Daily Photo: Dreamy Little Girl
Who knows what she ponders? Maybe the ceiling fan and how someday she’ll get that thing. Maybe how nice it is to be inside a nice warm house when it’s very cold outside, unlike the abandoned house she grew up in. Maybe, like me, she slips into a non-pondering mode where she’s just blissfully in the moment without judgement. She’s tucked into a portion of my display in the middle of the room so that when I turn around from my desk, she is right there, and I can even touch her to make sure she’s real.
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From Instagram
Easy morning birdwatching. Bella, Sienna, Hamlet.
From the Garden and Beyond
I could tell the snow was slowing down when the birds began visiting the feeders. These two blue jays were having a grand time, sampling all five feeders in the back and three out front, making their blue jay noises.
From around this date in past years
Good Morning, 2020
I get the best photos of cats on this bathroom windowsill. This photo of Mimi was pretty popular on Instagram, and I was pretty pleased with it too.
I was so happy to get a photo of Mimi on the windowsill in the bathroom. She hasn’t hopped up there for a while, and neither have most of the others either. Over the summer the baby gate I use there takes up most of the sill, and until we did some work on my gutters rainwater has actually been coming in the window and also through the wall even when the window is closed, making a big mess. With all the rain we’ve had lately visiting this favorite morning window hasn’t been very comfortable.
But Bella has been up there, though she doesn’t permit photos, and Hamlet as well. I’m pretty sure everyone else has visited too.
I shared the photo above on Instagram on Monday, and here are a few more below from Monday and over the weekend.
Of course, you want to nap with me. (Basil)
Apparently only one basket in four is acceptable for naps.
The birds.
Look closely for two deer in this photo.
End of the day.
Playing around with little cat shapes in polymer clay.
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Photos from around this date in previous years
The Feline Narnia Portal, 2019
Finally found that Narnia portal the cats have always known about. Cleverly marked by the cat books.
This photo was definitely a hit on Facebook. I’d taken it when I was setting up for one of my open houses or just reorganizing as I developed my shop display and didn’t get a chance to share it then. I just remembered it and decided it was time to share. I still laugh every time I look at it!
It’s pretty frightening, though, when one of them disappears—completely—for hours sometimes. They could have escaped somehow, or be caught somewhere in the house or hurt or ill and hiding or unable to make a sound. It’s scared the crap out of me a few times and I’ve upended the house to find them, like when Kelly was hiding back in 2012. Cats finding small hidden spots to nap is a part of their biology and on its own that’s not a problem. This spot in particular is a real prize because the bookcase backs up to the wall where the furnace vent for the second goes up, and it’s totally toasty warm in that little kitty cave. I just want to know where those tiny spots are in case of an emergency. And then it’s funny again.
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From Facebook
If that’s all the sun there is, Mimi will take it. She’s the black speck in the middle of the photo.
Photos from years past.
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Kitty Keep-warm Lamp, 2018
Mimi sometimes does this, but lately Bella’s been getting there first. Those old-fashioned 25-watt light bulbs put out the heat, but not so much that the glass shade is too hot for a kitty to cuddle up to. On these cold nights kitties need all the warm spots they can get.
Bella prefers to bask in privacy. I wish I’d had my better camera—these were taken with my phone. Typically, because I photograph so many birds from the window the camera is usually there. I’ll make sure it is from now on, and of course I’ll never capture Bella there again.
This is the same lamp by which I photographed cats which became Halloween cards.
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From Instagram and Facebook
I have been unusually busy with errands, water in the basement, snow and ice…but I have shared a few photos on Facebook.
January 9
January 11
January 12
January 13
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What other photos did I post on or about this date?
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We Iz Cute!, 2017
We iz cute! You don’t need kittens in here for cutez!
The boys are happy to have their bathroom back. They seem to forget that once they were the litter of kittens in that bathroom with a house full of adult cats who didn’t appreciate having their bathroom taken away.
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From Instagram and Facebook
Friday the 13th
Oh, no, it’s Friday the 13th and there are #8blackcats in my kitchen! It’s okay, Giuseppe tells me they just want breakfast.
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A heart-shaped nap
Later in my studio…
My studio supervisors are having a heart-shaped nap.
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Mimi and the rain
Saturday…
I may have accomplished many things today, but the rain is still falling and Mimi cannot take her walk so I can just get over myself.
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What other photos did I post on or about this date?
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All Cats Are Not Black!, 2016
Teddy Bear is shocked to find a kitty who looks like him! For months he’s been the only cat in a house full who is not black! At least the cats that he saw. He didn’t know we had a kindred spirit hiding in the foster room!
He and Simon and sometimes Bella have been visiting with our houseguests lately. Hamlet is a little frightened to come out of the room with all my chaos of stuff, and then everywhere he turns he sees another cat! It’s been very, very good for him to see these two and begin to play with them—he’s even more relaxed with me. Tweetie is thrilled!
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What other photos have I shared on or around this date?
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Littered With Cats, 2011
From January 2011, a sunny morning in the kitchen. Yes, this similar to another recent photo reprise, but this one includes Cookie looking out the door, Mimi having a sun bath, and the Fantastic Four just, well, littering the floor. Something about that January morning sun…
What happens when the winter sun shines in the back door in early morning for the second day in a row? Everybody takes advantage of it.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a lasting sunny morning, some bright ones with cold haze, mostly cloudy or overcast covers it before an hour has passed. Yesterday and today were bright blue and sunny; yesterday everyone in the household (including me) stepped into this strange, unfamiliar substance, warm sunlight in the house. Today, all the cats had it down right away and after a brief romp around the house and a sip from the bathroom faucet, all of them came back to the kitchen, collecting in the warmth by the door.
From the front is Mr. Sunshine, crouching, and Giuseppe, sitting up; these two have a way of looking slightly guilty no matter the situation. Then Mewsette is cleaning her foot and Jelly Bean is purringly balled up next to the door. In the far distance, Mimi is on the left, swinging around for a lick on the hip, and Cookie is longingly gazing out into the yard; she and I had been out earlier, but she can never get enough of her outdoors, except when I haven’t managed to make it warm for her. Only Kelly isn’t in this photo; she’s a little intimidated by the Big Four and while she was mingling a bit she left for her other sunny windowsill.
I do have a number of photos of my cats at the back door, but this is the maximum quantity I captured at one time, and very special to me because it includes Cookie, who was by then in deep mentoring with Mimi, her little grasshopper.
The other recent photo is “Enough Sun for Everyone” and the post is “A Very Special Daily Painting: ‘Forty Five Lives’ by Kimberly Kelly Santini”
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Other daily photos shared on this date
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Bella Got A Basket, 2015
I have to thank the friend who carried a few things to us in this basket and left it here just before Christmas. I had it stashed in a safe place until I could add it to my basket collection and made the happy mistake of setting it on the cabinet by the big north window where Bella spends a lot of time watching birds and hanging out. She immediately possessed it as her basket and began experiencing the world from the vantage of the basket, and she has been killing me with cute ever since.
The basket even has magic. She is still a little shy. If she is in the basket when someone arrives, they simply can’t see her, even if she’s looking directly at them. Or so I would presume by her complete surprise when they remark about what a pretty kitty she is and walk over to pet her.
She has also interacted with the other cats and her basket and I’ll add those photos to the collection as well, but for now I’m sharing the best of the photos I’ve taken in the past two weeks. I would say I’ve been a little preoccupied with Bella in the basket, possibly as preoccupied as Bella herself is with the basket!
She tries a little remodeling on the bow, but that wasn’t as interesting to her as I thought it would be.
She discovered it has convenient little paw holes along the bottom, for when she might need them. Not sure what she might need them for, but then I’m not a little black cat.
But she’s really not too sure about all this photography stuff. Why do I walk all around and talk to her and shake noisy things? Do I think she’s going to fall for that? She’s in her basket and I just don’t exist! “Get a life, human!” Sometimes I wish it was that easy. I certainly don’t want to tell her to stop being so inspiring.
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Such cuties. Basil looks most comfy on the bed.
Basil puts his whole heart into a nap.
Awww, such a cutie you are sweet Mariposa!
I am so lucky to live with her.
Little Mariposa is mighty cute.
Such an amazing post! One that any cat lover would enjoy!
Purrs, Julie
Thank you, Julie, glad you enjoyed it!