Picture Of The Day February 2024:
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Thursday February 29, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This year is a leap year, and today is the leap day. My most "leapy" cat is Avensby for sure. This picture was taken after she was flying around the place, leaping from spot to spot. Even as she is resting, she looks appropriately like a flying squirrel.
Today's Quote: “So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping Village.” - H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Wednesday February 28, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Norton in the cat pen coming over to see what I'm up to. This picture captures an aspect of his looks I have not seen often, he even looks a bit like a different personality here.
Today's Quote: I’d rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable. - Susane Colasanti
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Tuesday February 27, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This was taken around the time of Andi's 15th birthday last September. She is dozing off in the catio with the warm sun on her.
Today's Quote: “Sleep is God. Go worship.” - Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Picture Taken: September 2023.
Monday February 26, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Another picture of Mumma-Puma and her son Leon. This time when Leon was about 4 month old, and Mumma-Puma was 4 to 5 years old. I had just taken them and Leon's 4 sisters in almost 2 months prior to this picture.
Today's Quote: "Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air." - Pablo Neruda
Picture Taken: January 2009.
Sunday February 25, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Mumma-Puma and her son Leon in the sunroom. Both are gone now, but they were very close.
Today's Quote: "One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." - John Green
Picture Taken: July 2018.
Saturday February 24, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Some of the cats enjoying the sunroom.
Today's Quote: “Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.” - Jenny Diski
Picture Taken: July 2018.
Friday February 23, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Daisy on the dining room table.
Today's Quote: “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Picture Taken: September 2018.
Thursday February 22, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Dexter enjoying a very nice February day out in the cat pen.
Today's Quote: “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Wednesday February 21, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Interesting picture of Andi watching what I'm up to.
Today's Quote: “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Tuesday February 20, 2024 Pic of the Day.
One of the two cats next door. Her name is Dennis. I was out this morning walking Dexter, and she came over to say hello. The grass was covered in a heavy frost which looks fantastic in this picture, but I'm sure the cats were not impressed with their bare feet.
Today's Quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Monday February 19, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Last October sure is looking summer-like from a February perspective. Dexter on the leash, Andi by the trunk of the Manitoba Maple.
Today's Quote: “You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” - Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
Picture Taken: October 2023.
Sunday February 18, 2024 Pic of the Day.
I took this picture the same day as yesterday's picture of Fiona. Not sure what Dexter was looking at here, but he is quite photogenic.
Today's Quote: "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Picture Taken: June 2020.
Saturday February 17, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This picture shows off Fiona's beautiful green eyes.
Today's Quote: "Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees." - Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Picture Taken: June 2020.
Friday February 16, 2024 Pic of the Day.
One of hundreds of pictures I have of Avensby in her asperagus box. I got her this box when she was a kitten from the grocery store, and to this day - 8 years later - she still uses the box almost daily. Luckily it is plastic, not cardboard. Avensby is a fairly small cat, and this box is quite small, that's why I got it for her as a kitten thinking it would only be a temporary spot for her to play. She took to it, and gets upset to this day if someone else gets in it.
Today's Quote: "The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place." - Eckhart Tolle
Picture Taken: May 2020.
Thursday February 15, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Cozy picture of brother and sister Leon and Andi. On the back of the couch is the toy cow that was Andi's favourite toy.
Today's Quote: "Those concocting evil schemes rarely perform them in descending order of evilness, so he could assume phase two was to be worse." - Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit
Picture Taken: February 2012.
Wednesday February 14, 2024 Pic of the Day.
I brought home Margarita on February 14, 2014. This picture is from 6 years after that. Margarita is a timid cat, and you can see it in this picture. Elly-May in the background eating cat grass.
Today's Quote: "While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch." - Patience Strong
Picture Taken: May 2020.
Tuesday February 13, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This is the 3rd day Dexter was with the cat family. I keep any new cat in a pen for the first while, and take them out on supervised walks. This way the cats get to see and smell each other, but the chance of fights is reduced. Sometimes I hang the pen from the ceiling so there is zero chance of a fight, but in this case with Dexter, nobody seemed to bother him, and he was very curious about his new life. I don't think he had seen a fire before, as he was a bit nervous and fascinated by it. The other cat, the calico, is Mumma-Puma. Her 5 kittens that lived with me were 3 1/2 years old when I got Dexter. Mumma-Puma was concerned about a tom cat who had been a feral cat in the place with her kittens, and she kept an eye on Dexter for a few weeks. When her son Leon and Dexter became close friends, Mumma-Puma relented and even became close with Dexter. Interesting that when her kittens were that age, she still was very protective of them.
Today's Quote: “All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” - Shannon L. Alder
Picture Taken: February 2012.
Monday February 12, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Dexter had been with the family for about 2 weeks when I took this picture of him with Patty. Patty made it difficult for them to be friends, but he did try.
Today's Quote: "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
Picture Taken: February 2012.
Sunday February 11, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Today is the day 12 years ago I brought Dexter home. He was a very nervous cat, but 3 weeks later when this picture was taken, he had settled in fairly well. I remember the day bringing him home well, as there was a cold, windy snow storm in progress.
Today's Quote: "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home." - Mother Teresa
Picture Taken: February 2012.
Saturday February 10, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This is a frame from a movie I took of Dexter when I first brought him home on February 11, 2012. He was a 4 year old feral tomcat. He was very bold, and looked right into the lens of the camera when I started taking the movie of him that this frame comes from. Dexter had, and still has, beautiful gold eyes with green centres around the pupil, though since he is 16 years old now, the colour is less intense. It was on today's date in February of 2012 that I first saw Dexter and agreed to adopt him, so I think of today and tomorrow as the anniversary dates.
Today's Quote: "Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls." - Georg Trakl
Picture Taken: February 2012.
Friday February 09, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Dexter can't figure out why the day is going so slowly.
Today's Quote: "...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.” - Susan Cain
Picture Taken: July 2022.
Thursday February 08, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Andi keeps a close eye on her treasure chest. Not sure what she keeps in there, but she never lets it out of her sight for long. She looks pleased with it here.
Today's Quote: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Wednesday February 07, 2024 Pic of the Day.
I took this last Christmas day morning. It was raining. Andi wanted to go out for a walk because the day before was pleasant, but once she was outside, she hid under the cat pen while Dexter and Norton watch. Andi looks like she is tipping over, but she is just rubbing her neck on the cat pen leg.
Today's Quote: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
Picture Taken: December 2023.
Tuesday February 06, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Interesting picture to me. Margarita is cleaning her paw, but the picture caught her tongue twisted in a surprising way. I would have thought cat's tongues would have cleaned flat.
Today's Quote: "Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life." - Colleen Hoover
Picture Taken: June 2022.
Monday February 05, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Avensby has a new friend, but I think she is a little unsure of the new cat. She seems to be giving it the "side eye". I was given this very nice carved cat the other day. Nice to see sunshine in early February too.
Today's Quote: "How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?" - Plato
Picture Taken: February 2024.
Sunday February 04, 2024 Pic of the Day.
I took this picture of Andi on Christmas Eve day. The lawn looks quite green considering the time of year. Even the leaves have more of an October look.
Today's Quote: “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” - John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Picture Taken: December 2023.
Saturday February 03, 2024 Pic of the Day.
This picture of Cornelius is similar to the one yesterday of Avensby 14 years later.
Today's Quote: “I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. - Mark Twain
Picture Taken: March 2008.
Friday February 02, 2024 Pic of the Day.
Avensby knows how to relax.
Today's Quote: “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” - Jane Austen
Picture Taken: June 2022.
Thursday February 01, 2024 Pic of the Day.
A picture from February of 2008. February sunshine is a delight, and Cornelius used to make full use of it.
Today's Quote: “The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. - William Cullen Bryant
Picture Taken: February 2008.
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