PHOTO HUNT: BIRDS

PHOTO HUNT: MUSIC

Aunt Eugenia (Aunt Gene), a violinist with the

Reading (PA) Symphony Orchestra.

Photoshop enhanced and framed.

PHOTO HUNT: MILITARY

PHOTO HUNT: TIED

Earlier this month, the ZH let me paint my room a purrty zorange color. I had a little of the paint left over and thought I'd do her a favor and paint the porch.

She didn't like that too much.

I really don't know what she meant, but I heard her say,

"ZOEY ~ I AM FIT TO BE TIED!"

PHOTO HUNT: SPORTS

One of my favorite things to do with Photoshop is to create "memory books". Over the past several years I've done about a dozen of them for family members. And perhaps another half-dozen specialty albums: wedding albums, a promotional album for a cake shop owner, and a memorial album for a young teenager who passed away unexpectedly. I found traditional photo albums somewhat boring, but enjoy holding a book in my hands. Slide shows and 8mm home movies are a thing of the past to me, viewing on a television or computer screen seems to lack personality, the ability to move back and forth, to linger on a image. The process of creating a memory book can be challenging and time consuming, most will take six months or more to design and print the basic forty-pages. All the albums are high resolution prints, in an 8.5 and 11 page size. What is shown here is greatly reduced in size. Most of the pages have a common theme, working in color, borders, type and sometimes a heavily-altered image. The pages below are from some of our family albums and all feature todays "sports" theme... pictures of the grandchildren and other family members involved in sporting activities. Please enjoy!

Soccer ~ Mini Racers ~ Basketball

Skiing ~ Roller Skating

First Swim Lesson ~ First Swim Meet
Little Football Fan ~ Slam Dunk Zoey ~ Kayaking

More Basketball

PHOTO HUNT: WORDS

The ZH has been very excited lately, and doing odd things around the house. She says a new kitteh is coming soon. Well, maybe not meowing kitteh, but rather one of those human "bachcha's". It will be the third grandbean for the ZH, a "chhele" grandbean. The "mata" is her daughter and the "baba" is her son-in-law. "Baba" is from Calcutta, (Kolkata) India. So I thought I should learn some Bengali words, the language spoken in that region. Above are some of the words I am studying. I am a bit worried though, because I have not yet found the word for "cat" or the word for "meow" or the word for "Zoey". Oh, and I guess it's almost time I should start calling the ZH "nani" and I should go tell the Zoolatry Dad he is "dadu".

PHOTO HUNT: TWISTED

Living on Florida's Space Coast for nearly 20-years has given us the opportunity to view many shuttle launches from KSC and many rocket launches from Cape Canaveral AFS. There were times we were up-close-and-personal, at the KSC Banana River VIP site. Other times we've watched from the beach, from the Indian River, or the dock at our home on Sykes Creek when we lived there. We've seen them at sunrise and sunset, in heat and in cold, daytime and the dark of night. They never fail to amaze. Those of us who live on the Space Coast know the excitement of the space program, NASA and KSC. But we also know it's value, contributions and importance, and hope that NASA will receive sufficient government funding to continue its scientific exploration of our universe.

Above, left: About a year ago, we took my Mom, then 95 years old, to a friends high rise condo on the river -- she saw her first ever shuttle launch. The sight of the TWISTED smoke plume is beautiful as the shuttle leaves earth, the sounds are powerful, depending on wind direction there may be smells of fuel or exhaust, the ground will shudder below your feet.

Above, right: It's always fun to spend a day at KSC with my grand daughter. Top: she is TWISTED inside an old space capsule from the moon launch days, the capsules were small and cramped in those days, allowing no movement and the astronaut would be in some TWISTED position for the entire flight. Bottom: simulated weightlessness, just like the astronauts, and you can TWIST and turn at will.

CATWALK CATURDAY and PHOTO HUNT: ELECTRIC

We're on the Catwalk today ~ supporting our friend MISHA for New Zealand's Next Top Cat Model. Please ~ if you haven't yet voted, click and go vote! Purrplease. You might be happy to know I got a "paws up" from Tyra, Tim and Heidi for my runway performance: a girl can never have enough fur, so here I am modeling my fur boa with matching pillbox. It's rather subtle I'll admit, but the designer signature is on the back of my pillbox. And don't you love the way the stylist chose a gold toof ring as the ultimate accessory? As they say in the design world, less is more. Oh, and lest anyone have concerns: my furs are of course quite real and luxurious, the furs I am modeling here however are "faux".

BELOW: PHOTO HUNT: ELECTRIC

PHOTO HUNT: ORANGE

The nightlamp that sits on an old secretary desk in the foyer.

PHOTO HUNT: SURPRISE

PHOTO HUNT: RIPPLES

This is the purrtend fish tank the Zoolatry Human made for me.

The only time it RIPPLES is when I put my paws in the water to catch a fish.

If my Zavatar puts his paws in the water, it will RIPPLE.

He is not supposed to play in my fish tank. But then neither am I.

The fish are for watching, not catching.

PHOTO HUNT: ARTIFICIAL

ARTIFICIAL

This is a photoshopped work of six cats.

Four of these cats are artificial.

Two of these cats are not, they are Maggy and Zoey.

PHOTO HUNT: ENTERTAINMENT

PHOTO HUNT: UTENSILS

PHOTO HUNT ~ ROCKS

We had so many "ROCKS" pictures for

today's Photo Hunt,

we decided to use them all!

PHOTO HUNT: FLAG

Our flag stands proud and tall, even when the home below may not.

Our flag stands proud and tall and honors those who live here.

Original photo taken by my daughter, a reporter with FloridaTODAY,

for a news story about a year ago on homeless veterans in our community.

PHOTO HUNT: CREAMY

A creamy cat and a creamy bear, both sitting on a creamy chair.

PHOTO HUNT: LOCK

What's behind the locked door?

PHOTO HUNT: BOOKS

I think it is very important for every kitteh to be well read. How else can we live up to the standard of "smarty cat"? I have many good books, one of my favorites is THE TOOTH BOOK by Dr. Seuss. Another favorite book was written and illustrated by Karl, of The Cat Realm and he sent a copy to me. It is a book loaded with helpful hints for kittehs (sort of an Erma Bombeck for four-footed furry ones) -- such as "keep your teeth clean: chew your bones". I always kind of wondered if Karl had me in mind for that particular hint! And like our human companions, I like to keep some reading material in that special "reading room" I refer to as my "litter library". I'm sure you have a litter-library in your house... you do, don't you?

PHOTO HUNT: PAINTED

THE ADVENTURES OF ZOEYPAWS SAWYER

"with a wink and a tail-wag to Mark Twain"

Once upon a time, in the 1800s, I lived in a little village called

St. Petersburg, in Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River.

My cousin was named TomCat Sawyer, and he was known to be the

village "bad cat". At times, I could be mischievous too.

Once when TomCat was especially naughty, our

Aunt PollyPurrs said he had to whitewash the fence as

his punishment. No Temptations for him that day!

But instead, TomCat got together with his really wicked

whiskered friend, HuckFurrocious Finn. They stole an

old dinghy and drifted away down river in search of

feline adventures. I didn't want TomCat to be in more

trouble whenever he came home, so I went off to

Aunt PollyPurrs house to whitewash her fence.

Perhaps I got a bit carried away that day.

But then I am a colorful cat.

I prefer a colorfully painted fence!