Tag Archives: flowers

Showdown Cats

March 3, 2023cats, computer, curiosity, fight, fun, outside, shadows, sleep, trees, windowbedding, cat face, claws, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, paws, red tabby cat, run, tuxedo cat, walkteenyperk

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 12:21 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … could this be a showdown, stare down at the OK Cat Corral? …

… Peaceful, so far … Perkins catnaps on the edge of the bed … shadow of her ears and head …

… Teeny moseys out of the shadows … her head and ears shadow follows along …

… Faster ‘n greased lightin’, Teen draws her claws paw … Perky does some quick skidaddlin’! …

3:10 pm … a couple hours later …

… the dust has settled … all’s quiet on the Kitty Sills OK Cat Corral front …

Bird Eyes

March 3, 2023birds, outside, windowcamera, eyes, flowersteenyperk

Friday, October 21, 2022, 2:41 pm — Two male house finches … eyes … in plain sight … and hiding … butterfly bush … Lumix FZ300 camera …

Can You See Me?

March 3, 2023animals, fun, outside, weather, windowbird feeder, deck, flowers, squirrelsteenyperk

Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 3:13 pm — Squirrel … deck flowers, fading into autumn …

… Can you see me eating suet? …

… Can you see me now? … I’m hiding behind these flowers …

Shadowsland Cats

March 2, 2023cats, computer, curiosity, outside, shadows, sleep, stretch, windowblinds, cat face, deck, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, me, newspaper, orange tabby cat, paws, red tabby cat, sit, tuxedo catteenyperk

Friday, October 14, 2022, 12:51 pm — Teeny Tuxedo …

Saturday, October 15, 12:58 pm … Teeny, Perkins … butterfly bush …

Tuesday, October 18, 1:54 pm … Teeny … “Can I help?” … New York Times … daily Spelling Bee … “Make words of four or more letters using the letters in the honeycomb, including the center letter. There’s always one pangram, a word that uses all seven letters and counts for big points.” …

Below … Wahoo! Reached Genius in the April 21, 2023 New York Times Spelling Bee! … Wrote a haiku using some of the words … More of my “Genius” Spelling Bee haikus at My Haiku Adventure blog …

Vital Bee
On virtual trail
With lariat
Caught true Genius

Limited View Cat

March 2, 2023cats, curiosity, shadows, windowblinds, cat face, flowers, Kitty Sills, tuxedo catteenyperk

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 12:24 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … kinda hard to see through the tiny spaces in the Venetian blinds … shadows of butterfly bush …

Where Are the Nuts?

February 25, 2023animals, fun, outside, scratching, video, windowflowers, kitchen, run, squirrelsteenyperk

Saturday, September 24, 2022, 4:14 pm — Squirrel is VERY busy … front lawn, from kitchen window … looking for previously hidden nuts … and re-hiding them … See backyard squirrel do the same, 3 weeks earlier, Seek and Hide Squirrel, Sept. 4, 2022 …

… racing to a new spot …

… surveying the scene from giant rock …

Below, video … Squirrel on the hunt … stops to scratch its nose with both front paws at 0:38 seconds …

Neighbor’s autumn flowers … tiny tomatoes … Squirrel was scurrying through grass on right …

Paws Overboard Cats

February 25, 2023cats, curiosity, fun, outside, stretch, window, yawnbedding, cat face, favorites, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, Marimekko bedding, orange tabby cat, red tabby cat, tuxedo catteenyperk

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 2:36 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … it’s a back paws over the edge, copy cats afternoon … stretching back toes on the Kitty Sill …

Perkins … same time … edge of bed … stretching back toes … below Teeny at the window …

Pink Sleep Cat

February 24, 2023cats, outside, shadows, sleep, windowcat face, flowers, Kitty Sills, paws, tuxedo catteenyperk

Monday, September 12, 2022, 2:33 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … butterfly bush shadows …

All in a Day Cat

February 24, 2023cats, fun, health, mirror, outside, shadows, stretch, window, yawnbathroom, bedding, cat face, flowers, Kitty Sills, loaf, Marimekko bedding, paper, paws, tuxedo catteenyperk

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 12:46 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … quiet times … back paws … butterfly bush … [photos, Lumix Z300] …

… 12:59 pm … How about a big yawn? …

… Is this better? …

… 11:48 pm … “loafing” in the front bathroom … still friends with the oral syringes for her (and Perky’s) medication …

Chitter-Chatter Cat

February 24, 2023birds, cats, curiosity, fun, outside, video, windowcat face, flowers, Kitty Sills, meow, tuxedo cat, walkteenyperk

Saturday, September 3, 2022, 10:46 am — Teeny Tuxedo … chattering at birds in the butterfly bush … Unusual … She’s more of a silent watcher … Too slow with the camera … caught only one little chitter at beginning of video …

Flower Buffet Birds

February 23, 2023birds, food, fun, outside, video, weatherflowersteenyperk

Thursday, August 18, 2022, 2:35 pm — After 99° yesterday, today’s 88° … just right for a refreshing butterfly bush buffet for … the bird herd! … a minute earlier, it had been bustling with many more of the tiny mighty mights … Their official name: Bushtit … More photos, Return of the Bird Herd, Dec. 15, 2019 …

Cool Facts … from Cornell …

The Bushtit is the only member of its family in the Americas; seven other species are found in Eurasia. All have similar complex hanging nests.
A breeding Bushtit pair often has helpers at the nest that aid in raising the nestlings. This already rare behavior is made more unusual by the fact that the helpers are typically adult males.
For most breeding birds, only one adult at a time sleeps on the nest, but all Bushtit family members sleep together in their large, hanging nest during the breeding season. Once the young fledge, they all leave the nest and thereafter sleep on branches.

A Bee Day

February 23, 2023blogs, outside, videocamera, deck, favorites, flowers, insectsteenyperk

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 …

Statuesque Rabbit

February 23, 2023animals, outside, shadows, trees, video, weatherbird feeder, camera, deck, flowers, rabbit, sitteenyperk

Tuesday, August 4, 2022, 8:21 pm — Cautious rabbit … sat perfectly still … for 5 minutes … while I quietly took photos from deck …

… Setting sun highlights tops of trees in east … burgeoning butterfly bush on left … White arrow points to rabbit …

Video below … the only thing moving is Bunnster’s wigglin’ nose …

Accent Colors Cat

February 23, 2023cats, curiosity, Finnish, fun, outside, windowbedding, flowers, Kitty Sills, Marimekko bedding, me, paper, paws, sit, tuxedo catteenyperk

Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 10:36 am — Teeny Tuxedo … Tuesday’s color is … BLUE! … “sininen” in Finnish …

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 12:59 pm … Wednesday’s color is … RED! … “punainen” in Finnish … (Red spiral notebook has Finnish language study notes … plus headphones) …

Pink Tootsie Cat

February 22, 2023cats, outside, shadows, sleep, windowcat face, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, paws, red tabby catteenyperk

Friday, July 29, 2022, 1:08 pm — Perkins … pink paw in the sun … butterfly bush …

Hot Day’s End Butterfly

February 22, 2023outside, video, weather, windowflowers, insectsteenyperk

Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 7:16 pm — Cool of the evening … swallowtail butterfly … dining at the butterfly bush … the 100º sun is finally down … beginning a week in the high 90ºs … the first overly hot stretch of a rainier-than-usual Pacific NW summer … See a swallowtail in brighter light, 3 years ago, Up Close Butterfly Cat, July 22, 2019 …

Video below … Swallowtail butterfly … butterfly bush has been late to bloom this year …

Same Time Cat

February 22, 2023cats, fun, shadows, sleep, windowcat face, ears, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, paws, red tabby catteenyperk

Friday, July 22, 2022, 2:56 pm — Perkins … I like these blue towels so much … but not the intrusive camera …

… blue cotton towels … delightfully comfy … (there’s a new white bloom on the butterfly bush) …

Sunday, July 24, 2022, 2:56 pm … two days later … serendipitously at the exact same time … 2:56 pm …

Blue View Cat

February 22, 2023animals, cats, curiosity, outside, shadows, weather, windowflowers, Kitty Sills, tuxedo catteenyperk

Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 8:41 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … What does she see … through all the leaves of the butterfly bush? … Blue towels on Kitty Sills while “fleece” covers are washed …

7:45 pm … A rabbit … half in, half out of setting sun …

Sherbet & Flowers Cat

February 21, 2023cats, family, food, fun, outside, shadows, sleep, windowblinds, deck, flowers, ginger cat, orange tabby cat, red tabby catteenyperk

Monday, July 11, 2022, 11:53 am — How about a refreshing scoop of lime sherbet … served up in the center of golden rudbeckia flowers! …Perennial rudbeckia are truly hardy … on the deck for 5 years … jasmine in back … many thanks to cousin L …

Perkins says, “Don’t forget me … I’m orange sherbet!” … The lime sherbet golden rudbeckia are on the other side of the deck window …

Outside-In Cat

February 21, 2023cats, outside, shadows, sleep, windowdeck, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, red tabby cat, reflectionteenyperk

Thursday, July 7, 2022, 1:06 pm — Perkins … deck reflected in window …

Perfect Spots Cats

February 21, 2023animals, boxes, cats, food, fun, outside, shadows, sleepcat face, deck, flowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, paper, rabbit, rainbow toy, red tabby cat, sit, toys, tuxedo catteenyperk

Friday, July 1, 2022, 1:13 am — Teeny Tuxedo … box of paper to recycle … perfect sitting spot … but the camera flash is too bright …

1:44 pm … Perkins … a column of sun on the deck Kitty Sill … perfect sleeping spot …

7:52 pm … Rabbit … peaceful summer evening … table is set with little yellow flowers … perfect dining al fresco spot …

Calico Cat Walkabout

February 20, 2023cats, curiosity, other cats, outside, trees, video, windowflowers, jump, sit, walkteenyperk

Sunday, June 26, 2022, 3:46 pm — Ms / Mr Calico … heading east along edge of trees … Nice to see her, even though she shouldn’t be outside … last visit was in cold January …

Videos below … walk, sit … trot! …

First two visits … Calico Visitor Cat, Oct. 19, 2021 … Calico Cat Revisits, Jan. 27, 2022 (with video of jumping up to roof from deck!)

Window Visions Cats

February 20, 2023birds, cats, curiosity, outside, shadows, sleep, trees, video, weather, windowflowers, ginger cat, Kitty Sills, orange tabby cat, red tabby cat, sky, tuxedo catteenyperk

Monday, June 20, 2022, 2:14 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … what do you see out there in the sunshine? …

Videos below … Female house sparrow in butterfly bush in front of the window … Wind blowing clouds to the east …

Dining Deer Cat

February 20, 2023animals, cats, curiosity, food, outside, trees, video, windowdeer, ears, favorites, flowers, tuxedo cat, walkteenyperk

Saturday, June 18, 2022, 11:42 am — Teeny Tuxedo … looked out the window … Lunchtime, munchtime for the first customer at the Backwoods Buffet … a deer! … happy to dine on the gorgeous greenery … Teeny’s camouflaged behind the butterfly bush, sprouting up, but no blooms yet …