Namir looks into the water bowl I kept outside for him and Cookie during a morning in the garden in April 2009. Apparently rain had fallen and everything was wet, but that didn’t bother Namir and Cookie wandering among the forget-me-nots—taller than they were—as I worked in my garden. With
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Read more about this photo at Pussy Willow, A Vintage Photo. Browse some rescued cats and kittens! All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one
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Giuseppe took a beating from me this week, picked up and squeezed, flipped over and pummeled, his skin pulled and kneaded in great handfuls, even his ears and tail and legs pulled and stretched in different directions. But he’s a big sturdy kitty and can take this sort of treatment,
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I call pencil “my first and favorite medium”. My mother was a newspaper crossword puzzle fan and I’ve been sketching in pencil since I picked up one of her readily-sharpened No. 2 pencils with the yellow paint and the pink eraser and began to make lines on one of her
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The typical morning scenario from this date in 2009: Peaches obviously reacting to something and Namir, well, being Namir. Peaches was one extremely patient and understanding senior kitty. All she wanted was her little can of food twice a day, and then some in between. I fed everyone dry food
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This is one of the photos I mentioned in my post earlier today, “Darling Clementine”. Is Namir posing, or what? He had complete physical awareness. I am convinced he was a great stage actor in one of his incarnations. He certainly played the part here. I will point out one
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January light is so beautiful, the sun still at a low angle streaming into windows and doors, the days often overcast and the brilliant warm yellow sunlight a respite, and this is what has Namir transfixed in the stream of sun that washes in the back door in winter—and probably
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A Formerly Feral Kitty Finds Her Place: Sunday Morning Moses made it back upstairs after breakfast before I had a chance to make the bed, and I didn’t have the heart to move her. So I got a sheet of drawing paper and my pastels and did a quick sketch
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Inspired by felines you know! Visit Portraits of Animals on Etsy this Holiday Season. All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using one in a print
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This is the third and final article in the series of articles about my cats visiting me in a spiritual sense, a collective of individual instances through the years. Working in my office/studio one evening, I heard the door of my refrigerator open—you know how you recognize these everyday noises—and
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