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After Midnight Raccoons

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Monday, October 3, 2022, 3:53 am — Raccoon family … sunflower seed bird feeder … after midnight …  Heard a rattling on the deck … turned on the light … Wondered why the feeder was spick and span clean in the morning … They didn’t come in on a red flying saucer … that’s a hummingbird feeder …

Below, original, dark photo … Above, photo has been lightened to gamma 2.31 …

Three years earlier, see a mother raccoon and 3 babies … same spot … Three Baby Raccoons!, July 21, 2019

A Bee Day

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Friday, August 5, 2022, 1:37 pm — Another deck flower perennial … echinacea (coneflower) … ready, willing and able to welcome a busy bee … See video of earlier generations, 4 years ago, Flower Power Deck Bees, July 26, 2018 …

Close-up of the earnest bee … finally found the action setting on the newish Lumix FZ300 … Also posted on my other blog, My Photo a Day Adventure …

Sizzle ‘n’ Walk Cat

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Thursday, June 16, 2022, 9:31 am — Male house finch … likes the new bird seeds … “Sizzling Variety with Habanero” … “Squirrels detest the pepper oil, but it’s harmless to birds” … Especially like that it has “no milo, no filler” … Songbird Selections, by Audubon Park, Seattle … who “work to help support small farms by purchasing local seed from local farmers as much as possible.”

… 10:35 am … Perkins … perambulating with a purpose … through the paper maze …

Mirataz Ears Cat

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Friday, September 17, 2021, 8:34 pm — Perkins … still giving her daily appetite stimulant … Mirataz ointment, inside alternate (outer) ears … After her internal medicine consult and ultrasound at Sunstone Veterinary Specialists, Portland, August 23, now waiting for December 29 appointment with Portland Veterinary Cardiology … to determine safest way proceed with treatment of her IBD … Extensive wait times for appointments is a side effect of the Covid pandemic …
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– Lumix FZ300

Update, Jan. 17, 2022 … Perk’s heart is 100% normal! … No sign of murmur … Will begin Prednisolone (steroid) … 0.5 mL once daily, 7 days … 0.25 mL once daily, 7 days … then 0.25 mL every other day … Rescheduled Dec. 29 appointment, several days of snow, ice (not putting on studded tires this winter since I don’t drive to work … retired!) … Then rescheduled Jan. 11 appnt., Perk was hiding! … Blue Pearl Pet Hospital, NE 42nd and Tillamook (good luck street!), Portland … (cardiologist travels to partner locations, but no longer Columbia River Veterinary Specialists, ER, Vancouver)

Update, Jan. 22, 2022 … Started steroid (liquid), after she ate, Thursday, evening, Jan. 20 … in mail from Northwest Compounders, Portland … Noticed a positive change in first 12 hours … looks better, seems to feel better!

Celebrating Rain Cat

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Friday, August 6, 2021, 4:28 am — What’s that strange, delightful sound? … Rain! … the first since June 15! … Worth commemorating with a photo and video …

6:15 am … 2 hours later … Teeny Tuxedo … happy to see the rain … but still sleepy …
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… 5:13 pm … 12 hours later … rain has stopped … the freshened air has brought some insect action to the burgeoning butterfly bush … Teeny says, “You gotta take a look!” …
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… a tattered swallowtail butterfly … VERY few this year … just as last year … see Singular Butterfly, July 17, 2020 …

… Ever industrious bee … Hooray for the FZ300’s 24x zoom … Enlarge for details …

… Part of the non-zoom butterfly bush from the corner of the deck … Since it wasn’t pruned last fall, it’s grown gigantically tall, beyond the roof eaves … Red arrow points to itsy-bitsy bee … Wandering clouds are the happy remnants of this morning’s RAIN!! …

Cooler Morning Moon

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 6:04 am — 1st time tried a “moon shot” … south from the deck … Refreshingly cooler early morning 70ºs … After 116° yesterday, today’s 92º will be a relief … then back to Pacific Northwest 70ºs for a few days …
Waning gibbous moon, above trees

… Impressed with the details of the craters, in spite of unsteady handheld … not fully zoomed … Inspired to try out the tripod … at least it’s out of the box! …
Waning gibbous moon, above trees, close crop

… This is a waning gibbous moon … June 29 … moon phases calendar …
Moon phases, June 2021

… 6:10 am … Song sparrow … “Do you think I can fly that high?” … (deck was power washed a bit later) …

Reaching High Rabbit

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Sunday, June 13, 2021, 7:50 pm — What fun! … Rabbit standing on back legs to reach tastiest top of tall grass … bent low under raindrops …

Update, August 7, 2021:  From April 24, 2005 … 16 years ago! … Rabbit relatives … How many generations back? … In the same location … edge of trees in back … My 1st Panasonic Lumix (1st month) … FZ20, 12x zoom … 2021 photos at top are Lumix FZ200, 24x zoom (purchased Feb. 2015) …


New Blooms Cat

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Friday, May 7, 2021, 12:52 pm — Perkins … Hard Work … colorful clematis, busy growing … sunshine between showers … enlarge to see raindrops … hardy clematis, blooming each spring since at least 2018, planted by cousin L … Perky, busy catnapping …
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From My Photo a Day Adventure … Jumping back into the photo-a-day challenge after 2 years! … Lumix FZ300

Update, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 1:17 pm … Powerful … The power of the micro zoom … to reveal the power of the flower … clematis, deck, after rain … Lumix FZ300 …

Chirp, Robin, Chirp!

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Sunday, May 2, 2021, 12:14 pm — A cheery, chirpy, clear sky robin day! … top of tree … looking north from the front door …  outside, rather than through a window … MUCH crisper! … (Russ and I were leaving for Olympia … Dirty Dave’s Pizza! … a travel tradition) …

By the time filming started, chirp-chirp-chirping stopped … did catch him/her drop a black seed out of its mouth … and make a swift flying exit …

Listen to the American robin’s cheery chirps and other songs and calls at audubon.org

Prince Philip’s Fell Ponies

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Saturday, April 17, 2021, 5:42 am — Perkins … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip … funeral today … live streaming, BBC … he’d planned all the details, including participation of his two Fell ponies and carriage, which have been left to his granddaughter, Lady Louise, 17 … Camera on top of scratching post and High Noon book … to film Fell ponies on tv screen (see below) …
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… Prince Philip’s Fells … Balmoral Nevis, Notlaw Storm … heading toward and at Windsor Castle …

… Prince Philip … Windsor grounds … 2019 …

… Granddaughter, Lady Louise, 14 … her mother, Sophie, Countess of Wessex (father, Prince Edward) … Royal Windsor Horse Show, 2018 … Philip taught them both to drive …

… Lowther Horse Driving Trials and County Fair, 2005 … 3-day combined driving event … Cumbria, England … (I was there all 3 days, 1999! … Queen Elizabeth was, also, thinking it might be Philip’s last year to compete … not quite!) …

… Competition Carriage Driving … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh … 1994 … have both this and his 2005 book, 30 Years On and Off the Box Seat …

… Windsor … 2017 …

“A red-topped plastic container was placed on the box seat of his driving carriage. He used it to store the sugar lumps he gave to his Fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, both present along with the carriage in the castle quadrangle. Next to this lay his driving cap, whip, blanket and brown gloves.“

Doob … my Fell pony … Orange Hay Net Cats, Oct. 24, 2016 …

Seeing Is Believing? Cats

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Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:05 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … pictures can be deceiving … wild and crazy Perkins?? … ready to pounce on Teeny??? …
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… NO … in the next split second, the camera  captures sleepy Perk … who woke up for a bit of grooming … Teeny still looks disgruntled … (is “gruntled” a word? … see below!) …
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Yup! … the opposite of “DISGRUNTLED” (unhappy and annoyed) is  … “GRUNTLED” (in good humor, happy, contented) …