Because she’s so freaking cute, and because she’s actually sitting still, for once.
The cat pictures were all taken with a wide-open Lensbaby 2.0 (the aperture disc was completely removed).
The Dream of the Lizard Baby
I had the weirdest dream this morning.
I came home and found that the obnoxious Cadillac from #5 was in my spot, only it was parked sideways, taking up three spaces. But because of bizarro dream physics, there was plenty of room for me to pull into my spot, blocking the Cadillac in. So I did. And then Mr. #5 came out and begged me to give him just five minutes to move his car, which I begrudgingly did.
I backed up my car and sat, waiting. And then I noticed that an ambulance was parked across my apartment door, blocking the entry. Okaythen! I may as well wait for Mr. #5 to move his car, because I can’t get into my apartment, anyway. So I did. And while I was waiting, the paramedics brought out a baby. In an aquarium. As I looked more closely, I saw that the baby was lying on its stomach, but lifting itself up with its front arms. Like a lizard. And then I looked even more closely, and saw that the baby was half lizard. A-ha! That’s why it was in an aquarium!
At that point, a girl tapped on my car window. I rolled down the window to talk to her, and saw that she was decked out head-to-to in preacher clothes. And then I noticed that there was a preacher standing on every doorstep in my court, preaching to no one.
And then I woke up. Teh enb.
Don’t know if Mr. #5 ever moved his damn car, but I doubt it.
Henry
Henry’s being her usual silly self, rolling around in the crow’s nest. She was getting ready to grab the camera with her front paws, but I got the photo and got out of the way before she could follow through.
Pareidolia
Maple Seed, Mirrored
Not a great photo, but I like the faint suggestion of a figure in the background.
Polly
Lots of bird activity (and chipmunks and bunnies, too), which means that Polly is sitting in the crow’s nest, watching all the to-ing and fro-ing.
Cherub and Fieldstone
Cherub
Fieldstone Grave Marker
These were taken a couple of weeks ago, at Splinter Ridge Cemetery. It was only the second time I’ve seen fieldstone markers, and the first time I’ve seen one inscribed, albeit not fully. It looks like whoever carved the inscription gave up after starting the second line. So far, all of the fieldstone markers I’ve seen have been unshaped, raw pieces of stone.
Mary
Mary Wife of Isaac Conyers Died Oct. 24, 1857
I always hate seeing women’s headstones that just list her as the wife of some dude. I searched Ancestry.com for to see if I could figure out her maiden name, but all I turned up were unsourced public trees, some of which have impossible information. As in, several people have attached my Findagrave record to their trees for a Mary M. Tharp. There was a Mary M. Tharp who married an Isaac Conyers in Indiana, but that marriage occurred after this Mary died.
And then someone requested that I update the Findagrave record with information that I thought was suspect. I declined. So I guess they complained and had the information added by someone at Findagrave. I have no reason to believe her maiden name was Burton, or that these linked folks are her family. As far as I can tell, the Mary Burton who married Isaac Conyers lived and died in Bath County, Kentucky in 1868.
Black Locust
As I was walking around the older part of the cemetery, I kept getting whiffs of something sweet-smelling. I couldn’t figure out what it was, because none of the flowers growing there were strongly scented. I finally figured out the smell was coming from a flowering locust tree behind the church.
Maiden
I posted another photo of her, taken from below, but it didn’t show the spider webs covering her head. There were lots of spiders and flies and tiger beetles at this cemetery.
Christmas in May
Another shot from last week’s trip to Liberty Methodist Protestant Cemetery. I don’t understand the concept of decorating graves for Christmas, but leaving the decorations up until the tree is dead makes even even less sense.
red paper boat 