Today’s pictures are totally random. Some have been sitting in my “Shady Cove” file where I toss pictures that are of the back yard or something in the house that I want to share at some point and just never got around to sharing. Probably pictures for the next few weeks will be a random mixture, since we’ve got no kittens at the moment.
I don’t think I ever shared this, but I used this picture of Francois to make a watermark that I thought I might put on pictures, but if I leave it big it (obviously) obscures too much of the picture I’m watermarking, and if I make it too small, you can’t really see it. I did put it on the back of the Les Chatons and Half Pint cards. Just looking at it makes me smile. Oh, that boy.
Top 9 pics on Instagram in 2019 (I’m not sure how they determine that, since there’s most of a month left to the year, but whatever.) You can click on the picture to see it larger over at Flickr. Don’t ask me to find the original pictures and link to them, that would take forever (I expected to see more Half Pints pics, honestly.)
I got a Groupon several months ago for Printerpix, wherein I could print a picture (actually, it was for three pictures) on metal. I ordered this picture of Stefan in the prairie bonnet, and Fred liked it so much he had me hang it in his office.
I also printed this bee butt picture, which I took when we lived at Crooked Acres. I love the way it came out.
(I apparently haven’t taken a picture of the third picture I had printed – a shot of the moon, also taken while we lived at Crooked Acres.)
Pretty female Cardinal in the back yard.
Fred took this picture in September. I love hummingbirds.
Hummingbird with attitude.
Earl the Skwerl with attitude.
This picture must be from the summer of 2018 because after that summer I didn’t try to grow romaine again (we don’t get enough sun in the back yard during the summer), and that’s Stefan checking things out. Awww, Stefan.
Also the summer of 2018 because that’s Maxi. Awww, Maxi. (For the newer readers, we lost both Maxi and Stefan in the summer of 2018.)
Again, early summer (possibly even spring) of 2018, because while we still have Jake (who is in the middle of the picture checking out the hanging flowers), I learned that flowers don’t do well hanging from the screened porch because they get no sun at all except for the most brutal mid-day sun, and the flowers I’ve tried aren’t happy with that treatment. Also, the tree on the right side of the picture has been cut down (it was in rough shape.)
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Previously
2018: Tank and LoJack ready to nap – with LoJack in mid-flop.
2017: Tour of Shady Cove.
2016: Nothing personal, Archie, but you could use some work on your nap time companion skills. Step one: more snuggling, less personal space.
2015: But Alice is like “::FUME:: Look at her standing there in the middle of the room LIKE SHE OWNS THE PLACE.”
2014: The ear of (slight) annoyance.
2013: More attitude from the Carm.
2012: They sniffed around wildly for a while, and then decided it was okay, this strange room where (they seemed to think) they’d never been before.
2011: Gracie is a good watchdog.
2010: No entry.
2009: Look at him, looking so innocent when he was JUST biting that tail right in front of him and making his sister cry!
2008: No entry.
2007: “How ’bout you rub the belly instead?”
2006: Noelle with troll hair.
2005: No entry.
Those are some amazing pictures! Am I the only one who saw wheels in Earl’s picture- to me it looks like he’s riding a really strange vehicle.
Awww Stefan and Maxi! Still love seeing them!
Those are a great set of pictures; I especially love Francois’ dorky school picture.
Aw, love seeing the pictures of the ones who are gone. I miss them too. You really have awesome cats!
Bee butt, omg! too funny!
Wow, the hummingbird and cardinal pictures are amazing!
I’m a little surprised those suction cups are still holding the feeder to the glass. We have several Earl the Skwerl types here and it’s like a circus out there with how they leap and climb around trying to get to our bird feeders!
Bee Butt ha ha ha
I’m guessing that tree you cut down was the one that turned into Jake’s throne (https://www.love-and-hisses.com/7-12-18/)? So cool to see the backyard and house from the cats-eye (ha!) view.
Francois grin + scripty watermark would make a great sticker for closing envelopes. And so would Stompers “not judging you” pic, come to think of it. Oooh, and I’d love to close Xmas card envelopes with that one of Jake with the Santa hat… Does CafePress batch up object types, like you can’t add stickers to the offered kitchenware without also adding cards, notebooks, and other stationery-type items? Crud, now I want a Stompers notebook. (I work in a cat-friendly office, can you tell? Someone is off right now and wrote on her in/out whiteboard, “Getting meowied – out ’til January 6!”)
I, too, love the sweet little grin on Francois face!! Received your holiday card and love it, especially the clever reference to the Frankie Loves Hollywood hit in the 80’s!
I RECEIVED MY CARD. THANK YOU, IT HAS “PRIDE OF PLACE”. All in caps because I hadn’t realized that Chester had walked on the keyboard !
My vote is for the smiling kitten. I can’t spell the name! but that is why I got the cards with his photo.
Love that smiling face !
Do you offer prints of some of your photos, as in CafePress? That bee butt is fantastic.
Wow — it’s been 2 years since you moved from Crooked Acres? Time flies, but that just seems crazy!
Aww, Little Stefan on the Prairie. I don’t blame Fred for wanting that to hang in his office, heck I would hang it in my office.