Zoolatry

March 26, 2025

WORDLESS ~ OR ~

I suggested to mine Mommy that it was best she remain wordless.

Of course, she could use a wholabunch of emojis ...

😆😒😕😖🙅🙉💦💣👎💢💭😉

💩💩💩

March 25, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JUNE

2020 ~ March: I arrived, along with three other kits, right when the worldwide pandemic began.

And in October, found my furever home at Zoolatry ... with, well, you know who.

2021 ~ Mine Mommy put together some pictures from our first year, well it wasn't quite

a whole year ... it had been just "us" ... and that's kind of why, even now, I'm still shy,

we'd been mostly housebound and I never got to meet too many other peoples.

For my birthday in 2022, when I was 2 years old, again, she shared lots

of pictures of me, myself and I ... old ones, new ones and fun ones!

And when I was 3 ... 2023,

it was just pictures of my face: how much it had changed ...

from little to big!

2024 ~ I posed so nicely. And with polka dot candles!

I wanted to show off ~ to show how I was growing up now to become

a proper lady cat! Of course, sometimes I still did (and still do)

"kitten things" ~ get zoomies, chew things maybe I shouldn't chew,

hiss at visitors I don't know well (sorry) ... but I'm learning good manners

everyday and almost ready to graduate kittengarten!

March 25, 2025

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY JUNE

Another "I'm a lady" pose! She says I have to wait till supper time to open

my purrsent ~ but all day long I'll get extra cuddles and pets (even tho I'm still

not a lap cat), some extra brushies (I do so love those) ... and even

a second helping of treats (nothing better than that!).

Who doesn't love a birthday, specially when it's their own!

By the way, I share this day with a special friend, Miss Olivia, from

MY GBGV LIFE. She is 6 years old today and always has a very special party

celebration ~ so please be sure to go visit her today, too. Meow!

OLIVIA'S BONE PHOTO SHOOT

March 24, 2025

Sunday evening, March 23, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. An annual ceremony honoring American humor first began in 1998 and has continued every year since, except during the pandemic years of 2020/21.

Here, sharing a direct quote from a story in this mornings Washington Post 3/24/2025, written by Travis M. Andrews, titled:

COMICS ROAST CONAN O'BRIEN, TORCH TRUMP AT KENNEDY CENTER'S TWAIN PRIZE

Twain was suspicious of "mindless American might," O'Brien said.

"He loved America but knew it was deeply flawed."

Quoting Twain, he said,

"Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and

your government when it deserves it."

Posting and commenting politically. It is often said that two things can be true at the same time. I believe this absolutely applies to the statement above, and so rewriting for this time and place to say: "now, in this time and this place, we can be patriotic, we can and must support our country in every way possible ~ yet, not be supportive of the government we have, for it does not deserve our support."

Whatever "label" you choose: Democrat, Republican, Independent, Liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Moderate choose: Fight, not flight. Every individual, every institution, everything that has made the "United" States united ~ united, strong, powerful, productive, and once a place of freedom for all ~ is being ripped apart every hour of every day. Silence is not golden.

March 23, 2025

SUN~DAY~ZZzzz

March 22, 2025

CATURDAY ART

Above: original photo, one I liked very much and just thought it was clean and interesting unto itself, but still might be an image to "play" with.

Below: the altered version. Using Adobe Creative Cloud, a light yellow/orange overlay of the satin tool to mimic sunlight. The "satin" tool is basically somewhat automatic, available in various shapes - you simply select the shape you like - that lay atop your image, then choose the percentage of color you want applied. After this first step, I then used the "dodge" tool to highlight June's face and belly furs to return them to her more original white coloring.