My Own Charlotte

Wednesday night I was outside
and my face ran into a cobweb that I couldn't see.

It felt like a big one.

All I could think about was
that the spider was on me!

I turned the outside light on and this is what I found:

She is so cute inside the agapanthus!
(you should click on that picture to see just how cute she is)

I named her Charlotte.

I knew she would be remaking her web
the next night and was determined to get her picture.

So I watched and waited.

And waited and watched.

She didn't like the flash very much
and kept running back to the safety of her flower.

Inside I would go to wait for her to come back
out of the flower and start building again.

I eventually figured this was going to
be a long process and decided to go to bed.

When I left her she was still spinning her web,
I'm sure thinking of all the glorious food she
would be able to catch once she finished.

This is what I woke up to in the morning:

"RADIANT"

I wonder how long it took her to create that?

And this picture, while it isn't the greatest
of quality, shows you where she built her web:

Right smack dab in the middle of the walkway to the barn.

The perfect place for someone to walk right into it :)

Bobo, Seven & Vinnie

I think Bobo has given up and realized
that I'm not going to stop taking pictures of him.

When the girls aren't with us I have limited subjects,
so every other week you may be seeing lots of cats.


This is Seven. She is about sixteen.

She once had 7 kittens.
We named them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.


This is Bobo's brother, Vinnie.


We thought with the name Vinnie
he would sort of be a thug.

He's a big baby.

The Prince

This is Prince.

He's my neighbor and I adore him.

I got to know him after Hurricane Katrina knocked our fence down.

Without a fence I got to see him every day!

Then the fence went back up.

But....

a board "fell" out of the fence and I won't let Duane put it back up.

With the board back in place it makes it difficult to feed him Milkbones.

And he likes Milkbones :)

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photo by: Blaire

Meow

I've been playing around with the new camera this morning.

There are only so many things that I can take pictures of in the backyard if the girls aren't awake, but the cats were available.

I've decided that Bobo is a brat.

Well, I already knew that, but now I have proof.

For every picture that he would actually look at the camera
I have 10 pictures where he would not.

I finally was able to get a few good ones though.

Vinnie on the other hand loves to have his picture taken.

You can always count on him to be the center of attention.

Unless you're a stranger.

Then you won't even know that he exists.

Unless you get a glimpse of the black and white blur
running to the bedroom to hide.