Cat With A Camera

2011-09-06T22:16:00.000-07:00

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..."

John Gillespie Magee

My beloved friend, my furbaby, departed this world to wait for me on this day, September 6, 2011

at 5:45 pm.

Welcome back spring!

2008-04-28T15:09:00.000-07:00

"Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes."

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Written in Early Spring

Cliff view

2008-04-26T01:29:00.000-07:00

"Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

A face only a Mother could love?

2008-04-12T22:29:00.001-07:00

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."
Rainer Maria Rilke

Thare be Dragons!

2008-04-12T22:12:00.000-07:00

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Domestic Panther

2008-04-12T22:07:00.001-07:00

"But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his."
James Cromwell

Pretty, pretty....

2008-03-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
(Joseph Joubert 1754-1824)

Oliver

2008-03-23T16:52:00.001-07:00

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
(William S. Burroughs 1914-1997)

Pearls and other sparkelies

2008-03-23T16:43:00.000-07:00

"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."
(Moses Ibn Ezra, 1055/60-1138 ? ) Shirat Yisrael

Are you with me??

2008-03-23T16:26:00.000-07:00

"If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!"
(Willie Aames)

"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
(Joseph Campbell)

Leading you on....

2008-03-10T03:23:00.001-07:00

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."
(Vance Havner 1901-1986)

Bottled Color

2008-03-10T03:13:00.000-07:00

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
(Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841 - 1935)

What's on the TV?

2007-09-09T14:45:00.000-07:00

"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
(Gallagher)

Pandi Scrapbook

2007-07-30T17:57:00.001-07:00

"Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it."
(Alan Holbrook)

Morning Glorys at night

2007-07-30T17:51:00.000-07:00

"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882)

2007-06-30T20:17:00.000-07:00

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."
(John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963), Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

2007-06-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."
(Auguste Rodin)

Shroom

2007-06-20T20:18:00.000-07:00

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
(Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC)

What Lies Within?

2007-06-17T14:58:00.000-07:00

"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation."
(Saadi 1184 - 1291)

2007-06-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)

Green Cat

2007-06-11T03:41:00.000-07:00

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
(Unknown)

Red Hollyhock

2007-06-11T03:35:00.000-07:00

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
(Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887)

View from Moonstone beach.

2007-06-09T14:56:00.000-07:00

"It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
(Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894)

Art for sale in Jacksonville OR.

2007-06-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
(Frank Zappa 1940 - 1993)

Slowly, with caution...

2007-06-08T23:20:00.000-07:00

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
(Plato 427BC - 347BC)

Pandi

2007-06-08T22:08:00.000-07:00

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
(Jeff Valdez)

Metal Chick

2007-06-08T19:18:00.000-07:00

"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths."
(Lois Wyse)

Little green froggy

2007-06-08T19:14:00.000-07:00

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."
(Eric Berne 1910 - 1970)

Mt. Shasta

2007-06-07T23:51:00.000-07:00

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
(Ruth Westheimer)

Red Thistle

2007-06-07T23:35:00.000-07:00

"It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass."
(E. S. Dallas)