Braise, Smokey, and family wish you bonne fêtes… "many happy returns"! If Smokey looks a little pained in this picture, it is the photographer that is troubling him: why, he wonders, is her cross-eyed face contorting like that? Wouldn't "Cheese!" or "Ouistiti!" be just as effective in getting us to smile? How she troubles herself!  poix (pwah) noun, feminine     : pitch noir comme poix … Continue reading poix (pitch) + Night blindness while driving