Picture Of The Day May 2023:
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Wednesday May 31, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Sugar is a cat that lives next door. This is her in 2009 when she was a kitten.
Today's Quote:
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
Picture Taken: April 2021.
Tuesday May 30, 2023 Pic of the Day.
It looks like Leon has a big smile on his face.
Today's Quote:
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.” - Al-Ghazzali
Picture Taken: May 2009.
Monday May 29, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Andi on my lap from 2 years ago.
Today's Quote:
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” - Harry Truman, 1950.
Picture Taken: April 2021.
Sunday May 28, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Dexter is quite lovable, but pure trouble as well.
Today's Quote:
“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ” - Ann Landers
Picture Taken: March 2018.
Saturday May 27, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Cat's eyes are so interesting.
Today's Quote:
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Picture Taken: March 2018.
Friday May 26, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Dexter, though a lot of trouble, can be fun.
Today's Quote:
“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.” - Edward Abbey (Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast)
Picture Taken: March 2018.
Thursday May 25, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Margarita with Dexter in the background.
Today's Quote:
“Always know and remember that you are more than your physical body." - Robert Monroe
Picture Taken: March 2018.
Wednesday May 24, 2023 Pic of the Day.
The "Sunroom Gang". That is what I called these 4 who used to hang out and move around together. Sadly, this behaviour stopped when Leon (orange tabby) died in August of 2018. I still have many fond memories of watching them move en masse from one room to another. I am so very happy that I have many pictures of these 4 together. This is the only time in my life that I witnessed house cats acting like a pride of lions.
Today's Quote:
“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.” - DaShanne Stokes
Picture Taken: March 2018.
Tuesday May 23, 2023 Pic of the Day.
I used to live in an area that got huge amounts of snow. This picture shows how I winterized the cat pen attached to the house. This picture was taken in early December of 2008.
Today's Quote:
“He whom the gods wish to destroy, they first of all drive mad.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Masque of Pandora)
Picture Taken: December 2008.
Monday May 22, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Another picture of Cornelius in 2003. What a great cat he is. I still think of him in the present tense as I feel only his body is gone.
Today's Quote:
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” - Lau Tzu
Picture Taken: June 2005.
Sunday May 21, 2023 Pic of the Day.
20 years ago this month! I'm on a Cornelius roll lately, which is not surprising since I dreamt of him a few days ago. I have over 100 dreams of him recorded since he passed in 2011. I still miss him, and think of him every day. I don't get sad about it like I used to for the first 5 years after he passed, but I've become more reverential.
Today's Quote:
“If the government is prying and meddling, there will be constant infraction of the law. Is the government corrupt? Then uprightness becomes rare, and goodness becomes strange.” - Lau Tzu
Picture Taken: June 2005.
Saturday May 20, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Another picture of Cornelius and Felemur in 2005.
Today's Quote:
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Picture Taken: June 2005.
Friday May 19, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Cornelius and Felemur enjoying a May day in 2005.
Today's Quote:
"We now return our souls to the creator,
as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness.
Let our chant fill the void
in order that others may know.
In the land of the night
the ship of the sun
is drawn by the grateful dead."
-- Egyptian Book of the Dead
Picture Taken: May 2005.
Thursday May 18, 2023 Pic of the Day.
I looked back 3 years to May of 2020. The cats conveyed the impression of calmness and normality then. Patty and Norton appear to be meditating before bed in this picture. However, I seem to remember people all over were acting very strangly at this time, so it is nice to confirm from this photo that cats are immune to mass hysteria.
Today's Quote: “The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.” - Ludwig von Mises
Picture Taken: May 2020.
Wednesday May 17, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Dexter loves going for rides. Whether it be on a chair with wheels, a wheelbarrow, etc. This is an image capture from a short movie I took of him being wheeled around. He never gets sick of it and jumps out - you have to go until you're tired.
Today's Quote: “I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.” - Amy Lee
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Tuesday May 16, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Dexter in the pen, Andi in the wagon.
Today's Quote: “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.” - H.L. Mencken
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Monday May 15, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Andi waiting for me to come back to bed. She likes to sleep under the covers beside me.
Today's Quote: “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” - Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Picture Taken: February 2022.
Sunday May 14, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Andi enjoying a beautiful spring day under the Manitoba Maple tree.
Today's Quote: "Happiness? The color of it must be spring green." - Frances Mayes
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Saturday May 13, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Margarita loves the sun. I mention this all the time, but Margarita has very interesting eyes.
Today's Quote: “Sunshine is my quest." - Winston Churchill
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Friday May 12, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Andi enjoying a beautiful mid-April day outside.
Today's Quote: “Censorship is the last bastion of those without an argument" - El Gato Malo
Picture Taken: April 2023.
Thursday May 11, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Dexter and Daisy in baskets with Avensby behind on the cat tree.
Today's Quote: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Wednesday May 10, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Margarita gives the feeling of a panther here. Her very, very short coat looks amazing.
Today's Quote: "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws," - Plato.
Picture Taken: August 2019.
Tuesday May 09, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Avensby the tuxedo and Leon closest to the camera with Chessie, Andi & Norton behind, plus Elly-May by the fireplace.
Today's Quote: “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” - Marcus Aurelius
Picture Taken: May 2017.
Monday May 08, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Avensby the tuxedo and Norton in a box. Avensby was 8 months old here, and Norton was 20 months old.
Today's Quote: “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl
Picture Taken: December 2016.
Sunday May 07, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Sweet & silly Norton sleeping on my lap.
Today's Quote: “I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.” - Cato
Picture Taken: October 2019.
Saturday May 06, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Avensby inside the asperagus box, Norton on top.
Today's Quote: “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” - Epictetus
Picture Taken: October 2019.
Friday May 05, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Margarita on my lap. She is actually happy here, but her eyes don't convey that message. Margarita has always had a "look" in her eyes.
Today's Quote: “If anyone can refute me - show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective - I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.” - Marcus Aurelius
Picture Taken: November 2019.
Thursday May 04, 2023 Pic of the Day.
These two are sisters from the same litter in 2008. I've had them since they were about 6 weeks old. The one on the left is Elly-May and the much bigger sister Daisy on the right.
Today's Quote: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Viktor Frankl
Picture Taken: April 2023.
Wednesday May 03, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Avensby on the top shelf of the cat tree on a scratching log I made.
Today's Quote: “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” - Epictetus
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Tuesday May 02, 2023 Pic of the Day.
Fiona looks really good with her haircut. She also quite likes having short hair. This is the first time I've cut a cat's hair with electric cat clippers, and I think I did OK.
Today's Quote: “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca
Picture Taken: May 2023.
Monday May 01, 2023 Pic of the Day.
I took this picture this morning. Norton likes to sleep like this, but often when I try to get a picture, he wakes up and moves. He moved just after I took this picture.
Today's Quote: “If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” - Marcus Aurelius
Picture Taken: May 2023.
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