Leaf Like

It's PO'Monday!

November, 2014, and Celestial Paddy O'Malley was enjoying the fallen leaves.

He liked being petted.

He liked sunshine!

He liked to wait for me on the front porch.

Paddy was one-in-a-million.

❤️ 🍁 😻

Tabby in Golden Light

It's PO'Monday.

The following Celestial Paddy O'Malley images are from November 3, 2018.

Oh, to be out in the yard with Paddy O again!

 🍁 ❤️ 🍂

Postcards from NYC: Central Park

While I was away, Julie earned her angels wings.
Too sad.
Please leave a kind word at Mickey's Musings.

😿

We walked and rambled through Central Park every day last week; it was always a delight, being a feast for the eyes.

We walked miles along the paths, enjoyed the dog walkers with their pups, and my sister and I had really great conversations while making our way around.

Although it was brisk, our exercise kept us warm.

And at no time did we feel unsafe while there.

🍁😽🍂

Amidst the Leaves

Mother Nature shows off in our native plants gardens:

Stonecrop

Mapleleaf Viburnum

Early Meadow Rue

White Snakeroot

Thimbleweed

Wild Geranium

We allow the autumn leaves to fall and stay in our backyard, and are thankful for it.

The leaves are havens for overwintering insects.

Some day, our entire yard...front and back...will have no lawn, only plants and trees that are the same as what was in our part of Michigan before Europeans came a'calling.

The wildlife and ecosystem evolved together, and invasive species take away nutrition and pollinators.

Wild plants are acclimatized to Michigan's seasons, and therefore are almost maintenance free.

There is one plant, however, that volunteered itself, yet must go:

🙀Poison Ivy🙀

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Drooly Pommy

It's PO'Monday!

November, 2019.

Celestial PO'M made me enjoy Autumn, as he seemed unaffected.

Sitting with him for hours, as he purred, drooled, and played at being silly, he helped ease me into the season.

❤️🍁🍂🍁💖

Note:

Am on vacation this week, and am traveling by plane for the first time in years.

Quite exciting, and yet major trepidations swirl through my brain.

The Hubby remains home, so no cat will have their routine changed.

Should I miss a post or some comments, it's 'cause I'm checking one big trip off of my 'to-do' list.

More to come.

Alone

It's PO'Monday!

Late October, 2013.

Celestial Pommy seemed comfortable with Autumn.

His fur colors blended well with the landscape.

While on a recent nature walk, as Mother Nature whispered into my ear with a light wind, and her palette of leaf colors dazzled my eyes, it occurred to me that I once spent hours each and every day with Paddy, out in the yard.

I'd sit on the back deck, or wander about, and he would trail me wherever I went.

Warm, cold, sunny, rainy; we were a team.

The yard is so lovely now, with yellows, reds, greens, rusts, and oranges.

But it's lonely.

Autumn Remembrance

It's Sweetnesday!

A few pic of Outside Sweetie, in October 2019.

Her last Autumn in the yard.

🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

 

Leaf Beauty

Had a bit of fun with my collection of fallen leaves.

Celestial Angel, enjoying the Autumn sunshine.

Sweetie, surrounded by fallen leaves.

Celestial Paddy O'Malley, in all his autumn-colored glory.

November 2019 Outside Sweetie

It's Sweetnesday!

Images from Sweetie's final Autumn as an outside cat.

The falling leaves are in sharp contrast with her dark fur.

Sweetie peeking out from behind a wind block ie an old door found in the barn.

Sweetie may not look back on her years outside, but I do!

The memory of first time she allowed me to pet her will stay in my heart furever.

It took years for her to trust me, and now, we snooze together every night, and she joins my Zoom meetings during the workweek with howls.

I, for one, am delighted! 

😽😻😽

Shadow and Light

It's PO'Monday!

These images were taken on 3 November, 2019.

It's amazing the difference in Celestial Paddy's fur colors, due to shadow and light...

...and then, there was his silly side!

😹😽😹

When The Leaves Fall

Autumn has been when my anxiety mounted.

For the now non-existent 'O' Cats, and the coming cold weather.

Celestial PO'M is now missing his 2nd autumn, but I still can see him in my mind's eye, in the yard, searching the gardens, or waiting for me on the deck. 

While I miss him desperately, I am thankful that we had over a decade together.

Paddy O' matched the colors of Fall, didn't he?

Photos taken in November, 2014.

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Turtle and Opossum

Michigan had beautiful weather on Saturday, and being a college football widow, I spent hours outside with Mother Nature and her children.

Today's Sunday Selfie was made by Miss Woody, a wood turtle kept at the Nature Center of Stony Creek Metropark, in Shelby Township, Michigan.

Miss Woody!

This possum was enjoying snacks that had fallen from the bird feeder.

The colors were so bright!

So many beautiful images while enjoying the nature trails.

Below is a video of Stony Creek, burbling as it flowed beneath a bridge.

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Autumn Leaf

It's Caturday!

Had fun with my Prisma app, on a garden photo.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Sorry, this one is kind of hard, so reset the settings to enjoy it however you'd like to.

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Change

It's PO'Monday!

The weather swings wildly at this time of year: frost, warmth, storms, wind, sun, and clouds.

The images below are from 2018, and about this same time of year.

Paddy's fur coloring matched very well with Mother Nature!

Frosty maple leaf.

Whiskery!

Pawprints in the frost.

Ahh, warm sunshine!

Note:

Excuse me for being a bit scarce here and there; am hoping things will settle soon.