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[1CatOverTheLine]

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foxxycat - I absolutely Love that bicolour Iris; your place looks fabulous! Since you have all that energy, send a little my way, willya?

The day here was perfect as well, and we had the best sunset I've seen in many weeks. Ephemeral as the dickens, but for those few minutes, it was mesmerising!

 

[foxxycat]

This morning I had a barnicle stuck to me. We never made it outside to water. Didnt get up till 5:15qm. Normally i get up at 4ish to 430.

She is so cuddly now!

I dont know about energy 1CatOverTheLine ... pretty beat myself!

 

[Jcatbird]

1CatOverTheLine The sky is just beautiful. I dearly love sunset and sunrise. The changing of the light and colors gives endless variety. The view is never the same twice. This is a wow photo. You have to be there at just the right moment to catch it. This is a very positive view!

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

1CatOverTheLine The sky is just beautiful. I dearly love sunset and sunrise. The changing of the light and colors gives endless variety. The view is never the same twice. This is a wow photo. You have to be there at just the right moment to catch it. This is a very positive view!

Jcatbird - Thanks, but that's one of about eighty photos taken over the span of a few minutes, and the sky changes dramatically in that short period. Roll clouds often form over the river, materialising seemingly instantaneously, and then evanescing almost as quickly as the temperature changes at sunset.



It's as fine a day here as might be hoped for, and after three years of looking very ho-hum, the Peonies at the west end of the screen of Lilacs have finally come into their own. Saint Augustine's remarks in De Ccivitate Dei concerning, "the palette of the Creator," would seem not to have lost their legitimacy over the course of these sixteen hundred years.

 

[Furballsmom]

Hi everyone, major multitasking going on; carpets are clean, house is dusted, cat is content, strawberry rhubarb pie in the oven with an apple one right behind it, AND my positive is the hummies are still feeding and mzzz bumblebee let me get a couple of photos. Later, for another post and pics, all

 

[ileen]

Beautiful photos! Despite the rain washing away my plans Sunday, I got a lot accomplished this weekend. Luciano was very well behaved according to the cleaner & now it's up to me to keep my apartment this clean.

 

[Lari]

Lelia is adjusting to our new home. She's lying on the bed right next to me right now and while I should go over to the old place and get more stuff and be useful, it's hard to leave.

I'm so glad I took the day off. I needed this.

 

[raysmyheart]

Lari , I am always so glad to see Lelia, whether she is watching TV, decorating a gingerbread house (like she did in the Christmas photo contest) or looking so content and very pretty, like in this recent photo! I am glad she is adjusting to her new home.

1CatOverTheLine , I absolutely love Peonies and yours here are just wonderful. They certainly are not looking ho-hum this year, as you said they were previously! Absolutely beautiful blooms and so many. Their fragrance reminds me so much of the beach roses.

I took the road that passes the pond on the way home and got this photo for you all to see. I hope everyone is enjoying a good day.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Realized I hadn't posted on this thread in a few days. It's hot, my neighbors have moved, and there isn't anything exciting going on to speak of, but I always feel PAWSitive when I'm on TCS! Tarifa is curled on her cat blanket beside me, Elvis has been tunneling, and Baby Su is undoubtedly making sure the master bedroom is free of any possible negativity. Did a lot of work today, and almost ready to log off for my last helping of chchanna aloo masala over basmati rice, a cabbage salad, grapefruit, and iced coffee. Thanking everyone for sharing beautiful pictures and upful content!

After catching up on this thread, 1CatOverTheLine those are beautiful Oriole and Indigo Bunting pix! We had an oriole feeder up in the Mojave and I was able to enjoy their colorful beauty for the first time in my life. A neighbor told me they'd come here, too, if I bought nyjer seed, but that's fantastically expensive here, so no orioles. We don't have buntings here, but we DO have the amazing wild conures.

 

[Furballsmom]

Hi - I'm back, just like I promised

Lari it was fantastic to see your post and picture as updates after your move indicating that you have a feline who's feeling more comfortable!!

AND, by the way, you can post in this thread about any darn thing, as long as it's positive it'll fly

Speaking of flying, I believe this was mom-lady bumble. There's an absolutely HUGE bumblebee working over the flowers but I didn't have a photo opportunity, plus with an insect of that size - it could carry off my camera if it wanted to LOL!

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

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I took the road that passes the pond on the way home and got this photo for you all to see. I hope everyone is enjoying a good day.

R raysmyheart - This is a wonderful photo. I know at least three people who read this thread who wish they were right there at this moment!

We had an oriole feeder up in the Mojave and I was able to enjoy their colorful beauty for the first time in my life. A neighbor told me they'd come here, too, if I bought nyjer seed, but that's fantastically expensive here, so no orioles. We don't have buntings here, but we DO have the amazing wild conures.

tarasgirl06 - No matter where you live in this world, you have the pleasure of bird-watching, free of change - and I envy you your wild Conures. Always better than a movie, but never quite as much fun as watching cats.




A lovely day here today, with thunderstorms predicted for Wednesday - and we need 'em!
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[Jcatbird]

A beautiful glow. The big oak is in silhouette by the final light of the day. I think it makes for a very peaceful feeling. The breeze was barely blowing in the Spanish moss. A very nice evening!

 

[foxxycat]

Good morning everyone! I love the photos! Makes me want to stay outside as much as I can.

Petunia growing up against the rock.

I didnt have to water the plants that were watered Sunday. They were still damp but I gave the tunias here a drink anyways.

I have a rose bush I need to put into the ground tonight but haven't figured out where to put it.

I went to a lady's house last night and bought some vintage romances and stayed up late last night reading one.

I never read any of these 1970s ones as I always prefered current publications but now I want to try a few.



I woke up with a barnacle on my chest again. She kept licking my hands to wake me up and purring away. I love it when our cats snuggle!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

 

[raysmyheart]

Hello paw-sitive posters and paw-sitive cats of the paw-sitive posters! Happy Tuesday from R raysmyheart and Speedy.

Speedy and I had a nice walk in the yard last night. When she's had enough of the outdoors she starts running for the front door with me following her on the leash, it is quite a sight! Here she is waiting for this favorite shrub of mine to bloom.

 

[tarasgirl06]

foxxycat What a sweet barnacle! They just don't get any sweeter than that! *And that looks like a very interesting read, kind of a la "Mad Men" judging by the title and illustration, or am I way off?*
R raysmyheart What an adorable walking partner you have there. Happy Tuesday to you two, too!
1CatOverTheLine Oh, you haven't lived until you've had a big flock of conures roost in your municipal trees, setting up a cacophony fit to wake the zombies!

 

[raysmyheart]

@tarasgirl, I would love to hear these wild Conures singing or would it be louder than I bargained for? Seriously, I do love my days off when I'm in the house and hear birds singing in the trees in the woods surrounding my yard.

I do know what you mean by a group of birds singing together and getting quite loud, however. Around here, at first light, if you are up around 4:30 am, one solitary bird will put forth the first call. (Or maybe you are awakened by this first call ). The call is dainty and delicate. Then a second sweet feathered Creature will join in. Then a third. The music then becomes so loud and busy that it just makes me burst out laughing, every time! I ask myself how this chorale formed from one call so dainty!

Here are some feathered friends I visited at a local pond, come up on shore to sun, I think.

Swans in the foreground, ducks in the background. The baby swans legs are still short so their tummies get a little dirty when they climb the path they have worn, up the hill. Mama swan's feathers stay clean because of her long legs.

Here are the same sweet little swans about a month ago, maybe.

They are getting nice and strong, these precious ones.

Have a great day everyone! At work this evening, I will ask my boss if I can snap a photo of the sunset from my workplace to show you all. We get the most beautiful ones there, where I work.

 

[tarasgirl06]

@tarasgirl, I would love to hear these wild Conures singing or would it be louder than I bargained for? Seriously, I do love my days off when I'm in the house and hear birds singing in the trees in the woods surrounding my yard.

I do know what you mean by a group of birds singing together and getting quite loud, however. Around here, at first light, if you are up around 4:30 am, one solitary bird will put forth the first call. (Or maybe you are awakened by this first call ). The call is dainty and delicate. Then a second sweet feathered Creature will join in. Then a third. The music then becomes so loud and busy that it just makes me burst out laughing, every time! I ask myself how this chorale formed from one call so dainty!

Here are some feathered friends I visited at a local pond, come up on shore to sun, I think.
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Swans in the foreground, ducks in the background.

Beautiful pic -- thank for sharing! I went to a lake once where there were lots of species of ducks and geese -- it was quite amazing seeing their variety and the geese were very good guardians of the place!
Oh, anyone who's heard a flock of conures would not call what they do "singing" by any stretch of the imagination! If you can think of dozens of the loudest, ear-piercing screeches you can imagine, all at once, then you've pretty much conjured up conure vocalizations. A lot of people dislike them intensely because they are so noisy. I love them. They're descendants of birds who escaped from the cage bird trade (or in some cases, because these birds live a long time, they ARE escaped cage birds.) There's a book written about these birds, THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL by Mark Bittner (ISBN 0-7394-6485-X) which was also adapted to film. I bought this book several years ago when the parrots were mainly up in the Bay area; since then, I first saw them over in Monrovia, and they are now here!

 

[raysmyheart]

tarasgirl06 , thank you for telling me about the conures! I do love all birds!

Jcatbird , I would love to see the Spanish moss and here I can "travel" through the wonderful photos and stories here. Your photo really paints a wonderful mood and has very beautiful lighting!

Furballsmom , did you say strawberry rhubarb pie?? Mmmmmm. Yum.

A pawsitive is that the weather is purr-fect here today. Sunny, warm and a beautiful refreshing breeze all day.

 

[tarasgirl06]

tarasgirl06 , thank you for telling me about the conures! I do love all birds!

Jcatbird , I would love to see the Spanish moss and here I can "travel" through the wonderful photos and stories here. Your photo really paints a wonderful mood and has very beautiful lighting!

Furballsmom , did you say strawberry rhubarb pie?? Mmmmmm. Yum.

A pawsitive is that the weather is purr-fect here today. Sunny, warm and a beautiful refreshing breeze all day.

Awww, Furballsmom and R raysmyheart -- that brings back a very happy memory. My mom loved sweets and was very good at making them. Sometimes we used to as a family go out to eat to this restaurant that specialized in bakery stuff, and a couple of times, I had strawberry rhubarb cheesecake, I think it was. It was amazing! and very memorable.
R raysmyheart Glad to share something PAWSitive -- it's a fascinating subject, reading how these birds have not only survived so far from their homes, but actually thrived!

 

[neely]

I haven't posted on this thread for a bit due to being preoccupied with family health problems. However, since Carleton had a "spa" day today I wanted to post a pawsitive pic of his neat and tidy coiffure.