Short Adventure
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For dVerse Poets Open Link Night
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I am so happy that it is “Last on the Card” time again. I took these three photos and could not figure out what category they’d fit into…until Forgottenman reminded me it was time for Bushboy’s Last on the Card prompt.
I had never seen this butterfly before. It was sitting on the ledge above Morrie’s cage and I saw it when I was giving them their morning meal. It seemed not to be able to fly. I tried gently moving it to make sure the feet weren’t stuck to the ledge and also carefully spread its wings a bit to make sure they weren’t stuck together by cobwebs or some other environmental danger. I then took it out and put it on a plant and never saw it again. I hope it flew away. It is a Smyrna blomfildia, The Blomfild’s beauty, a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae and among other locales, is found from Mexico down to Panama. Beautiful markings.
As for the other photos, if you look carefully, you’ll see what has captured Morrie’s interest. They remained like this for some minutes. No barking, only occasional meowing. I had already fed them both so don’t know what other than curiosity caused Ollie to come and observe us from the roofline.
The silhouette of the trees and bougainvillea was actually the last on the card, so had to include it. The others were second and third to last.
For Bushboy’s Last on the Card
I spotted this rabbit who seemed unspooked in spite of the constant barking of a dog in the background. Then I noticed why the rabbit, unlike the dog, was unperturbed.
For Cellpic Sunday.
Heeeeeere’s Annie! Garbed in her new collar and i.d. tag. Today she learned not to be scared in a room with 5 people in it, learned how to play with her sisters and brother, discovered she preferred cat food to the very expensive puppy food my vet sold me, discovered she liked chewing on the corners of rugs, and decided she is only secure when her new mom is in the room or in the yard with her. May create problems. Tomorrow I’ve hired her a babysitter. She’ll go stay with Yoli, Yolanda’s daughter, while I go to Brad’s for lunch and then to an art show at the new Riberas Art Center.
P.S. She looks big here, but she is really tiny. Less than 2 kilos. Here is a photo of her next to a 12 inch ruler. She prefers sleeping on the floor to sleeping in her cushy bed. Perhaps she smells Zoe on the cushion and wants her own?
Rooting around in old photos, I found another favorite. This was a friend’s dog. I was staying in the guest casita behind their house and every morning her sweet dog would bring me a gift.
If you have a favorite photo you’d like to share, please give a link in comments.
Zoe and Christine got on just fine. Here they are in deep conversation. Please click to enlarge the photos.
Please click on photos to enlarge and see details. I used Photos editing on my Mac, then Picasso, Sketch and Beauty on the LunaPic Art Setting.
Here’s the challenge: https://www.thesquirrelchase.com/2022/04/01/one-to-three-photo-processing-challenge-april-2022/
Here are a few (?) Zoe videos for those of you not tired of viewing her adventures. They are pretty short so thought you might have the patience and interest to watch all three.
Zoe’s Big Climb: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MyqxVMITjho
Zoe and Her Baby Bee: https://youtu.be/GGDTdo9_bzo
Zoe’s Newest Friend: https://youtu.be/pNKl3CgKyms
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