Daily Photo: Basil Says Hold Off a Bit

May 7, 2020 Bernadette

black cat in basket — Basil asks for a few seconds.

Basil wants to look his best for his photo so he asks me to hold off until he can clean up a bit, and gives his fuzzy face a quick wash. It looks as if he’s making a fist! But a closer look and you can see a pink tongue.

From around this date in past years

Point of View, 2019

So we have three cats all looking in different directions…no, we have two, one is a reflection. Is Mariposa’s reflection a part of reality, or just a reflection of the moment? So whose point of view prevails here? I put the focus on Mariposa reflected in the mirror. In the meantime, Basil and I will continue on with our existential crisis.

From Facebook and Instagram

Fancy boys enjoying their morning nap. Basil, Hamlet.

Ah, fresh air and warm sunshine and the sounds of little critters right outside the door. Bella, Mimi, Jelly Bean, Mewsette, Mariposa.

Photos from previous years.

Artful Considerations, 2018

Is Mewsette having creative thoughts? Well, she is a Creative Cat! I love using the window and the vase of brushes as a backdrop. The sun is streaming in and reflects off my white drafting table so Mewsette is well illuminated. What an inspiration.

From Instagram

Hamlet is VERY long and slender, especially when it’s hot.

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Posted around this date in previous years

Out in the Yard With Mom, 2017

Mewsette carefully watches Mimi choose and eat a blade of grass. I guess you’re never too old to learn from your mom’s example as Mewsette demonstrates.

The two girls headed for the lush and dewy back yard.

Later, Mimi found the picnic bench for a sunbath…

Mimi has a sunbath after teaching Mewsette about eating grass.

…and Mewsette found a tasty blade of grass.

Mewsette successfully finds a tasty blade of grass and eats it.

Later still, Mewsette simply looked absolutely beautiful…

…while Mimi worked on her tan.

Yesterday, when I ran out of time to post, I shared a buttercups photo of Mimi, “The sun came out.”

Later in the day when the sun moved over the house it came flooding the dining room window, causing a group sunbath.

Basil tries to figure where he can fit in the sunny window gathering.

Also, looks like our home decorating squirrel has been at it again. Pillow stuffing is gone, pillow cover tangled in the tree. Squirreled again.

The squirrel tried to drag the pillow cover up to his nest again.

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Posted around this date in previous years

Bella Just Can’t Be Any Cuter!, 2016

The feet in the air and...no head. — The feet in the air and…no head.

I just can’t figure out which photo is cuter! I decided to post all four.

Bella was totally enjoying herself in the grapes box with her new favorite mousie, the tiger stripe, now that she has banished the violet mousie for some infraction (I keep finding it stuffed behind the cat tree).

First it was the paws in the air that I saw from the corner of my eye and quickly got a photo—hind paws in the air, front paws in the air, and the mousie where her face should be! She was tossing it in the air and catching it!

Then she got distracted by a bird outside the window…

And then she saw me stand up and look into the box, and that was even funnier!

Once she realized I’d seen her she was all about putting herself back together, but I saw her in action!

I’ve been off of posting for a week again, but I’ll be starting up again this weekend. I had two huge design jobs in here at one time, and while I usually schedule around that I had no way of reorganizing things this time. My library will be 115 years old on May 1, and that’s been a pretty big deal to prepare for and to celebrate this weekend, one of the big projects.

Also, Hamlet and Ophelia are finally really exploring and getting accustomed to the household instead of hiding most of the time they are out, which is most of the day, and are no longer frightened of me with my camera. They needed some supervision since I didn’t want them to revert to being traumatized by things like loud noises or unexpected encounters with the other cats. I’ll update on that this weekend!

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