I have been spending a lot of time cataloging and organizing pictures, so I don’t have much to say today.
When I don’t have much to say, I let pictures do the talking.
So here are some recent pictures of the little monster, Little Queen Olivia.
She’s been with us for six months now and is as crazy as ever.
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Which is your favorite picture of the little monster?
Zoey the Cool Cat was not happy that I featured a flock of birds in yesterday’s post and she couldn’t catch a single one of them.
I promised her I would feature cats in today’s post, so pictures of cats and cat facts to go with them! Check out the mouseovers, too, because some of them have additional cat facts.
“If you’re feeling insecure about your space in the world, you get a dog because he will always back you up. He’s the insecure man’s best friend. A man with a cat, on the other hand, is secure with himself. He’s sharing his space with a predator.”—John Scalzi, author
“A cat has no words, but by small touchings and buttings and leanings, she shows her love for you, and tries to distract you from your sorrow.”—Pam Brown
For My Human
I thank you for the food you bring
And for my little squeaky thing.
I thank you for your friendly talks
And when you change my little box.
I think you for the naps we share
And putting up with tufts of hair.
I thank you for these things you do.
“A cat isn’t fussy, just as long as you remember it likes its milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and its fish on the blue plate, from which it will take the fish and eat it off the floor.”—Arthur Bridges.
After scolding one’s cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word and has filed it for reference.—Charlotte Gray
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.—Albert Schweitzer
In World War II during the blitz in England, a cat named Bomber could tell the difference between a British Royal Air Force airplane and a German plane from a great distance. When Bomber started to run for the shelter, people quickly learned to follow and get to safety before the bombs fell.—The Cat Lover’s Book of Days, by Peg Silloway, p. 15.
“A kitten is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.”—Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives;
Every wife had seven sacks;
Every sack had seven cats;
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
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I’ve been working for several weeks on a long post about the Desert View Tower about 90 miles east of me…. out in the desert…. could account for the name….
Many decades ago someone carved several animals out of solid granite out there. This is one of them:
It’s my favorite. Feel free to venture a guess as to why.
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Yesterday after chess class, Jim and I went to Vista to visit his mom and her boyfriend. As we arrived we were treated to the start of what I thought was going to be a most spectacular sunset. Indeed it was.
4:29 p.m.
4:39 p.m.
4:49 p.m.
4:52 p.m.
4:58 p.m.
They have two cats that they got in March 2009 after their previous two black cats died within weeks of each other. Buddy, the orange tabby, is a carefree, happy-go-lucky cat. I’ve been able to pick him up, hold him, pet him, since day one. Suzy, a black cat, rarely even let me see her. In those 4½ years, I saw her on top of the refrigerator once, behind the washer and dryer once, under the bed many times, and under the couch or other chairs many other times. Only last March did she allow me to get close enough to even touch her. Last night she was under a chair and let me pet her, which I did for about five minutes. As she got comfortable with my touch, she stuck her head and front legs out from under the chair. I quickly pulled her out the rest of the way, put her on my lap, and proceeded to give her a little love for ten minutes. Then she took off to the garage to hide under the car….
Two pictures of Suzy (black) and Buddy
although not from last night and not by me
This drawer’s not big enough for both of us.
Great sunsets, fun relatives, beautiful cats, and barbecue at Famous Dave’s made for a great, late Thanksgiving meal.
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Long-time followers know that Zoey the Cool Cat likes to sit on the back of my desk chair and watch tennis or golf.
Zoey the Cool Cat watching tennis
She is not interested in football, basketball, or baseball.
I suspect that the balls in those sports are too big.
She prefers small things.
However, today, I found her playing with a soccer ball:
If you saw my recent post on the Zoey the Cool Cat cube, you might remember that I said the cube was really easy to do.
Taking the basics behind the cube, I decided to see if other shapes were just as easy to do.
Yes.
All I did was get a soccer ball from one of my graphics programs and then pasted Zoey the Cool Cat pictures into appropriate places.
It took about five minutes total!
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Yesterday was an extraordinarily clear day here in the San Diego metroplex.
Usually when it is extraordinarily clear I have to work to pay bills.
Yesterday, though, since my Client postponed his home inspection until Monday, I took time to drive all the way over to Point Loma to get my best pictures ever of San Diego:
North Island Naval Air Station and downtown San Diego from Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma
The U.S. Navy ship in the above picture has 53 on its hull. Unfortunately, there are two ships based in San Diego with 53 as their hull number: the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), an Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer, and the USS Mobile Bay (CG-53), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile Cruiser. I believe the one in that picture is the USS Mobile Bay, and I’ll explain why I think that later in this post.
The following picture shows three submarines at the Point Loma submarine base, the most I’ve seen in port at one time.
Point Loma submarine base
Shelter Island, San Diego Bay, and downtown San Diego from Point Loma
Shelter Island, North Island Naval Air Station, and downtown San Diego from Point Loma
See the ship cruising into San Diego Harbor? It does not have a number on its hull. However, the rear of the ship has “John Paul Jones” on it, so it is the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), an Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer.
Since is was only about 15 minutes between the earlier picture with a ship at dock and this picture with the ship sailing merrily into San Diego Harbor, logic suggests that the ship at dock would not/could not get underway in just 15 minutes and get down to where I was, so I’m using logic to say that the ship in the earlier picture is the USS Mobile Bay since the ship in this picture definitely is the USS John Paul Jones.
We have 61 commissioned Navy ships home-ported in San Diego, so keeping track of them for a novice like me can get confusing at times, especially since ships stationed elsewhere on the West Coast often make a pit stop in San Diego on their way to and fro.
Downtown San Diego from Harbor Island
Pelicans were everywhere, and I can never resist taking pictures of them. They are so much fun to watch. By far my favorite bird, outside of the flamingos at the San Diego Zoo, of course.
Pelican at Fisherman’s Landing in San Diego
Look who was peeking out the window when we arrived home:
Zoey the Cool Cat
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Zoey the Cool Cat came into our household on September 20, 2007. Since then I have taken a few billion pictures of the little princess.
I continue taking pictures because she continues to find new ways to entertain me in how she makes herself at home rules her home and twists and turns her little catbody.
Yesterday she was being a bad kitty, meaning that she was going places where she knows she is not allowed, such as up on the piano, on the expensive leather couch, or on top of the refrigerator. She’s actually allowed on top of the refrigerator if she can figure out a way to get up there without an initial stop on the kitchen counter on the way up and a last stop on the same kitchen counter on the way down!
Since she was being so bad, Jim put her on the sofa in the bedroom, which she happily made hers for the rest of the day. I got a great picture of her exhibiting her own symmetry within the symmetry of the sofa:
I think Zoey the Cool Cat’s misbehavior is simply her way of asking for attention, and once she gets it, she’s a happy cat.
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I seem to have been neglecting Zoey the Cool Cat for these past 24 days while I’ve been cleaning and re-organizing the house.
As I was cleaning one of my bookcases earlier, she came and meowed, seeming to say, “You haven’t done Caturday yet. I think you should feature me because I’m so cute and you’ve been neglecting me.”
Here she is.
See that red ring by her head? That’s just one of about 150 red rings that she has. When she wakes me in the morning, the first thing she wants to do is play fetch with a red ring. That goes on for about ten minutes before she’s tuckered out.
She eats after playtime and then takes off to find a nice place — usually a sack — to nap for the next six hours or so. Once the birds start arriving at the feeders around noon, she’s up and in stalking mode for the rest of the day.
I think most of the red rings right now are under the bed, the refrigerator, and the stove, but there still are about 25 in the Cool Cat’s red ring jar.
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Cat pictures from my cat picture collection. Which one is your favorite?
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Camouflage cat at a home inspection
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Another home inspection cat.
Never left the chair during the several hours I was there.
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Two cuties from the 2011 San Diego Cat Fanciers Cat Show
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I think I intruded into this cat’s space.
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Two more cats from the 2011 San Diego Cat Fanciers Cat Show
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The following two pictures show a cat at a home inspection except
that the cat was at the second floor condo across from the condo
I was inspecting. Kitty kept going back and forth between the
two condominiums. Why, I don’t know, but it was fun to watch.
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Ooops! You caught me!
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Following are three feral cats seen
out in the boondocks at home inspections.
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Look at the expressions of those last three cats. It’s pretty obvious to me that I was an alien in their territories and not really welcome. Don’t they know that I love cats?
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If you missed Cat Eyes in a previous post from the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, here it is:
That drawing has a mesmerizing effect on me. And to think it was done by a girl in the fourth grade. Since it has mesmerized me, I thought I would take some cat pictures and photoshop them into black and white drawings. I have included the original photograph for those who don’t like black & white drawings. Some pictures I like, some I don’t. Some drawings I like, some I don’t.
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Number 11 is my favorite picture.
My favorite drawing is #7 followed very closely by #2, then #3.
I’m not sure I’ll ever create something in Photoshop that is as good as what that fourth-grade girl drew by hand, but I’m inspired to experiment and have fun!
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