Okay, more in the dead leaf department.... I think Nicki's motto must be It's all good. He bounces and bounds with exuberant energy just about anywhere. But there are subtle differences. Each of our walking places entails a different activity accent: bal-spiel, sniff-spiel, oshin-bal-spiel, fuzzy frolic, trail dashing and so on. I think the inter-urban trail is his favourite, at least when (as today) it begins with bay-bal spiel and swimming followed by trail dashing and sniffing. There was a time when i did path-dashing by the bay..... over the bridge and back too... <sigh>