In Memory Of Athos

Athos

Athos has flown away to the RB, his family is devastated. If you haven't already, you can add your words of comfort HERE, at his blog.

Wordless Wednesday

 

More Spring Things; Flower, Tree and Sun Selfies!

 What a week!!

Solar eclipse, spring bursting forth, and terrible winds! At least we didn't lose our power here, but a large part of our city was without power...yesterday, with wind gusts to 50 mph...and still was that way Saturday afternoon. They got it back on late Saturday...at least it wasn't too cold or hot.

This is the only full blossom of two daffs that came up this year. Not sure where all the others went, there used to be quite a few of them....sigh....

We were able to see the eclipse last Monday, we had those  special glasses. It was clear so we had good viewing. We didn't have totality here, but a good portion was obscured. 

Petcretary put the glasses over her camera lens and got a few not too bad images...(she just used her phone...)

This was taken at the point when we had as nuch occlusion as we were going to have...it did get a bit dim, but there were still shadows, and all the birds kept singing...

On Monday last week, our Weeping Cherry Tree was almost at its peak. 

Look closely and you can see this butterfly's proboscis!

These butterflies are all over our tree....how do they manage to stay on in these windy conditions!!

Thursday, probably the peak day of this year's blossoming. Its full of butterflies and bees!

Saturday...a lot of blossoms have blown off n the recent winds and rain...

Look about 1/3 from the top, and find the butterfly!

Maple Flowers, one of the causes of Petcretary's allergies....Pollen!

We were hard to get close together...and even harder to both look at *her* at the same time, BOL!
Since this pic was taken last weekend, our grass has greened up a lot, and even got its first 'haircut' this past Tuesday.

We are happy to be able to join in with The Cat On My Head, the hosts of the weekly Sunday Selfies feature. Thanks, Kitties Blue!

Angelic Beauties

 Once again we have Angels to grieve over in Blogville...

Lightning went to join his doggy family members who went before...

Lightning

And Gemini also flew away to join her family who were waiting to greet her at the RB.

Gemini

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A while back, Mariette, sent me a couple of images and asked me to 'make them better'. Well, I played with them for quite a while and eventually had them looking much improved. But the background was distracting, so I took that away, and sent the fixed images back to her. Then because I wanted to enhance them some more I put them into 'frames'. She was surprised to receive them, and happy, too. It was my pleasure to do this art for her...anyways here are the pictures in the frames that I made for her. The older ladies are her Mother in law, her Paternal Grandmother and her Mother. Such a precious memory to have.

Mariette'sMother in Law, (in wheelchair), her Paternal Grandmother, Mariette and her Mom 

Mariette and her paternal Grandmother

And  Mariette continues the tradition of singing in the Choir of her church, as did those special ladies in her life. Mariette knows that they are singing as angels do while she sings in an earthly choir to mingle their voices all to the praise and worship of the Lord. You can visit Mariette's Blog, by clicking on this link.

These pictures are all artworks, esp the two that I made for Mariette, so I am joining with the Caturday art Blog hop.

Caturday Art

Sweet Guest Kitty!

 Today we will show you a kitty that came to visit some of the residents where Petcretary works.

But first some other stuff...

Spring might be taking its time, but it is showing signs of things to come!

Our weeping cherry tree is getting some color...

Its branches have these deep magenta buds all over it.

The Scilla are in abundance all thorugh the grass and leaves under the cherry tree.

The dogwood has buds too.

Which look like alien creatures, LOL!

Petcretary was first to class at Teddy'sTuesday Teaser....and she was also the one who had the first right guess! Wow, That doesn't happen too often...Here is the badge she got, it has an Easter theme...BOL!

Us pups gave our pawrents a scare Saturday morning...pawppy came downstairs to a barf-festival...here a barf, there a barf, everywhere a barf...eeuuwwww! Of course we didn't squeal on each other, so they do not know who the 'barfer' was....but after a while they downed their breakfast and all was well again.

Phew, at least it was short lived....we all hope!

Earlier this past week, we had an intruder here...he had  a noisy machine too. And he stomped around in the kitchen and in the cellar, too. There was a flood in the cellar when we let the water out of the sink after doing the dishes, etc. Well after a couple of passes with that noisy drain sink of his, he pulled out the blockage...it was a bird!! Yikes, that poor bird!! Apparently it fell into the vent pipe outside....so now there is a cover to still let the air out, but nothing cam fall in anymore.

OK. here is Katie, our pretty calico guest!

We are hopping along with all the other Sunday selfies at The Cat On My Head!

Happy Hoppy Easter!!

 Hello everyone! Happy Easter to you all!

We apologize for our lack of visiting most of you....sometimes there are things that get in the way of doing that...at least that is what petcretary claims. We have not forgotten our friends, nor abandoned you, BOL!

Anyways here are our Easter themed selfies for today. 

Earlier this week, petcretary was a bit late arriving to 'class', but she still had a right guess for Teddy's Tuesday Teaser. They even had a bunny bus driver, LOL! The badges for that day were Easter themed...

We also want to acknowledge the Purple Week, which is the week surrounding the 26th of March. Our Pawppy was visited by the nasty  seizure monster  in Feb 2022....but with good modern medicine and knowledgeable docs, he has not had any more.

We are Easter Hopping...with The 
Kitties Blue, at The Cat on My Head.

New Angel Remembrances

 Once again, the Gates to the Rainbow Bridge were opened to allow new angels to enter...

Sampo from Catio Tales

Joanie from 15andMeowing

Joanie ~ I was unable to do any editing on the site this pretty memorial image came from...

Please visit their families to leave your words of comfort if you have not already done so.

We did have a few words here, but still, we are joining up with the Wordless Wednesday Blog hop.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Selfies from Easter 2017

 Today is Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter.

Petcretary has to be at her work, so we decided it might be nice to have a look at an  Easter when the original three that started this blog were still together. 2017, the last Easter for Minko....who'd have thought that he would fly away in just two months...

Anyways here are the selfies we had to show you on that Easter Sunday...a flashback Easter Parade of Selfies!

Angel Minko

Angel Pipo

Angel MrJackFreckles

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We are joined up with the SundaySelfies at The Cat On My Head.; Thanks, Kitties Blue!