Awesome posts. I start my resteeming run tomorrow, but a few ideas on tags. You have use of five of them on Steemit and sometimes it's about targeting the most accurate tag where your post will recieve the most views. For instance: health writing life blog animalphotography would have put this post out to a larger audience and as it is a great post I have no doubt it would have received more vote.
Now a thought occurs to me in regards to something you would be great at given your style of writing and humor. Have you ever visited the #walkwithme tag? If you get a chance stop by and have a look at some of the peoples posts you can find there. I believe you would easily gain some followers and earn some awesome votes by throwing a few posts up in that category. Beautiful lab btw. I lost my lab back in July at the age of ten. They truly are remarkable little souls. Well, I hope the feed back helped and reach out if you need a hand at any point.