASAI
NYC & OCEAN CITY, CALIFORNIA
KEIKO TANABE AWS NWS SDWS-MA AIS
BOLD BRUSH PAINTING AWARD, MANY SAN DIEGO WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARDS
& OTHER AWARDS
AMERICAN WATERCOLOR WEEKLY ADVISORY BOARD
FACULTY PLEIN AIR CONVENTION & EXPO.(WORLD'S LARGEST PLEIN AIR EVENT)
JUROR,WORKSHOPS,BOOKS,VIDEOS,PUBLICATIONS,MANY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
JAPAN & SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
STEPHEN QUILLER AWSNWS NSPCA RMNW WW
2014 GOLD & 2018 SILVER METAL OF HONOR FROM THE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY & MANY OTHER AWARDS
ONE OF 3 AMERICAN ARTISTS INVITED TO FIRST ZHONG SHAN INTERNATIONAL MASTER WATERCOLOR INVITAIONAL EXHIBITION IN CHINA IN 2014
WORKS HANG IN COLORADO GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF GOVERNOR HICKENLOOPER BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER 2025
JUROR, WORKSHOPS, BOOKS, VIDEOS, PUBLICATIONS
CREEDE,COLORADO
FOR MY WATERCOLOR WORK I PREFER FABRIANO PAPER ARTISTICO 300 LB ROUGH COLD PRESS PAPER. MY PAINT PALETTES INCLUDES DANIEL SMITH,HOLBEIN & SENNELIER WATERCOLOR PAINTS,DANIEL SMITH AND WINSOR NEWTON GOACHE & ACRYLIC,SHIVA EGG TEMPERA AND STEPHEN QUILLER'S CASIEN. I USE THE QUILLER WHEEL PALETTE AT ALL TIMES,WOOD BOARDS FOR PLEIN AIR AND A GLASS ROUND FOR IN STUDIO WORK. AND WOULD LOVE TO GET A HOFFMAN PALETTE FOR OUTDOORS. I HAVE A LARGE EASEL FOR OILS IN STUDIO THAT WAS MY MOTHERS AND FOR PLEIN AIR AN EL PASO EASEL, AS WELL AS A TABLE EASEL AND WOODEN BOXES FOR CONTAINERS,INCLUDING A TRAVEL BOX FROM SENNELIER.
MY FAVORITE BRUSHES ARE SABLE OR SQUIRREL FULL SOFT ROUNDS SIZE 2,4,6 AND 8 UP OF BLACK VELVET,RAPHAEL, AND ESCODA AND ISABEY 6234 PETIT GRIS FRENCH ROUNDS. I ALSO USE SYNTHETIC FABER CASTELLE AND PRINCETON LARGE FLAT BRUSHES,FAN BRUSHES,SMALL ANGLED BRUSHES AND NATURAL HAIR FINE LONG THIN BRUSHES FOR VARIETY AND MORE PRECISE WORK. I USE HOT PRESS FABRIANO 300 LB PAPER FOR PORTRAITS. I USE CANVAS FOR OIL AND WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIMENT WITH CLAY BOARD FOR EGG TEMPERA.
OTHER TOOLS ESSENTIAL FOR ME ARE A CAMERA, SPRITZER,PAPER TOWELS,NATURAL SPONGE,WHITE ERASERS, KNEADED ERRASER,SCOTCH BRAND MASKING TAPE, COLOR WHEEL, RULERS, ANGLED AND ROUND MEASUREMENT TOOLS, VIEW FINDER AND GRAYSCALE FINDER.
I LIKE SENNELIER BLOCKS AND LIKE TO KEEP A SKETCH BOOK BY ETCHR AND OTHER HIGH QUALITY TRAVEL SKETCH BOOKS. I TRY TO WORK OUT VALUES IN AN INITIAL SKETCH. HOLBEIN PAINTS FEATURE BRILLIANT COLORS, WHILE BOTH DANIELLE SMITH AND SENNELIER PAINTS ARE MADE WITH HONEY AND ARE KNOWN FOR A LOT OF GRANDULATING PROPERTIES, WHICH ADD TEXTURE,WHILE THE HONEY PREVENTS TOO FAST DRYING. I USE DANIEL SMITH COLORS RECOMMENDED BY THOMAS SCHALLER IN PARTICULAR. THOMAS OWENS WAS ALSO A FAN. KEIKO TANABE ALSO USES HOLBEIN AND SENNELIER AS DOES THOMAS SCHALLER, SO I AM EXPANDING MY USAGE, ESPECIALLY AS MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL PAINTERS IN WATERCOLORS ALSO USED THESE PAINTS.
I LOVE CLEAR COLOR SIDE BY SIDE FOR HIGH KEY WORK AND COMPLIMENTS. I AM INTERESTED TO SEE HOW HOLBEIN'S COLORS I CHOSE WORK OUT IN THIS REGARD. I ALSO LIKE MIXING COLORS TO ADD SHADOWS,DEPTH AND AT TIMES NATURAL OVERLAPS OF COLOR TO MANAGE EDGES THAT ARE PRESENT IN THOMAS SCHALLER'S WORK. FOR ME PAINTING IN LAYERS INCREASES EMOTIONAL CONNECTION AND RICHNESS OF WHAT I AM PRESENTING,ALONG WITH PRESERVING WHITES.
MIXED MEDIA CAN ALSO BE VERY REWARDING,INCLUDING ACRYLIC,GOACHE, CASIEN, INKS AND WATERCOLORS,SUCH AS EMBRACED BY STEPHEN QUILLER. I FEEL THE LARGE WORKS I DID IN OILS THAT I LEARNED FROM MY MILLS COLLEGE MENTORS,JAY DEFEO AND HUNG LIU HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE INSPIRATIONS FOR FIGUATIVE PAINTING AND WORKING LOOSE. THOMAS OWEN'S INTRODUCTION TO ME OF ANDREW WYETH'S WORK IN EGG TEMPERA INSPIRES ME TO ALSO EXPLORE THAT MEDIUM. STEPHEN QUILLER HAS ALSO DONE BEAUTIFUL WORK WITH EGG TEMPERA.
I LOVE WATERCOLOR FOR ANY SUBJECT. KEIKO TANABE WATERCOLORS I ADORE FOR HER LOOSE APPROACH AND EMBRACE OF PLEIN AIR WORK CREATING A ROMANTIC MOOD REMINDING ME OF WILLIAM GAUNT TURNER COMBINED WITH ARCHITECTURAL APPRECIATION OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES. I HAVE HER SECOND BOOK ON SAN DIEGO WHERE I HAVE OFTEN VACATIONED AND IT REALLY MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I AM RIGHT THERE. I ALSO REALLY LIKE STEPHEN QUILLER'S COLORFUL COLORDO MOUNTAINS AND DEPTH HE ACHIEVES THROUGH TEXTURE OF MIXED MEDIA,AS WELL AS HIS TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION OF FIGURES AND URBAN SCENES. I HAVE ATTENDED A THOMAS SCHALLER WORKSHOP AND WAS OVERWHELMED BY HIS UNDERSTANDING OF ARCHITECTURE AND PERSPECTIVE. I LOVE HIS EMOTIVE URBAN SCENES AND STRIVE TO IMPROVE MY SENSE OF USING SPACE IN VANISHING POINTS,THIRDS,THE GOLDEN MEAN AND POWERFUL FOCUS ON LIGHT AND THE IMAGINATION I FIND IN HIS WORK.
I OWN A VARIETY OF LANDSCAPE AND FIGURATIVE WATERCOLOR WORK BY THOMAS OWEN AND ONE LARGE OIL LANDSCAPE. ONE OF HIS WORK'S I OWN WAS A WATERCOLOR TRACTOR FEATURED IN ARTIST'S MAGAZINE. HIS WORK USES WONDERFUL TEXTURE, COLOR AND DEPTH. TOM OWENS ALSO REALLY LIKED THE WORK OF THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS:
EDGAR A. WHITNEY
AWS
PROFESSOR,WORKSHOPS,BOOKS,EDITOR OF AMERICAN ARTIST
NYC 1891-1987
FRANK WEBB
AWS-DF NWS TWSA
MARIOCOOPER 7 DALE MEYERS MEDAL FROM THE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY IN 2013 & MANY OTHER AWARDS
WORKSHOPS, BOOKS
NORTH VERSAILLES,PENNSYVANIA PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 1927-2022
REX BRANDT
AWS ROYAL SOCIETY OF THE ARTS
DOLPHIN FELLOW AWS, 1981
CALIFORNIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY PREISDENT 1949
WORKS HELD IN THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM
PROFESOR,WORKSHOPS, BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA CORONA DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA 1914-2000
I CAN SEE IN THOMAS J. OWEN'S WORK WHITNEY'S USE OF INDUSTRIAL SCENES AND CONCENTRATION ON VALUES, PATTERN AND WORKS FEATURING A MIDDLE KEY AND GREAT CONTRASTS. HE PAINTED A HISTORICAL GAS STATION FOR WHICH HE WON A MEDAL FROM AWS, WHICH REALLY RECALLS WHITNEY, NOT TO MENTION HIS PAINTING I HAVE OF A TRACTOR AND WORKS HE HAS DONE OF TRAINS.
FRANK WEBB HAS DONE COLORFUL WORK WHERE DESIGN BALANCE OF REALISM WITH ABSTRACTION WAS WHAT HE WAS KNOWN FOR IN HIS PAINTINGS AND I EXPERIENCED FROM THOMAS J. OWENS IN HIS CLASSROOM. FRANK WEBB WON MANY AWARDS INCLUDING IN 2019 AN AWARD BY THE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AS A LIVING LEGEND, THE FIRST IN THEIR 153 YEAR HISTORY AND A RECIPIENT OF MORE THAN 125 MAJOR AWARDS.
REX BRANT FOCUED ON LANDSCAPE,ARCHITECTURE AND THE SEA IN WATERCOLORS THAT HAVE BEEN DESCRIPTED AS BROAD,SPLASHY AND CUBIST. HE WORKED IN A VARIETY OF MEDIA,DID MURALS AND FILMS. HIS PAINTING "CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS," 1963 RECALLS THOMAS J. OWENS LOVE FOR TREES. ONE OF THE PAINTINGS I HAVE BY THOMAS J. OWENS IS OF PINE TREES WITH SOME SIMILARITIES TO BRANDT. HE ALSO LOVED TO PAINT BOATS AND I SUSPECT MAY HAVE ALSO BEEN INFLUENCED BY MR.BRANDT'S PAINTINGS OF BOATS.
I HOPE TO BE AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF COLORADO,SAN DIEGO,ALASKA,WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETIES SOON, WHILE ALSO EMBRACING WRITING AND ADVENTURES IN RELATED ART MEDIAS. DOGS,HORSES AND MY PRIVATE PRACTICE WORK AS A THERAPIST, ALONG WITH FAMILY AND EDUCATION ENDEAVORS HAVE OFTEN TAKEN MUCH OF MY TIME,ALONG WITH TIME RECOVERING FROM SURGERIES. I HAVE A LOT OF PASSIONS AND INTERESTS THAT HAVE ENRICHED MY LIFE. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL SEE MY PAINTINGS ONLINE SOON.
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“It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. It began to occur to me that unless I had a need to demonstrate my own cleverness and learning, I would do better to rely upon the client for the direction of movement in the process.” – Carl Rogers​​
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CBT and DBT are evidence based approaches, which along with Person-Centered Therapy are foundational modern therapies for treating mood disorders and trauma focusing on bringing words and thoughts in balance with feelings to manage behavior.
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TFCBT is an evidence based treatment of children who are most often sexually abused children and or in grief and employs the family closely in the healing process.
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REMEMBER THAT FOR CHILDREN PLAY IS LANGUAGE AND WITH
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Dr. Bessel van der Kolk says that "trauma resolution pendulates between states of exploration and safety, between language and body, between remembering the past and feeling alive in the present."
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Note that the practice of sandplay is grounded in Jungian psychology, Margaret Lowenfeld's World Technique and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom.
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These methods are cited as therapies to be considered in the treatment of trauma by Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk.cites the sequential-neuro development work of Dr. Lorraine Freedle, PhD. a prominent sandplay therapist in Hawaii and a neuropsychologist, whom I have studied with in an intensive workshop in Hawaii, along with Dr. Gita Morena, PhD, a professor and published author at the University of California in transpersonal psychology and sandplay. I have had lengthy consultative supervision with each, in addition to training and/or consultative supervision with a range of other prominent sandplay therapists at local, national and international events. Note that the practice of sandplay is grounded in Jungian psychology, Margaret Lowenfeld's World Technique and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom. Laurel Howe is a prominent leader both in Jungian Analytical Circles and Sandplay in Lakewood, Colorado, known for her work with children and adults, who has inspired me during my lengthy sandplay process work with her and in an earlier analyst for about a year with Denver Jungian Analyst Laurel Dodson, who integrated family systems work of Virginia Satir with Jungian psycholgy. Prior to meeting her I was very involved for two years obtaining marriage and family therapy training and supervision with Dr. Jan Raynak, MD and Dr. Suzanne Pope, PhD at the Colorado Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy in Boulder, CO.
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The Gottman method is a famed evidence-based treatment in relationship work with couples and couples as parents.
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