Is It Friday, Yet?

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birthday, cat, days, flowers, gift, gratitude, life, spring cleaning, tabby

Another cat photo for this week. Riley posed for me. She has been admiring my bouquet of flowers I received for my birthday. Truthfully, she has chewed on some long wispy, grassy pieces, that attracted her attention. But in my eyes, she can do no wrong. Lol! I no longer live life by wanting Friday to come. My days revolve around, up early with the birds. Saying a prayer of thanksgiving for my five senses that function, and the mobility of my body, that gets me here and there. In days past, I had a job as a teachers assistant, and we all looked forward to Fridays. Since October I have been working part-time in a library and it’s a fun temporary job. We have started feeding the birds, and I love watching them and I am wanting to learn the name of our visitors. We have embarked on some spring cleaning and had Mr. G haul some items off today. Progress has been made, but the mess I created sorting, is an eyesore. Tomorrow is another day…

Weekly Photo Challenge: A Good Match

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brown, cat, challenge, daily post, furry friends, jacket, match, photography

Alley the queen bee of our cat family

She is never amused with my photography sessions

I told her that she was a perfect Match for the Daily Post, Weekly Challenge of a Good Match

She didn’t respond

Pictorial Friday~ Sept. 9

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cat, linky party, nursery, peabea, photography, plants, texture

We stopped at a nursery in a very small country town. This cat was lounging in between plants, I guess trying to take an afternoon siesta.

I am linking to Pictorial Friday, over at sweet Peabea’s. She is the host for this linky party.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra~Ordinary

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animal, cat, daily post, eyes, love, pet, photography, special

Yes, she is!

Linking to the Weekly Photo Challenge of Extra~Ordinary

Inspired

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aliceandmolly, banner, blog, cat, creative, fabric, faith, furry friend, happy, inspiration, pennnt, song, whistle

After visiting the blog, Alice and Molly, I was inspired to tackle a small creative project. I am one to buy fabric and have good intentions, but I lose my enthusiasm easily. This seemed to be simple enough and I had fabric that I thought would work well together. Here is my completed pennant banner.

I think that the bobbin on my sewing machine is not threaded right and it was affecting my sewing, so I went with sewing by hand. I know what I would do differently next time.

While working on this I kept whistling the song, His Banner Over Me.. I bet you didn’t know that I like to whistle..Lol!

She is a sweety!

Thank you Grace for the inspiration!

Summertime

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beauty, bee keeping, belief, blessings, cat, Christianity, creation, creator, earth, faith, God, heat, hollyhocks, honey, job 36:32, nature, seasonal, seasons, simplicity, summertime, thunbergia, understanding

He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark..

God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways,

He does great things beyond our understanding.

                                                                                  Job 36:32, 37:5

His ways are not our ways. As I observe my little sphere of the world I am in awe of the beauty in our little back yard. I hope I don’t tire you out from my backyard tales. But each day I am eager to see what’s new, what flower has bloomed, what vegetable has taken off. I am thankful for these simple adventures in gardening.

Thunbergia~Spanish Eyes

Lovely Hollyhocks

Last summer I was looking at Sunflowers through this window

A little more honey

When its hot its hot… Kind of how I have been feeling..Lethargic..

Maybe a few strawberries will help…

Weekly Photo Challenge:Enveloped

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cat, daily post, envelope, kitten, photo art, photography, protection, rescue, secure, shelter

The cat man and the kitten he rescued

She is a big girl now and ever playful in our backyard

For this challenge check out the Daily Post here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

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cat, challenge, city, daily post, discover, health, learning, life, photo art, photography, portland, processing, texture

The prompt for the Daily Post photo challenge is Express Yourself. I am on a journey of exploration this year. I like processing and using techniques to  transform some of my photos, to give them  a quirky and eclectic look. It fascinates me.. We are still rather new to Oregon, so when we go anywhere my camera is usually with me, and I take pictures as my husband drives.The following are what best express  me at this time in life.

Drive-by photography in the city

Far out photo art with texture and my buddy, Riley, her curiosity and my silliness..

Working on my still life skills

Bird Rescue

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caring, cat, compassion, death, encourage, encouragement, faith, photography, safety, words

This frosty morning as I went out to check up on my favorite cat, I discovered that Riley had a bird pinned down in the clutches of her paws. I immediately went into, “ok”, this is not going to happen mode and told her to drop the bird. Well, not quite in that manner, I may have looked like a wild-eyed woman who was not going to see a bird die. I was able to distract her, probably caused Riley to fear for her life and was more than ready to run inside the house. As the little bird sat on the cement patio, I observed a rapid heart-beat.  I bent down to stroke its little head and it continued to sit there paralyzed by fear. I was not sure what was going on. I decided to move it onto a big flat rock and grabbed one of my husbands worn out cotton gloves for it to sit on. When I picked it up there was a little blood and instead of causing it anymore fear I laid it on top of the glove. I prayed for the bird and spoke words of kindness to it and left it alone in hopes of seeing it fly away. When I went back out to check up on it, it remained on the rock and I told it to go, you are strong and it flew towards our fence.

It sat there for a few minutes and again I coaxed it and said you can fly, you are strong, and at that moment it flew off and away. I don’t know the outcome, but I tried my best to protect and make it feel loved and secure.

Sometimes in life, all we need are words like honey, sweet kind words to remind us that we will get through the muck and the turmoil and that we really can fly..

Forlorn

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b&w, cat, change, dogs, pensive, photography, poem, see, thinking, thought, window

her world

has been turned

upside down

enthusiasm

for running

outside

has waned

no longer eager

to explore,

for four dogs

have moved

in next door

although confined

daily

to a small space

in their world

they wait

hours

to be free

to roam

in their

backyard

which is their home

and she our cat

seems to care

that her own

freedom

is not there

so she looks

forlorn to me

her world turned

upside down

is what she sees.