Wither Art Thou Iris
Yet more of the withered irises in my garden, featured previously here and here. These three posts are all shot within a day or two of each other, and today’s were all shot right after I took the picture of Cat No.2 in yesterday’s post. These are mostly with a different lens at a higher magnification, or at least in much tighter. I think the extra magnification gives these a very different feel.
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Cat Number Two
As I write this, Cat number 2 is sitting watching me, tail wrapped around front feet, blinking. She is in the house, and satisfied. Cat number 1 is in bed, on my wife’s legs. She too is satisfied, but would not be if she knew that No.2 was so relaxed, and indoors.
No.2 is/was our neighbours’ cat – she came with the house when they moved in but has not been settled since they have an exuberant 4 year old, and the cat door was removed during renovations (not that she is likely to have used it with so much change) and she is in any case painfully shy. As a result, she has lived outside for most of the two years since her previous human moved into assisted living. We have made various warm places for her to sleep outdoors and tried to be friendly but until recently she has only timidly reciprocated, mostly when we are doing the feeding.
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Standard Shadow
This wall in Port Angeles was a fantastic colour in the setting sun, but I was more interested in curved shadow among all those hard corners, and bird strikes. Also, I like the fuzzy bit of shadow at the top, where all those anti-bird spikes are located. I wonder if the bird strikes are some form of practice where they try to hit that uncomfortable bit of shadow, or something.
Anyway, I stripped out the colour to emphasize what interested me. Sorry about that.
On Guard
There is nothing like a guard elephant looming suddenly over the roof edge to scare the crap out of a trespassing photographer.
Reliable sources tell me that Curtis has a son-in-law in the roofing business, a busy son-in-law.
Avalanche Lily
Yesterday I showed a meadow full of avalanche lilies (Erythronium montanum) and today we look a bit closer at this species that we saw in many locations during our walk in the Olympic Mountains.
Olympic Ridge with Moon
More from last weekend’s trip to north west Washington State. Today is another shot from the Olympic Mountains, this one taken looking up a slope sprinkled with avalanche lilies (Erythronium montanum) to a sky delicately graced by a moon.
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