Cat Bees

May 20 was World Bee Day!

Folks, we'll really be in the soup if there are no bees; their pollinating efforts create food for so many critters, including humans.

No bees = no food.

Our governments need to focus on saving our planet and ALL of its inhabitants, as should every person who lives here.

The Bee Conservancy: Learn more: 10 Ways to Save The Bees:

1. Support and Preserve Bee Habitats

2. Go Chemical-Free for Bees

3. Choose Bee-Friendly Plants

4. Go Underground for Bees

5. Trees for Bees

6. Let Stems Bee

7. Always Bee Learning (and Sharing!)

8. Bee a Volunteer

9. Engage in Community Science

10. Bee the Change: Take Action

Please be nice to the bees!

However, bees are insects, and to me, they don't really make great subjects for artification, so here's a sleepy Manny, with Lunapic's Color Pencil Sketch Effect, then the Mono filter in iPhoto.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Henry Update:

Henry seems to be sailing along.

If not with his past exuberance, then with at least an interest in watching out the windows, and hanging with his humans.

The H Man now walks across our bodies, and has nestled atop me like a mountaineer scaling great heights, with at least one paw squashing some unmentionable part of me.

😹😹😹

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Curly

Purring for Ellen and David at 15 And Meowing, as their beloved Penny earned her angels wings.

Correction! Badge created by Ann @ Zoolatry

💔 😿 💔

For Caturday, Henry is being so darn cute, so I snapped a photo of him, then artified it with both Prisma and Lunapic.

Forget to memorize the filters used, my bad, but I like them all!

Original

#1 Lunapic 

#2 Lunapic

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle

#3 Prisma

Which one do you like the most?

Made a jigsaw puzzle out of the middle image.

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Pet Pixels

April 11 is National Pet Day, to appreciate our pets and raise awareness about animals in need of adoption.

Adopt, Don't Shop.

For today's Caturday artified image, we have Da Boyz snuggled up while napping, then I pixelated it on Lunapic.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Unfortunately, I've had to change comments to this blog to 'always moderate'.

So annoying!

Maybe they'll give up after awhile...well, I can hope.  🤨

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Henry Update:

He's holding his own.

On Tuesday, he was at 1 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the lowest.

Friday, I'd rate him at 6.5, but the force is strong in Henry!

Cannot imagine how I'd handle this if I was working full-time still, and you know what?

My old team has been called back into the office, rather than working remotely.

Glad to be off of that merry-go-round, but it's fun to meet up for lunch with my former co-workers to catch up once in awhile.

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Brooding

It's time for Sunday Selfies!

Chili Bruce took a second from his perusal of the backyard at the backdoor, to snap this selfie.

He saw nothing out there, since it's frigid and every critter is snuggled deep in their nests or burrows.

He looks a bit Heathcliffy, no?

Love the way the lighting shows off his various fur colors.

Used Lunapic, Dark filter, to artify this selfie.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Bunny Rabbit

It's Sunday Selfies!

Dipped into our photo library under January 18, and this lovely image of Celestial Angel appeared, taken January 18, 2020.

One of her nicknames was Bunny Rabbit.

Popped it into Lunapic, using the Scribble filter, and made a jigsaw puzzle.

Click on the image above to get puzzling.

*** NOTE: Jigsaw Puzzle for yesterday's post is fixed!  Sorry. ***

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Boopable

For Sunday Selfies, Henry tried his best!

I think he's so darn cute, even blurry and his snoot right in the camera lens.

Go ahead, boop dat nose!

Click on the image above to enjoy a Lunapic retro-filtered jigsaw puzzle version.

😻 ❤️ 😻

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Angelic

It's Caturday!

Chili Bruce is our model today, up on top of the refrigerator.

I used Lunapic's Dream FX filter, and he looks like he's glowing.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Hugs in Noir

It's Caturday!

Manny and Chili Bruce are so adorable when snuggled together.

I used iPhoto to make the image black and white, then used Lunapic's Scribble filter.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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First Sight

It's Caturday!

May 2, 2009: our first sighting of Celestial Sweetie.

She lived outside until March 2020, when we brought her inside to live in pampered retirement.

Today, I grabbed a pic of Sweetie, used the Lunapic 'Dark' filter, then zhuzhed it a bit more.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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The Sparkenator

Sadly, we lost a beloved family member on Thursday.

Sparky lived for over 17 years, and was happy to have his human brothers and sister with him over the recent holidays.

My sister and BIL are heartbroken.

😿 Farewell, Angel Sparkenator 💔

For Caturday, I artified Sparky in Lunapic with the Space filter, then added a vignette.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Cutie

It's Caturday!

Henry was such a good model; Lunapic did the rest.

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Jazz

It's Caturday!

A pic of Henry, jazzed up in Lunapic, then more filtering in iPhoto.

Groovy, man!

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Late?!?

It's Caturday, and Manny looks like he's terrified that he'd missed his supper while napping on top of the fridge!

Do not fear, little one.

You'd already had your meal, and your humom was just snapping pics of you since the sunlight coming in the north-facing window was tantalizing to her sense of photographic style.

You were just in the right place at the right time.

I used Lunapic's Sketch filter.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Looking Out

It's Caturday!

Here are Da Boyz, watching out the open window.

I played around with Lunapic, and make sure to click on the image below to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

This image reminds me of this:

😹

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Wild

Henry's look of woe tugged at my heartstrings, so I went noir with Lunapic's effect-emboss filter.

She appears like a little wild thing, and our scruffy deck boards only add to the rugged, outcast feel.

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Wood Poppy

It's Caturday!

After a recent rainstorm, I snapped an image of the wet leaves of the Wood Poppy plant in our front garden.

Changing it to noir, it's now the wallpaper on this blog.

Then, I played in Lunapic and liked this color combination.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

By the way, we regained power after 25 hours without.

Not too bad; when it lasts days, it's a drag, man!

Chatted up a few utility workers, the firedudes several times, and a city engineer who told me about his upcoming wedding and tour boat on the Rhine honeymoon.

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4th Force

Our dear friend Ernie has earned his angel wings.

Celestial Ernie and Wally are now together at The Rainbow Bridge.
Leave a kind word at The Island Cats.

😿😿😿

May The 4th Be With You

We hear ya, Yoda!

For Caturday, my boyfriend Sly modeled nicely, then I played around on Lunapic.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Purply

It's Caturday!

Da Boyz, being adorable.

Artified with Prisma and an Lunapic border, and then they are rocking the purple.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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