Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand Tree, Teacup Yorkie

WP Photo Challenge: GRAND

This was once a GRAND tree…  And now there is a teeny Teacup Yorkie

Avery and the GRAND tree. Lisa Senter photo credit

Meow for now… =<^:^>=

Here are more GRAND pics…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Finale to an Entrance

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | The World Is a Book…

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Postcards from

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand: Feral Cat | The Blessing of Animal Companions

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | From My Horizon

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Ritva’s Art – Photography

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Photography Journal Blog

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Chelle’s Room

• Weekly Photo Challenge: GRAND | CIGUDEG pleis bilong tu mi

• The Gilded Bas Relief Of Wat Mai | The Urge To Wander

• Grand – A WordPress Photo Challenge! | Life in the Foothills

• Batanes Island and the day I waited for a tsunami | The Traveling Journo

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Shmamaland

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Journeyman

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | LooknWalk

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand | Shannon’s Creative Work

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand « LIVING WITH MY ANCESTORS

• Grand Buddha | pen . paper . storm

WP Photo Challenge: Reflections

Daily Post: WordPress: Reflections 

Shooting into the sun produces silvery reflections on the water and sharp silhouettes on land.

Six Lakes, North Fort Myers, Florida

The Last Meow…

Reflections. Yes. This is a lovely reflection of me, don’tcha think? I am thinking of entering a beauty contest. I am sure I will win. Just look at my glossy coat, my fine white whiskers, my demure manner, and my sweet personality. Perfection.

Photo credit: The Creative Cat

And here are some more kitty reflections…

Meow for now.  =<^;^>=

And here are some more reflections:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections « sianakdesa

• Thirteen Things Thursday: Blogging Inertia | that cynking feeling

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | Spiritual World Traveler

• Christmas Reflections « SimplySage

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | An Evil Nymph’s Blog

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | A Taswegian in Finland

• A damp start | The View From the Back Door

• shaded « yi-ching lin photography

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections « Creative Escape

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections (late!) | 12 Books in 12 Months

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | Bams’ Blog

• Introducing Hipstamatic Assignments and Assignment #1 | Lu’s Pix

• Winter Wonderland | shutter + bliss

• WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: REFLECTIONS | Patricia Sands’ Blog

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons « Beijing Daily Photo 2

• Symmetry in Photography « Raven Photography UK

NaBloPoMo 24. WP Photo Challenge: Unexpected at Church

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected

 Shhh… for a little added spice….

…

Unexpected: bike in church with church bulletin riding tandem

The Last Meow…

I guess you didn’t expect this either, huh, Missy Jan?

WooWee. Way to go.
From Elsie the Library Cat FB page.

Meow for now.  =^:^=

Here are a few more unexpected responses:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected | Travel Monkey
Here are Your Favorites! | I see beauty all around by rob paine
Mistress of the Unexpected | Travel with Intent
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected | Purple Rosemary
Squirrels: Armed with an appetite | Procurrent
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected | Isadora Art and Photography

Unexpected: Weekly Photo Challenge | The Human Rights Warrior
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected | small house/BIG GARDEN
Weekly Photo Challenge – Unexpected | Travels and Trifles

landmark | yi-ching lin photography

Weekly Photo Challenge~Unexpected | joannebest

Weekly Photo Challenge – Unexpected | alien shores

Making contacts, marketing, and overcoming obstacles. | whyyouwanna

Unexpected | With blackberry wine

Tea for the Sickly | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
Weekly photo challenge – Unexpected 2 – Starring the knitted deer. | The numpty with a camera and a laptop
WPC – Unexpected | Photography & Writing
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected | Andy in Oman
THE DAILY POST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: Unexpected | FATHERSUNNY

Cee’s for Three: Three Beauty Queens? Not! Oh Well.

Sometimes when you get together with old friends, you get a little silly. Mo, Mary, and I went out on the boat (still tied to the dock) on Mackey Lake, Soldotna, Alaska, and tried to catch. . . lily pads!

Then we announced our presence to the world. Ta dah! We were ready to lead the parade in John’s ole truck. Beauty queens ridiculous Good friends having a great reunion! Stop that laughing right now.

NaBloPoMo 21. Cee’s Threes on Thursday

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Three Items or the Number Three

Trees. church windows, shoes!, volunteers at MS Bike-a-Thon – Ocean City NJ, bonsai branches, San Diego trolley windows, granary pots at Living Desert-Desert Springs CA, grapefruit in Indio CA, oranges in Indio CA, cactus at Sunnylands Center – Rancho Mirage CA (Annenberg estate), and my favorite – three sweet girls eating gelato in San Gimignano, Italy.

 

Three friends in colorful outfits enjoy gelato in San Gimignano, Italy.

The Last Meow..

And how about these three little kitties?

Meow for now. =^;^=

And…ta dah…three blogging challenges:

 

NaBloPoMo 19. WP Photo: Unusual POV

I saw this dancing girl at the Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, NJ and took her picture from different points of view.

Which view do you like best?

Look here for info on this challenge: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/unusual/

NaBloPoMo 15. WP Photo Challenge: Layers of Whatever

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

The Last Meow.

Cats galore, but organized!
Picture: Troy Perault

And two more from us!  Layers of Kitty socks and Kitties in a tower.

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sea (at Galilee)

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sea

Sea of Galilee at Caperneum

Filled with anticipation about our visit to Israel, we awoke our first day to this stunning view of the Sea of Galilee from our hotel window.

Here’s what others posted for this challenge:

• By the Sea, By the Sea… | A New Day
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Untold Contemplation
• Sea // Balance {Photo Challenge} | Clicky Chick Creates
• Take me to the Sea | The Beauty Along the Road
• discovery | yi-ching lin photography
• the PEEP SHOW | Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | the TRASH BASH
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea Change | Love in the Spaces
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | hek reschberger – more than light
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Chicomallorca’s Blog
• Photo of the Month : High Tides in Saint-Malo | Les Petits Pas de Juls
• Meeting Matthew | Taking One Day At A Time
• WORTH RESPECTING | bluebrightly
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea – Discovering Ranch Life ~ Photography
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Edge of the Forest
• Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Sea… | Lakshmi Loves To Shop
• Surrendering to Each Moment | IMAGES & WORDS
• Sunset – Weekly Photo Challenge: SEA | Summerfield84’s English blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | The Mediterranean Sea North of Barcelona | The Journey of My Feet
• Flying On Empty Thoughts | In My Element.
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea. Photos and Poetry 9 | Helen’s Photomania Blog
• Sea – Ventnor, NJ Weekly Photo Challenge | Linda Long Writes!
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Oh, the Places We See . . .
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Oh, the Places We See . . .
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Last Train to QVille
• Weekly photo challenge: Sea | La chica de la burbuja
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | mightwar
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Sea | Canoe Communications
• Whales at Sea | dadirridreaming
• weekly photo challenge: color palettes of the sea | bob’s wife
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Southern Sea Muse
• Bring Me That Horizon | Wiley’s Wisdom
• Weekly Photo Challenge – Sea | Endless Skys
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | WINDA & HER STORIES
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Overcoming Bloglessness
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | HeartBound
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Pinkpodster Ponders
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Solitary Spinster
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Shmamaland
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | rodocarda
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | Foto Challenge
• By the Sea | Ron Mayhew’s Blog
• Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Sea | WoollyMuses
• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea – Gwangalli surfers & night lights | Private Mixture
• Weekly Photo Challenge : Sea | Retirement and beyond
• WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea (1) | Bastet and Sekhmet
• Word Press Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea | The Day After
• WPC: The Sea | Anotherdayinparadise2’s Blog

The Last Meow
What do I love about the sea? The beach. Hands down. No contest.

Photo credit: Travel Times Magazine

Meow for now.  =<^;^>=

WP Photo Challenge: Focus. Lillies after the Storm

A recent posting by Cee (see below) inspired me to post this picture of lilies after a storm.

Click here to see Cee’s “Macro Monday: Grandma’s Lemon PIe Dahlia. It is gorgeous.

The Last Meow

Hey, those flowers are lovely, but where did you plant the catnip? This stuff here is just parsley. I can’t eat that. C’mon, where’s the good stuff?

 Meow for now. =<^;^>=

WordPress Photo Challenge: Focus on The Very Hungry Caterpillars

Last week I looked out my screen door only to discover an army of caterpillars dressed in green military fatigues chomping their way through my once thriving pot of parsley. I took several pictures to document the devastation, but my battery was low, and I could not get the focus right.

I charged the camera battery for about a half an hour, hoping the crawling critters would still be mowing the parsley so I could get a few focused pictures. Note that the focus improved once the battery had enough charge.

The caterpillars climb bare stalks looking for more of that good, leafy stuff.

Here the little herbivores go out on a limb to get the very last bites of leafy green. And look at that guard cat…asleep on the job…again. Fired!

The Last Meow

What? Me asleep on the job. No way. I know these green cuties will soon be sweet little flutterbys and will gather around all of your lovely butterfly bushes. See, I am always thinking about you. (That caterpillar on my ear did tickle a bit!)

Photo credit: dotsamson.wordpress.com

Meow for now. =<^;^>=    

PS. Do you remember reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in Kindergarten? Kids love that book and ask to hear it read or read it themselves over and over again.  Here Darren Robert McTurk reads this well-loved book for you.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle