SOMERSET SUNSET
Hatch Graham & Judy Taylor Graham
Welcome to Somerset Sunset, adventures with our search & rescue dogs and Taylor Graham's poetry
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
Following a search dog in the dark (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Clair de lune The mountains finally shed a perfect moon. Two in the morning. We’ve had the black for tracing brushy hill and frozen bog,...
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
Managing dogs on a search
Printed in THE NATIONAL SHERIFF (February-March 1985
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
Our heroes (6)
Pattycake was unexpected – our "international shepherd," daughter of a traveling-salesman (Tervuren by his looks, from somewhere on the...
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
Covering the ground (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Boots Off the Trail for the Bell Tower girls, search of summer 1984 My boots bore me summer-long searching up Iron Mountain and down...
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
A water-search poem for Roxy
Go to the River's Edge This is where someone saw the two of them go in – the girl on a boulder by snowmelt current, her fiancé with...
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
Our heroes (5)
Roxy (Kuskokwim Odyssey) was daughter of my search dog Sardy. I didn’t mean to keep a pup, but when puppy buyers arrived, I found myself...
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
For Pepper, a poem
Hiking Old Dog to the Alpine Lake She takes the lead with unaccustomed spryness, remembering this route through sagebrush, bitterbrush,...
- Jan 9, 2021
- 1 min
Boy who hugged a tree (stump)
"Search for Eli" by Judy Graham, reprinted in NASAR's RESPONSE! magazine from SAR Dog ALERT newsletter
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
An earthquake poem by Taylor Graham
Quake Labyrinth We climbed stairs to the landing, and a door, but it was jammed. Another de-construct of earthquake that knocked down...
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Our heroes (4)
Pepper (Kuskokwim Jalapeña T.D.) was Hatch's search partner with WOOF and CARDA, a four-legged lady tough enough to let her handler know...
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
Learning to get down (a poem by Taylor Graham)
On a search, dog & handler may need to be lowered - over a cliff or the side of a building, for example. Many handlers learn rappelling,...
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
In the air with dog
an article first appearing in the NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) magazine, RESPONSE, in 1983