Daily Photo: Mimi and Me
We had a little walk out in the yard, and I love to photograph her with my feet or my skirt or my shoes, depending on the season, as she rubs on my legs and purrs, so happy.
I don’t get out into the yard much at the moment, or even outside in general. I am glad when Mimi insists we go outdoors. Once we’re out there I’m in the wonderland again and we both enjoy our time. Photographing things out there and sometimes transplanting things or cutting wildflowers for a vase give me a physical and creative break I need.
Below, two of the things we found in the back yard. Tiny chickweed flowers are about 3/16″ wide and look like little stars. As I photographed them I saw the even tinier spotted beetle. This miniscule world, if you weren’t looking you wouldn’t see it, but it is very real for the flowers and insects that inhabit it. And fleabane, for some reason one of my favorite spring flowers, its thread-like petals looking like a brush and that raised central disk that looks like a piece of lemon candy, the whole thing at most 1/2″ wide.
And there were so many fleabane flowers that I decided they’d make a nice bouquet for this week for the vase by the front door.
Later, I was still working on some framing and making more stuff for the weekend pet expo while six black cats got their beauty sleep in the next room.
Hamlet was my supervisor, but I caught him sleeping on the job. Who knows what I’ll get into without adequate feline supurrvision?
Sunshine and Giuseppe decided they could sleep on the job too. Hamlet is always courteous to his elders and concedes his five-day box.
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Other Photos Posted On or Around This Date…
Hamlet Reflecting, 2016
Hamlet reflects in the mirror, an elegant pose.
He’s looking at me, in the mirror. I’ve found him resting up here a few times and this was the first time I was able to get a photo. He is still uneasy about the big black eye of the DSLR staring at him so I try to catch him first with my phone. As soon as he saw the big camera come up, he was out of there. But at least I have the camera phone photo of him. He’s making progress!
And I here is one from yesterday.
Getting to Know You
Ophelia sniffs around with Bella. This is after Hamlet chased Bella around the house a few times, and he was actually in the box with her, all three kind of milling around. They still move quickly and I can’t always get the photo I want. Earlier Basil quietly followed Hamlet and they both came up from the basement at the same time and ended up in the same box just standing there. The camera came out and Hamlet was out of there. Eventually, they will settle down.
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Other Photos Posted On or Around This Date…
Daily Photo: The Outside Is Right There! 2015
We’ve had the windows open for the past few weeks, but it was so hot this weekend that the doors had to get their screens a little early and open the basement door, which consists of taking off layers of duct tape. It’s all worth the effort to be able to have all the air flow, and for the fine felines to have closer access to their entertainment. Above it’s Mewsette, Jelly Bean, Mimi and Bella, who was a little scared of the door at first!
It started with the girls, Mewsette and Mimi, who took their accustomed places on the doorstep and just spent some time smelling the morning.
Then Jelly Bean joined them, and of course that space in between them was meant for him.
Bella was a little overwhelmed by all the open doors. The windows are above the ground and she’s looked out into the air and the lilac and spruce and maple, but these doors…the outside was RIGHT THERE, and there were even chittering little critters that ran back and forth! It was almost too much, she felt like she was back outside again and she wasn’t sure she liked that! She sat about five feet back from the basment door, but she trusted Mimi and Bean and Mewsette, and eventually came up to join them.
Mimi suggests I open the door. I don’t thing so baby.
Later Basil and Bella went to the basement door together. Basil was pretty excited and once he was accustomed to it climbed the door repeatedly. I mean: repeatedly. Bella still hung back but went back and forth to the door. The mess on the floor is from carrying my geraniums out from the corner of the basement. I was too busy to sweep up.
And then there was the front door! Sunshine, Giuseppe, Basil and Mimi line up to watch chipmunk races. Bean isn’t sure he’s got it right…
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Charm’s favorite way to nurse, lying on my feet. Every mom can use a little moral support! Kittens in order are Splash, Higgins, Crayola, Zorro and Blondie.
Mimi is having a nice easy Mother’s Day. Charm is chilling in the sink, where her kittens can’t reach her for a while.
“In my own little corner…” I can barely get a soap dish to balance there but little Zorro fits purr-fectly. And it’s nice and cool!
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Daily Photo: Mewsette’s Secret to the Greenest Eyes, 2014
Mewsette has green green eyes already, but she is prepared to share one of her deepest secrets for the greenest eyes on any kitty.
“Sit next to the asparagus fern when the sun is shining on it,” she whispurrrs, “no one will be able to believe the color!”
We’ve enjoyed nearly a week of sunny days, and hop you have too!
A reader reminded me after I posted this that Cookie and Kelly had also had secrets to the greenest eyes, and here they are too—just in case you need to have the greenest eyes!
The Secret to Kelly’s Green Eyes, 2011
“Cookie Has Parsley Eyes” from “Cookie Love, and Making Memories”, 2012
This photo won a Muse Medallion in the 2012 Cat Writers’ Association Contest.
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Daily Photo: Small, Medium, Large and XL, 2014
Or maybe it’s Extra Small, Small, Medium, and Large. In any case, it’s Mimi, Bean, Sunshine and Mewsette sprawled on the bed.
Well, they’re really having an easy Saturday, especially once it started raining. Just a little spot of sun shone through after a thunderstorm but nothing got these four moving.
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Can We Just Go to Bed Now?, 2013
You don’t really need to paint all those boxes behind me tonight, do you?
I’ve had a very long week supervising you and I need my beauty rest.
Can we just go to bed now?
You’re right, Mimi, we have had a number of late nights this week, and you don’t even look happy in your supervisor’s box. But I just need a little time to get the first coat on these boxes….
It is quite late and we had a huge storm this afternoon, so first thing tomorrow morning Mimi and I will have to inspect the neighbor’s maple tree which is lying across our yard. We are glad that the tall old tree fell where no one was hurt, and we will report from the back yard tomorrow.
And Mimi has never had a cranky moment in her life, no matter what I hand her.
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Big Yawn, 2011
Not as pretty as yesterday’s photo, but Mewsette does have wonderful yawns!
By the way, I did catch Mewsette in a big yawn during the photography stakeout last Thursday. (I looked back through my photos from April and May 2011 and I have no idea what I meant by that!)
Hope you had a great day, though!
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Your Package is in Good…Paws, 2011
Ever my assistant and constant companion, Cookie.
This is a big box of printed materials plus a smaller box to be delivered to a customer.
On top of the stack is Cookie.
No one would dare attempt to touch anything in the boxes with a tortoiseshell cat en garde.
Cookie took this role upon herself as she has for most of her life, being a working kitty. She is happy to provide assistance during my workday. She is also 19 and was very pleased with herself at climbing up and up and up onto the boxes on her own—or, well, I was glad to see that she can still do this while she had no doubt.
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Saturday: Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat, Living Green With Pets, Creating With Cats
And sometimes, I just throw my hands in the air and have fun!
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