Life with cats, and other things…
31st March 2026 The last day of March brought us a very special treat. A week or so ago, I posted pictures of the wild turkeys that visited one afternoon. I was thrilled to see them, but Grant was not here, so every afternoon we kept watch hoping for a repeat and five days later... … Continue reading A fan dance
0633/25th march 2026 The gloom of early March was predicted to continue, but happily this has proved to be at least partly inaccurate. Sombre at times, certainly, cold and windy, but with cheerful sun breaks. . Rosy skies were decorated by impressive contrails. . Wednesday evening, more contrails painted patterns across the sky. . Without … Continue reading Thursday thrill
1848/17th March 2026 "A suncatcher or light catcher is a small reflective, refractive, and/or iridescent ornament." or: . 0725/18th March 2026 A hillside that catches the light of dusk and dawn. Those particular trees are a light magnet. . I like sun-catchers! We have had so many cats depart that we ran out of space … Continue reading Suncatcher
0735/26th October 2025 October 26th brought - among other things - another hard frost that furnished a post script for my earlier mention of late-blooming flowers and several other images. . While perhaps I'm not yet ready for cold weather, frosty mornings are so beautiful. . Stark, maybe, but aesthetically pleasing - to me anyway. … Continue reading Post script
0640/11th October 2025 The transition of seasons always causes me to sigh. What will there be to photograph as seasonal subjects disappear? What will there be to post about if I have no images? Yet I know full well there will always be a subject worth photographing. Though I've given up on close-ups of Venus. … Continue reading Transition
1st October 2025 October began with the return of the girls. After enjoying daily visits from seventeen wild turkeys, they abrupbtly appeared to have found greener pastures. We never take wild animals for granted, but we miss them when they suddenly stop showing up. Of course, there's no way of telling whether they come by … Continue reading The seventeen
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
1805/18th August 2025 . Ordinarily, I would not be pleased by the arrival of sixteen unexpected visitors. But those who came calling on Sunday were not ordinary. When we first lived here, we were on their route and came to count on seeing them periodically, but in recent years we seemed to have fallen out … Continue reading A visit
3rd July 2025 . Just over twenty-four hours after I accidentally deleted a whole selection of photographs, I had a chance to re-take them as we traversed the very same route. The light will never be the same twice of course and yesterday was certainly quite different. . We set off under a grey sky … Continue reading Re-take
0638/14th April 2025 . Yesterday morning's misty dawn was captivating. . . . It was a good way to start the day, though a quick scan of news headlines soon put a damper on my elation. . Most days I can shake off a bad mood but yesterday it took up residence, possibly because of … Continue reading The Boss