Daily Photo: Three Formerly Feral Foster Cats
Three cats. Just happens to be three formerly feral foster cats, Bella, Ophelia and Hamlet. From November 29.
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Studio Time
From November 21.
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Quality Control Cats, 2015
You can be sure your orders are correct and properly packed and labeled with this kind of vigilance from my quality control cats. Mr. Sunshine and Jelly Bean inspect the contents of this order, and below they are indicating that something is terribly wrong. Purrhaps they don’t know I still need to fold the notecards?
Apparently this order meets with the boys’ approval, but Mewsette finds something she doesn’t care for. I think I know what it is. I trimmed down a piece of cardboard to support the print in the packaging. I had intended to use the edge of it that she had interpreted with a delicate pattern of toothmarks. I trimmed it off instead.
This is also the part where they add the free cat hair.
Of course, the boss has the final say. She’s been sleeping in the basket all this time.
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Shared on Instagram/Facebook today.
Someone was a great help in the studio last night. Mimi even managed to get caught up on her beauty sleep in her stack of magic baskets because she didn’t have to watch me all night long. Little Simon is going to be a great help in his forever home!
And Basil loves his basket!
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Cardboard Inspiration
I guess if I can have a creative and productive day, my felines can too. My feline cardboard interpretation artist was inspired by the box I’d intended to use for sorting orders.
“Get to work so we can get to our nap.”
Large Model Cat Sorter, avg. capacity three adult house panthers, suitable as a supervision platform or temporary nap area (product will deteriorate when overfilled with reclining models), purr-fect for those busy days when you plan to make a mess of your own without the participation of creative paws. I put this box lid on the table to sort things into, left the room and came back to find that its purpose had been modified.
A misguided decision on my part. Glad my felines could set me straight on that point.
But it didn’t take Mewsette very long to feel the cardboard had something to say and then interpret it in her unique method. The cardboard flew as she bit into the edge and tossed the bitten bits off onto the table top. Soon, one of our familiar Western Pennsylvania hilltops appeared in green, in silhouette. She was creating a landscape. Reading my mind purrhaps?
Really great work requires a resting period, and contemplation. Mewsette settled in to hear if the cardboard had any more to say. Apparently it did not.
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Why Mimi and I did not visit the back yard yesterday afternoon.
The deer came back for a visit, two does and a yearling. I saw them from the kitchen door and hurried to the basement door to be on their level, but the screen is still in the screen door and it was so overcast and dark by that time that most of the photos didn’t come out well. Above they are sampling my compost pile. Below is the photo I wanted because the little one is looking right at me.
Cute to see three deer butts.
And the girls are very pretty.
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Daily Cat Photo: Two Beans, 2014
Jelly Bean practices poses before the mirror in the bathroom to choose the right selfie. After all, it wouldn’t be Bean without a mirror in it somewhere!
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I’z On Yr Table Blockin Yr Lite, 2012
Mimi sez: IZ ON YR TABLE, BLOCKIN YR LITE.
When Mimi wants attention she wants it when she wants it, not after I’ve finished my silly project and washed my brushes and cleaned up. So while I was helpless with glue-covered hands and brush she sat dangerously near a glue-covered block of wood and paper, looking up at me, directly in the path of the work light I had swung over this spot on my work table. For variety she gave vigorous face rubs to everything around including the industrial-sized bottle of Elmer’s glue you see at the right, which she knocked over onto the floor with one particularly fervent face rub, about 42″ down from this waist-high table; it’s a good thing Elmer doesn’t move too fast or splash. A certain human was not pleased. Mimi was embarrassed. But as soon as I cleaned up we got back to what we’d been doing.
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Baby, It’s Cold in Here, 2011
Ooh, the temperature dropped and we even saw a few snow flurries today! I didn’t have the kitty keep-warm lamps on at my desk, so they had to improvise on the oversized green sh0pping bag that really is underneath them all.
The view above is one from the angle at which you cold see that there were decidedly five black cats in the pile; note Mimi on top of the pile. Well, she is the mom, and this is after she did a little clean-up on each of their faces and ears. The job of a mom cat is never done, but they do keep her warm and make a nice soft bed when they all pile up like that.
The photo below is what I saw when I turned around from my desk. All was quiet but I had a sense of a large gob of cats behind me. Sure enough, there they were. My poor camera, photographing these piles of black cats kind of blows its little electronic cells because it can’t find anything to focus on. It blows my little brain cells too because I can only focus on them.
It’s good to see the Bean back in everyone’s good graces. If you can’t get enough of seeing five black cats piled up, or four or three, see this collection of images of Mimi’s Children, and Mimi herself, not always piled up, but always together.
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Somehow I Think I’m Being Watched, 2010
And indeed I was being carefully scrutinized by these three as I filled my bird feeders on the deck facing the lovely sunny morning. More kitties were farther back, hidden in the shadows, but Jelly Bean, Cookie and Mimi made sure I didn’t slip away as I took some time to photograph the frosty morning.
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From “Today”
“What Is the Goal?” from The Light in the Darkness
I saw this from a distance, a ribbon of winding road before me and many hills and curves between me and the tree, and drove until I found it. Click the photo for more of the story.
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Sunday: Essays, Pet Loss, Poetry, The Artist’s Life
Monday: Adoptable Cats, TNR & Shelters
Tuesday: Rescue Stories
Wednesday: Commissioned Portrait or Featured Artwork
Thursday: New Merchandise
Friday: Book Review, Health and Welfare, Advocacy
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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