Pilfered Picture Project: The Circle

Annabella, one of the many outside cats here, showed up 6/22 with 6 babies.
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When she disappeared on Sunday, 7/4, little did we know she would leave her babies behind. Even more little did I know that it was because they were all so ill (except Leonard). And, sadly, all but Leonard would be dead in just a few days.
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This is Bitsy's hidey spot ~ a watering can on our porch. We thought she just wanted to be alone. In truth, she knew she was not long for this world. She was finding her place to die.
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We never found Ritzy's body (she was a champagne tabby). We wonder if the hawk circling overhead got her. Kitz was gone when we found him, but twin sister, Mitzi, died in my arms. It killed me to know that while I was busy at the doctor, they were busy dying, about 50 feet away from the house. They had climbed into the lillies together, and they were buried together, next to Bitsy. Itsy, on the other hand, I took to the vet to be euthanized. She was too far gone, and it happened so quickly! All the litters of kittens I had hand -raised. It was just so fast, their demise. So fast.
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Leonard, now named Pixel, found a loving home with Tim's brother & his wife. We wish him all the love and luck in the world.
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The circle of life continues, as Husband and I are left to ponder how many barn cats and unloved babies, with so much to give, die each year, alone, under the lillies.

pilfered picture project (week 27): minimalist

the two outside cats we brought from Cincinnati, Patrick & B-dub, were enjoying a late afternoon snack, little realizing they were also the subject of a minimalist sketch, in black and white. at the risk of objectifying them.

Pilfered Picture Project: Nature

I was astounded. Living in such a wide open space, at 10:30 p.m., we could still see so much of the sunset. Summer nights, late sunsets, all beautiful things - the mystery & wonder of Nature.

Pilfered Picture Project: Pairs

These are our new boys, still living at the private rescue. We get all four on the 4th of July weekend (we hope)!

On the left is Valentine. His white mark on his forehead is a perfect heart! And Reno is on the right . . . brothers, inseperable. The only way to tell them apart is that Reno has a question mark where his heart should be!

Say, "Cheese!"

Pilfered Picture Project: Black & White

I could have loaded a million black and white photos. Instead, I just shot a few . . . blurry body parts and crisp car ones.

Pilfered Project: Child's Play

Colton: Child's Play

Market Square Fountain

The Woodlands, TX

Pilfered Project: Ground Level

We hopped in the car to take the girls for a ride. I had not been feeling well, and we both thought the air would do me good.

As we made a 90 degree turn on a road I'd never traveled before, suddenly the River was before us, and a freighter was loading. The perspective made it appear as if the long ship were at Ground Level. Without a camera, just a phone, the picture is not quite as awe-inspiring as it was in person, but the essence is captured here, in the twilight.