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From the Archives: Mark and Cookie, April 2010

My favorite photo.
My favorite photo.

I treasure these photos of my brother with Cookie from 2010. Ostensibly, they are both helping me in the garden on an April afternoon, but this is usually how it worked out. Cookie’s conquest actually happened in several steps and I have four of them here.

My brother loved landscaping and often picked up jobs with landscapers. After his accident, when he went to the community college for job training, he trained in landscaping and janitorial services. He couldn’t do anything heavy but he could get some work done. He would stop over a few times a week to help in my garden, but he always needed supervision, and frequent breaks. In truth, he never got much done, but he felt good about it, and I liked to see him get out of his apartment and visit. We always had a meal too. But by 2010, a decade after his accident, he was seriously slowing down.

Cookie was always aware of how people felt. She left supervising me and went to sit with her back to Mark because she knew it would get his attention. It did; he started petting her immediately.

Cookie playing hard to get. My brother was not hard to get.
Cookie playing hard to get. My brother was not hard to get.

She turned around to enjoy the petting.

Cookie always responded to pets.
Cookie always responded to pets.

And this is my favorite photo, and this is where it falls in the series. It just said so much about each of them, Cookie always friendly and confident, my brother gentle and affectionate. I love the moment when Cookie lifts a paw to step on his lap and he is just about to gently pet her with that big beefy hand.

My favorite photo.
My favorite photo.

And of course, Cookie gets his lap.

Cookie has a lap.
Cookie has a lap.

Photos pulled “From the Archives” were taken by one or another digital camera of mine between 2002 and, well, yesterday, but usually they are older than that, and I had never had the chance to feature them. They’re a fun way to “introduce” other members of my feline family who came and went before I began blogging, and to illustrate my feline family in general from days gone by.


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Tortoiseshell Camouflage
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Tuesday: Rescue Stories
Wednesday: Commissioned Portrait or Featured Artwork
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