The other day, I met a Berger Picard (AKA Picardy Shepherd) for the first time. I’d never seen one of these rare French herding dogs until Boo (short for Taboo) visited the same small cafe in Foresthill where we were having lunch. When I decided to take her photograph, she was no longer still and her owner was enticing her to calm down by getting her fixated on a treat he was holding. He never really got her still and I never managed to get her eye in focus, even after I knelt down on one painful knee to try at eye level. But her nose, on the other hand, is tack sharp and so I decided Boo’s nose is the subject of this photograph. After all, as a herding dog, her nose is not just for sniffing. The breed standard is a large black nose and they are known to use their large noses to nudge and push livestock and to greet people. And greet us she did, using that large, black nose.