Daily Photo: On the Cloud
Earlier this month (November 12 to be exact) I finally cleared my worktable, where Sienna’s been spending a lot of time in “her” new space as they’ve all been trying out new nap spots as the weather has been changing—there’s a furnace vent over my worktable in the basement, and the furnace is not far away in the corner, so this table is often quite cozy when the weather’s cool.
I headed down to the basement for the 82nd time that day (it just seems like it…one of the curses of a smaller house is that some things used less often need to be stored away from the room they are used in) and saw Hamlet curled in the top bunk of the basement cat tree where I’d moved it a few days before. Sienna was lounging on my work table and I decided it was time to move the cloud bed back onto the table. I put it on the table and greeted Sienna there and petted her for a bit, then went to the chest freezer and got whatever it was I needed. By the time I turned around Sienna was already in the bed giving herself a pre-nap cleaning. Later I went down to go out the basement door and Hamlet was still where he’d been sleeping, Sienna was curled completely in the cloud bed. That was a happy thing to see.
If you’ve followed me for a while you may remember the piles of cats on the cloud bed on my work table. I picked it up at a thrift shop or someone gave it to me in the 90s, a fleece bean bag with small cubes of pillow cushion foam in it. It’s big enough that it got in the my way wherever I put it, blocking a walkway or access to some office or storage space, so I brought it out occasionally and put it away again when they seemed to get tired of it. Since I don’t use my work table all the time it was the purrfect spot for it back in 2020 when I established my studio space down there. From then on there might be one cat on it at any given time, but when I would go down to work there would be up to six cats! I loved looking at them while I worked, all tangled like puzzle pieces, napping away.
I left it there all along, but after I lost Mimi and the siblings no one else used it. It made me so sad to see it there, suddenly empty after being so full for four years, that I put it away, on top of a pile of rugs on the shelves. I’m so happy it’s in use again, and seeing Sienna in it brings back happy memories now while I’m working.
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From Instagram
“You want to go somewhere in your car? Can’t you see I’m bathing?”
We’ve had several dark and overcast days, and today there is still fog from a heavy fog this morning. But finding community cats at their daily tasks as I run my errands surely brightens up the landscape.
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From Instagram November 2024
When The Creative Cat was offline for a malware intrusion.
NOVEMBER 21
Keeping an eye on the human. Some kitty’s got to do it.
Maybe I’ll rethink this basket bed on my desk.
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From Paths I Have Walked
What’s left behind after the flowers have faded, dried, their petals blown away…new life. The seeds for next year, enough to…
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From Portraits of Animals
Squashes, Still Life in Oil Pastel
From around this date in past years
This is the Life, 2022
Two former feral girls who were not happy with their life conditions certainly now are. A nice quiet room with a soft bed, the sun streaming in the window and the potential for an all-day nap in safety and comfort. Yes, indeed, they are ready for a nap. Sweet dreams, girls.
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From Instagram
Negotiations concerning the top of the wardrobe are underway.
Secret feline agreement.
Working on an inspiration.
From the back yard and beyond
From around this date in past years
Former Feral Fun, 2021
Three kitties of the former feral persuasion, Sienna, Basil and Hamlet, enjoying a sunbath on a coolish day (the same day as yesterday’s photo of Sienna poetically snoozing). I find all the light and shadow very inspiring.
Hamlet may be making a face, or he may frequently have that expression when faced with an unusual situation, as many older kitten ferals with difficulty socializing often react. Of course, he’s now six years old, but still making tiny bits of progress on that path.
Basil is happily bathing his plushy paws and legs, and what could be better than a sun(and)bath for a feral kitten who with his brother was were separated from his mom and found filthy, starved and dehydrated far too young? A bath is the best remedy for everything.
Sienna, while not technically feral but a terrified former socialized kitty, we thought she was a feral kitty for at least six months by her behavior, and we had to trap her, so she gets points for living outdoors while in fear for her life. You can tell by her posture, she was here first. And you can see by yesterday’s photo, she prevailed.
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From Instagram
No Instagrams! I spent the week catching up on work and a very big project, and knew I’d be distracted if I started Instagramming. But I have lots to share of kitties supurrvising me!
From the back yard and beyond
I’ll be sure to catch up on my daily photo blog Today too.
From around this date in past years
Mr. Sunshine’s Crazy Whiskers, 2018
Normally Mr. Sunshine’s whiskers are purrfect. They are very long and gently curved, and he alone has not one single white one. But when he’s watching something waved arund his head that he really, really wants to get, he loses all control.
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What other photos have I shared around this date?
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Wordless Wednesday: Creative Catnap
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Get That Spot Back There, Would You? 2017
It’s so handy when your sibling knows just where you need a little wash. Giuseppe and Mewsette share a lazy afternoon sunbath.
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From Instagram
What a wonderfully bright morning that brought interesting shadows through the back door this morning.
First, Mimi, lost in the shadows.
Then Giuseppe, with interesting patterns.
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What We Did This Weekend, 2016
We had a little cable internet fixup happening yesterday, so much for all the cool posts I’d been planning, but I can at least share what my fine felines were doing yesterday and today while I was trying to catch up with work. Their weekend schedule was not inconvenienced in the least, I’m happy to say.
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What other photos did have I shared around this date?
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Daily Photo: Who’s the Smallest of Them All?
It’s really not a trick of perspective, Mimi really is about half as big as her two largest children. Here she sits between Mewsette and Giuseppe, looking out the basement door into the back yard, probably watching the groundhog devouring everything in sight.
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The Big Plot, 2103
“You watch the stairs, Sunshine—Emeraude’s asleep and I’m going in!”
The never-ending scheming to get a few bites of Emeraude’s food. She’d been defending her territory pretty heartily, but lately she’s not so concerned and looks at them, then continues her bath. Or she’s asleep on the toilet lid, and she’s pretty deaf, and they know that.
Jelly Bean is getting rounder. So is Mr. Sunshine. I have to close the door…
But still they’re cute in their deviousness. Take a look at “Two Great Minds” to see an earlier effort.
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When I Awake, 2012
This is usually what I see, looking through my bedroom door to the landing: Mimi staring intently at me from the top of the wardrobe, beautifully silhouetted by golden morning sunlight. Nice to awaken and smile at beauty.
Her children are torturing me, though, energetically pulling back the covers, tickling my face with their whiskers, gnawing on my fingers and walking all over me. Perhaps Mimi is simply watching to see that they do what they’ve been told. A cat mom supersedes a human mom.
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Morning Kitties Are Like Morning Coffee, 2011
They don’t need to do anything, all they need to do is sit there and they awaken my creative senses and make me smile.
Mewsette, Giuseppe and Jelly Bean pose on one of the last warm mornings while the leaves are still green and bright. Something to remember until next year.
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That sure looks like a cozy cloud!