Yes, we've been around awhile now, 16 years as of this coming June. We've never been a blog to carry advertising, and have no intere...

THE LETTER Y ~ YELLOW A soft yellow glow fills the magnificent two story grand entrance hall of the Garrett Jacobs mansion as I enter on thi...

THE LETTER X ~ XANDER And here I thought finding a post for The Letter X would be hard! Xander, he'll be a year old near the end of June...

THE LETTER W ~ WOODIES Clockwise from top left: the Yellow Bellied Woodpecker, the Downy Woodpecker and the Pileated Woodpecker.  I am now a...

 THE LETTER V ~ VICTORY Soccer has grown in the U.S. in popularity in recent years.   My children were largely unfamiliar with this internat...

THE LETTER U ~ UNDERWATER Both of my Sunshine State grandchildren were water-babies from the start, and in their early teen years learned to...

THE LETTER T ~ TIME Time.  Is it your enemy, or your friend?  Sometimes both, sometimes it is what you choose it to be.  Sometimes you are s...

THE LETTER S ~ SUNRISE It is said there is no yesterday, tomorrow has not yet arrived and we have only today, the present.  To see the new d...

THE LETTER R ~ REAR In the pet community we're rather silly about photographing our pets nether regions a/k/a the rear end or what we te...

Q-TIP June is not a cat who favors many traditional cat toys and doesn't care for nip in any form.  But she does have a penchant for man...

THE LETTER P ~ PIRATES Pirate. Picaroon. Plank. Parrot. Plunder. Pub. Peg-leg. Pistol. Privateer.  Puns. Parody. Paws. Photoshop!  September...

THE LETTER O ~ ON and OFF See my little green ball. It is on the table. Any minute now I will knock it off the table. I am a cat, and w hen ...

  THE LETTER N ~ NIPPER If you visit Zoolatry from time to time, you might have met NIPPER before, he lives just up the street from us.  We ...

THE LETTER M ~ MOM I was always the welcome recipient of old family photos when offered by others who might be downsizing and ready to pass ...

THE LETTER L ~ LOVE and LOSS We love our pets, knowing when they arrive to become part of our homes and our hearts that our time together wi...

  K  I  T  E Ooops. Photographed at Sherwood Gardens, Baltimore, April 2023.

JUNE  

INDIGO INDIGO is a deep, rich shade of blue and violet, though these foam building blocks are really a bright true blue.  Photographed on a ...

HAPPY, HAPPIER, HAPPIEST I am always happy when spending time with any of my grandchildren, here with my youngest. Photo, late autumn 2022. ...

GRAND The DC metropolitan area was my home for nearly 23-years, living in northern Virginia but commuting daily across the Memorial Bridge (...