Life with cats, and other things…
0726/5th November 2025 If it's not snow or orange trees... . 0728 ...there's bound to be another boring sunrise on offer. . 0737 Perhaps I should save some of these for when nights shorten, bringing dawn too early. . And I could save pictures of snow for the height of summer in the hope of … Continue reading Thieves
1507/13th September 2025 The wild turkeys have given us something to look forward to. The daily headcount. Fourteen in the above image. . And here's the other three. Seventeen, all accounted for. There is no way of predicting how long these visits will continue which makes them all the more enjoyable. They are not precisely … Continue reading Headcount
18th March 2022 Brown. The world has gone all brown. Except for a few leftover dirty bits of snow. And the sky was gloomy grey. Did I want to go for a drive? No. In the end I relented and we went to Latham to collect some purchases. This is our least attractive time of … Continue reading Day off?
0820/11th August 2021 It always inspires me when I see a shaft of light penetrating the dark and I always stop to look at rainbows: We see them quite often here. With a heat warning in effect today, I had to search out some refreshing photographs! This was a mullein leaf a few mornings ago, … Continue reading Bright spots
!0th July 2021 "Oh, it's all right!" he cried, "I'm quite alive. Just dust bathing!" This was the baby thrasher in the driveway, on the last day there was actually dust rather than mud! Dust and weeds, as you can well see. But pulling them up is a pointless waste of time. Not that I … Continue reading Poor birdy
Nature provided my topic for today, right on schedule, as in the past two years. On 28th May, 2019, our first Spring in my new home, we were surprised one afternoon to see a white-tailed doe lying on her side, in the field below the house. Unwell that day, I had been lying down and … Continue reading Privileged
6th April 2021 Early clouds that provided a fiery dawn pealed away, leaving us with a clear blue sky from horizon to horizon. A breeze out of the North still provides a slight chill but I'm in no hurry to rush into Summer which will be here soon enough. Mr Sleepy put in an early … Continue reading Faux pas
Remember those tulips that came up in my flower bed? They are so starved for food, they fight each other: Fur flies every day. Birds use it for their nests. Tulips are poisonous to cats, but apparently not to deer. How could I ever be mad at a face like this? Not only hungry, but … Continue reading Now you see them…
In this image I can clearly see the eye of a black cat For my sins, this morning I decided to attempt cleaning those windows which are accessible to me. And remembered why it is that they so rarely get cleaned. It's not that I hate the job. It's that I am horribly incompetent. Pretty … Continue reading Moaning Minnie
How nice it would be to fly free, like a bird. But they have a tough life too. Here's who doesn't have a tough life. Story in pictures: . Can you believe I let the little shit do it? Eat my flowers. Defy me. I did. I'm a useless gardener, but it's nice that I … Continue reading Alternate flower treatments…