Tag: my place

Dottie and Alice compete

Cats & Animals, Just For Fun, My Place, This and That

I decided to do this little thing, as good practice for putting images into my WordPress blog. Still rather intimidated, but I’m beginning to experiment with the New Editor and Blocks. If you click on the first photo a slideshow will appear. My captions on the individual photo aren’t included in the slideshow. Anybody know why?

(All photos and content on my blog, unless otherwise noted, are my own work. ©Sometimes, 2020.)

  • Dottie, can you please move? Alice is being cute, you’re in the picture.
  • No, I’m asleep.
  • Ok, I’ll aim higher.
  • She’s not all that cute.
  • I’m just as cute as she is.
  • Look at the position of her legs.
  • You want cute? Check this out!
  • Alice is acrobatic.
  • I ‘m going back to sleep.
  • Alice has three legs.
  • Toby says be quiet, I’m trying to sleep.
Sibling rivalry.

Autumn Ohio glory in full color

This and That
A late summer shot of my Tree Garden

A little (Hazel) nut tree is new this year.
My gorgeous Red Maple tree.

This Ginko Tree’s genes from the State House in Columbus, Ohio.

This giant Red Maple tree planted in 1940. Not sure of the genus of giant Yellow Tree across the road…
Another shot of the Yellow Tree.

(All photos ©Sometimes, 2020)

piggy-back grasshoppers

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge, My Place, Nature, photos, Sometimes, This and That

(photo ©Sometimes, 2020)

(I was sitting outside, minding my own business, when this critter ran into me and landed on the pavement nearby. I didn’t get a good look at it until later, when editing on my mainframe some snaps taken with my camera phone. Actually my subject was cats…so this grasshopper shot was a bonus.)

Spring Beauty exists forever in pictures…

My Place, photos, This and That

 

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Red & White Anniversary Tulip

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a lone white tulip in mini collection  

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Red parrot tulips and grape hyacinths  

 

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Whale Rock 

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Red & White Anniversary Tulip

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Red Tulips  

 

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Two Red Tulips  

 

 

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Red Enamel 

 

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Jonquils

 

DSC04486 PURPLE PLUM TREE IN BLOOM GOOD
Japanese Plum 

 

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Blooming Ornamental Apple, Japanese Plum  

 

 

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Showing Off  

DSC04469 (2) CLOSE RED TULIP VERY GOOD USE
Inner Beauty

 

My 2018 cat shelter (Part I)

Cats & Animals, My Place, Nature, photos, This and That, Writing and Blogging

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.

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

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

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Fluffy staked out this nest early on.

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An early arrangement, under temporary cover.

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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.

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

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under construction

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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.

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Fluffy

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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.

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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.

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

 

A walk with Sister down back…

My Place, Nature, Photographs, This and That

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!

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Daisies and a little bug.  

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Sister surveying from a bird’s eye view.  

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Pond through the trees.  

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Redbud and other blooming trees.

 

 

 

before mowing

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Poppies & lilacs & rhododendrons O My!

My Place, Nature, Sometimes, This and That, Writing and Blogging

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

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

 

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Bob 

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Clematis

 

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

 

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Poppy close upEnter a caption

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other Peony  

 

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glorious peony  

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Peony. 

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Li’L Kims…  smell divine.

 

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Li’l Kim lilacs  

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

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Two beauties.  

 

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

 

Beware—more shots of my late great Spider web

My Place, Nature, Photographs, This and That, Welcome to the Neighborhood

DSC00151.JPG WEB YARD GOOD
NOW WE SEE IT

DSC00148.JPG INVISIBLE WEB
NOW WE DON’T

 

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FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF WEB

“Late Great” because this web was in a very precarious position…as is normal for spiders, apparently…as this splendid construction was demolished quickly when I ran right into it and ended up wearing the web like a hair-net…or veil…I forgot it was there.   (Please see yesterday’s post for more web photos if you are so inclined.)

The deck is eight-feet wide.

By the way— my spider web photos are more about photography than spiders or webs.    I have tried repeatedly to capture various topics, and consider it a learning experience.

OH!    The spider is not really as big as she appears, she has a very large bug in her grip, we call it a stink-bug, triangular in shape.