Friday Cat Blogging from the LPS

This is Lucy.

Friday cat (and fat) blogging

Well, another Friday rolls around and my blogging is seriously diminished right now. At least I have cats. I also captured an interesting person seated on a fire hydrant. It doesn't look comfortable.

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Sorry to have taken so long to put this picture up. I've been busy torturing this cat for hours trying to get him to confess to eating my cheese. He kept denying it. Luckily, after several hours of dunking him in freezing water, threatening him with dobermans, and other "intensive techniques," he broke. He admitted not only that he ate the cheese, but that he was part of a conspiracy with the other three cats. Thankfully, now, my cheese is safer, and so is the world.For more expert information on torture, I recommend: www.whitehouse.gov

Friday cat blogging from the Left Paw Society

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Well, it's been a long year. My mother passed away two weeks ago after a long bout with cancer and blogging has been far from my priorities recently with family, work and other bits of life taking precedent over bloggerly matters.

I've been meaning to write about my mother, an amazingly talented person, and one of the purest good souls. I just don't feel like like writing it right now. Anyway, you know: I owe you much, mom, and so do many more whose lives you've touched. I leave it at that until I can find an elegant way to say it.

So, here is a shot of Biscuit looking at the moon.

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Deux chats endormis.

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Friday Cat Blogging from the LPS (Left Paw Society)

Friday cat blogging from the LPS

Marathon and Biscuit, the latter was shot on some old Polaroid 3000ISO film I have lying around. Hard to use that stuff except for some very specific purposes, but I thought I'd give it a try here even though it's no match for slower films.

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Tuna

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Staring at a puddle, or the sky in the puddle, or something. Besides the NSA, of course, who really knows what cats think?

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

Friday Cat Blogging from the Left Paw Society

And, yes, with some other critters I've captured on camera this week. Includingthe common House Finch. Of course, I didn't think this bird was common at all. In fact, when I saw its colors, I thought maybe I had seen the elusive Red-Ringed California Fly Swatter or something. Alas, it was but the humble House Finch. I wish I could have gotten closer, but
the bird was on the top wire of a telephone post. For me, it was quite a moment. As I approached, steathily moving in the shadows of the alley and snapping pictures as quickly as my nervous, trembling hands would let me, my avian friend turned away, beckoned the sound of a distant call. At that point my subject, obviously keen to respond, took a deep breath, ruffled its feathers, and spoke back. While I am loathe to translate from Common House Finch, I think the bird said "Yes, I do" and took flight. I never saw it again.

Finally, a warbler of some sort, I think. Orthinologists of the world, correct me.

This little--tiny actually--bird has been all over the garden eating aphids off the roses. Nature is reallly quite amazing if you let it be.

Friday Cat Blogging, Left Paw Society

Old polaroids: I like how the film is stripped away, and development is uneven, and the colors are untrue, all of which heighten, paradoxically, the reality of memory.
Has anybody ever noticed the overuse of simile in greeting cards? I have.

Friday Cat Blogging

Here's a picture of my cat

Did I fool you? That's not actually a cat, it's the big horn sheep we saw while in Joshua Tree last weekend. Cool, huh? For the cat lovers, here's Biscuit hunting down a Republican:

Cat Blogging...

Ok. I never cat blog. We have four cats and it would take a full-time business to post the pictures of them doing interesting things. But, it's Friday and I'm just sitting around waiting for another Bush scandal and, well, I feel like cat blogging. So here goes: this is a picture of Mara*** (*** to protect the innocent) taken early one morning. Mara*** spends a lot of time on the roof.