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From the Archives: Watch Your Own Berries, We’re Busy

Watch your own berries, we're busy.
Watch your own berries, we’re busy.

On this date back in 2008 Namir and Cookie and I enjoyed a summer morning in the back yard. The last week of June is raspberry time in my back yard, and I’d gone around with a bowl to pick whatever was ripe, and likely I was photographing insects and flowers and such as well, and had to put my bowl of berries down somewhere safe. I usually ate at this picnic table, supervised by Cookie and Namir, and in between their explorations they used the table as a lookout.

Do you see it?
Do you see it?

If I were to set my berries on the grass for a few minutes, little critters, even birds, would run over and steal a berry or two. So while I was otherwise occupied, I set the bowl on the table thinking perhaps the presence of Cookie and Namir, ace rodent hunters, would deter any infringements.

Let's get it!
Let’s get it!

But I came back from what I was doing to see them with their backs to the bowl, and even a question didn’t get their attention. Whatever it was they were focused on, it was a heck of a lot more important than my berries. Not sure why, but they let it get away!

It got away!
It got away!

 

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What other photos did I feature on this date?

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Wordless Wednesday: Belly Rub With Starfish Paws, 2014
black cat getting belly rub
Mr. Sunshine asked for it, he got it.

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Unexpected Frills, 2013
    Mewsette, famous feline cardboard interpretation artist, gets to work early, while the inspiration of dreams is fresh.
Mewsette, famous feline cardboard interpretation artist, gets to work early, while the inspiration of dreams is fresh.

“I like the idea of taking the edges off these dull rectangular boxes,” says Mewsette, famous feline cardboard interpretation artist as she dexterously adds a few early-morning touches to her latest endeavor at finding the statement hidden within the cardboard. “It’s a metaphor for life.”

Mewsette’s newest work is called “Unexpected Frills”, and true to her word she is taking the edges from a very dull rectangular cardboard box. But not all the edges—Mewsette does like her statements in contrast and has chosen just one section of the box to skillfully peel the layers of paper that make the corrugated surface and pulling them up in strips so they can curl, and it looks as if the box is either losing its stuffing or some organic matter is growing from a spot about two-fifths down from the top of the box, only on one edge.

“This is what is ‘unexpected’,” Mewsette adds, “you don’t expect to see extemporaneous frilly things as part of a rectangular cardboard box.

“The box does not want to be rectangular. And it’s another statement in my series of works describing impermanence, much like our human talks about those buildings that start sprouting trees from the roof, nature always reclaims what is hers. I am helping this cardboard box in reclaiming its true nature.”

Wherever did Mewsette get that idea? But it is a lovely work. I’m going to have to be very careful when I need to open this carton to use the Priority Mail shipping boxes inside.

    "Unexpected Frills"
“Unexpected Frills”

See other posts featuring the talented Mewsette’s cardboard interpretations.

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rainwater running over feet.
Rainwater running over my feet.

And if you wonder where Mewsette gets her crazy ideas when she gets to her cardboard interpretation, you should see what our human did just a little bit ago. We had a storm—and it had been really, really hot, forever—and while we were glad for the cool wind and darkness, we sensibly took shelter under the desk or in the basement but she went outside in the storm, and stood in the water falling! She was dancing in a puddle, and we’d say she made a real fool of herself, but that’s what makes our mom fun.

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Shades of Green, 2012
    Mewsette and Jelly Bean model their green eyes.
Mewsette and Jelly Bean model their green eyes.

This is not to take off on the title of a certain series of books, it is actually the first thing I thought when I looked at these photos; there was, of course, more than one photo to choose from. Now that the trees have leafed out the sunlight reflects green into the house and enhances all those green eyes. Even my yellow art glass bowl hanging in the upper right corner looks green, and the wall behind—actually those are seen in that lovely round antique mirror, the wall and ceiling of the stairwell colored green by the light from the big window in my office at the foot of the stairs.

What wonderful faces to greet me at the top of the stairs. And today Mewsette upstages brother Bean for having bigger eyes and longer whiskers, the biggest and longest in the whole house, unlike yesterday when Bean exposed himself for the sake of winning a non-existent cuteness award.

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