Nature – SOMETIMES

My 2018 cat shelter (Part I)

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Time to update the outside cat shelter. Lots of straw, tarps, assorted crates and wood…and a big table… plus more to come.

Barbara, for faithful followers’ information, is the wild Calico Cat that lives outside and was rarely seen…until the greenhouse where she hung out for years was torn down last spring, leaving poor Barbara rather confused and homeless. But now she has apparently decided to move into the shelter on my back deck. She is not afraid of me, and comes out when I call her name. All of the cats locally defer to and respect “crazy Barbara” as she is sometimes called…they make room at the food dish and water pan, and apparently tolerate the tough old lady.

DSC02564.JPG barbara 1 — Barbara, an old soldier, three feet, feral, numerous kittens. Bad foot is from being hit by a car, we didn’t know until later.

This guy doesn’t really live here, but is a frequent visitor who apparently likes the food..

An early arrangement, under temporary cover.

This big grey tarp from “mail away” covers the entire deck and stays up year round. There will be at least one more heavy tarp draped over the umbrella. The temps could get down to Zero degrees Fahrenheit later in the winter…or not. This is Ohio, we try to be prepared for whatever comes our way.

early rain protection, the plants have moved into the house.

This is the house the APL Lady, Joyce, made a few years ago. It was Peggy’s house but now two or three cats call it home. It’s a big tub like for Christmas trees. I put new straw inside this year, and checked out the inside…very impressive, built with ledges and windows to allow light, fully lined with insulation.

View from the kitchen, the shelter will include the swing, several tarps and assorted boxes. It was still green outside when I took this shot.

a view inside, the light in back of the tarps is coming from heavy plastic “windows” in the back of the right side, so it isn’t just a dark hole.

The (R) edge of the tarp will come down to anchor the main part of the shelter.

Cats, more cats…and dogs

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Posing Peggy

Toby likes Blue

Barbara with kittens

Little Sister kitten: Callie

am I cute or what?

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Mawkin..striking a pose

Bob

Peggy in the wild

Mandy and offspring

A thing of beauty is a joy forever…John Keats

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(all photos ©Sometimes, 2018)

DSC02897.JPG red hibiscus good pattern — Red Hibiscus

DSC02729.JPG white hibiscus n chimenera good shot — Hibiscus and Chimanera

DSC02605.JPG RUGGED BEAUTY — Been around awhile

DSC02610.JPG SPENT HIBISCUS GOOD — Beauty til the end…inside a spent hibiscus flower

Here’s the opossum, right on cue

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DSC02695.JPG here she is (2) — Just as I was blogging about her to a friend….she showed up! (©Sometimes 2018)

serenity in a shallow brook?

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DSC02534.JPG ILLUSION OF SHALLOW POND — shallow creek; see the little critter?

No more kittens…but here’s a possibility

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The latest kittens from next door. Barbara has been featured in this blog before…she is a rough and tumble lady that appeared from thin air long ago; she lived in the now defunct greenhouse across the road. Not sure where she lives now, she is very illusive.

[all photos ©Sometimes, 2018}

DSC02549.JPG little grey 3 — going next door

DSC02511.JPG LITTLE GIRL KITTEN 2 — Little Sister kitten

DSC02514.JPG BARBARA N LITTLE GREY 2 — Barbara & Son

DSC02558.JPG little grey 4 good — Here he is: Little Grey

DSC02559.JPG little grey 3 — Little Grey posing

DSC02560.JPG little grey 2 — beautiful markings

DSC02562.JPG little grey kitten — hmmm…what’s over here?

DSC02552.JPG little grey nosy — Nosy Little Grey

bringing down the trees: a study in accuracy & precision

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I spent most of three days watching the clearing of a 1.8 acre lot which I sold recently. The operation was both sad and fascinating. The company that did this work was efficient, the crews worked magnificently together, and the huge trees fell precisely as intended…where they had stood for a hundred years. (All photos are my own.)

DSC02343.JPG THE LAST APPLE TREE N MY HOUSE — The last apple tree, my house in the background.

DSC02364.JPG VIEW FROM THE LAST APPLE — The last apple tree, facing Southeast.

20180627193349.m2ts STILL OF APPLE TREE(3) — There goes the last tree after it was cut down, on its way to the chipper.

DSC02374.JPG TREES STILL THERE — Here is the Eastern corner while some trees on the tree line are still standing.

DSC02375.JPG VERY GOOD GUY UP IN BUCKET RED SHIRT — Man in red shirt in bucket…others working on downed branches.

DSC02376.JPG VERY GOOD SHOT OF TREE GOING TO CHIPPER — Tree top down.

DSC02410.JPG SAME AS 09 BUT SHOWS CHAIN SAW — Chainsaw dangling from top of crane; dragging tree top to chipper. The yellow machine is a stump digger, operates by remote control. The white building is the church. The clump of ornamental grass in the foreground is on the very edge of the property, so far spared by the operation.

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This is way the edge looked before the pathway was created. The red ribbons marked the approximate location of the property pin.

DSC02498.JPG APPLE TREE RIP — Tri-corner section.

DSC02493.JPG NORTH TALL TREE LITTLE MACHINES

DSC02418.JPG tree down w dust — Dusty landing… exactly where it was headed.

DSC02422.JPG the last tree to go — The last tree on the tree line, moments before it came down.

DSC02431.JPG wrangler w operator — Chomp…moving to chipper.

DSC02457.JPG LOWERING BIG LOG SEE MAN IN BUCKET — Down comes the log; stump digger waits its turn.

A walk with Sister down back…

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The closing date is near, and soon most of these blooming trees in the photos will be gone forever. Not all…the part being sold is about 1.7 acres, but the remaining six or so acres will remain family property. Here are a few of the phots I took the other day when Sister (my calico house cat) and I took a walk to the back, where the highway fence marks the edge of our land. Thanks for tagging along!

Sister surveying from a bird’s eye view.

DSC01826 nice long shot — Redbud and other blooming trees.

before mowing

Poppies & lilacs & rhododendrons O My!

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Poppy looks real, doesn’t it? (Yes, it is)

Front walk. Roses on right, Blue Holy on left.

Some kind of berry bush leaning on a tree for support.

Nice hay field. I wish the neighbor’s horses could come over.

This old plant is a wreck…until its ready to bloom.

A Rose in the Rain

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red n white rose in rain.JPG cropped (2) good ©Sometimes,2018

A walk with Peggy through nature’s beauty…and the heavy hand of man.

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Here are some shots from my walk to the back of our property. The flowers and trees are glorious this time of year, but as is obvious from some of these pictures the church clean-up crew did not seem to notice. They wanted to trim the foliage along the highway fence so traffic could see their church. We refused them access from our side of the fence, but the highway side was pretty well vulnerable to attack…the fence cut and some kind of heavy destruction equipment used to “trim” the trees. Reminds me for all the world of a small scale Mt. St. Helens after the volcano.

Peggy in the wild

DSC01858 wide shot of highway fence destruction

Who Doesn’t Fancy Pansies?

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Our first visit to our favorite greenhouse today. We ordered some red Million Bells, and some Lantana…for a couple of weeks from now. Meanwhile, some other plants are blooming…Rhododendron, and some Azaleas. Daffodils are done, Tulips still around but ready to make their exit shortly. So here are some Pansy Photos…

DSC01822.JPG lots of petunias — Rarin’ to go

DSC01823.JPG blue n white n other petunias — beautiful pansies

DSC01824.JPG yellow petunia up close — brilliant color

DSC01818.JPG magenata petunias — magenta pansies

DSC01819.JPG magenta petunias — neighbors

DSC01821.JPG rose pink petunias — pink pansies

DSC01820.JPG one pink petunia — Hey! Where is everybody?

Parrot Tulips early May pop-ups

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DSC01519.JPG red parrot cluster — Red Parrot Tulips

DSC01527 (1) white w red parrot tulips good crop — New this year.

DSC01531 (1) red tulip large center — Brilliant Colors

DSC01537.JPG grape hyacinth close good — Grape Hyacinth

DSC01539 (1) white parrot centr close up — My Favorite

DSC01538.JPG red parrot tulip

Nature’s imagination

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Nature keeps busy all right, ever creating whimsical and intriguing things.

DSC01346.JPG close rock — rock speaks for itself

DSC01351.JPG good shot rock — other view

DSC01358.JPG good log — natural still life

Direct Line…reblogging myself again

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Here is another of my early poems from back in the day (Oct. 2015 in this case…
Redundancy intended.)

Direct Line

The Moon, far away as it is bright
dims the brighter light of the stars
My eye sight follows the path of that light
passing the light-years between

Knowing full well the facts of the Moonlight
reflecting the light of the Sun,
it nevertheless leads me to imagine
that the Moon makes its own light from within.

Even if Galileo himself, who charted the Sun,
were to explain with patience and tact
I still would ignore him and blissfully say:
“Please don’t confuse me with facts.”

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