[ Wide green leaves surround tiny, pale pinky-purple flowers, each with five long, narrow petals. ] All photos, once again, by Jasper. Tiny pinky-purple flowers:
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, stands on a rock, facing away from the camera and towards a stretch of rocks with trees in the background. His tail is caught mid-lash. ] I spent last week in Colorado! I went up for a bunch of reasons, but the biggest one involved alpacas.
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[ A small camping area, with a picnic table and a fire pit; massive boulders rise all around the clearing. ] Camping in the ‘woods’ was fun, but sometimes what one really wants is a place to poop. … look, no, you know it’s true. Anyway I found a TRULY awesome campground. Which happened to
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[ A deer is standing right out in the open, probably thirty feet from the camera, looking on curiously, ears perked forward. They’re really big ears. ] Sometimes when you’re on the road, especially with cats, you need to find a place to spend the afternoon, cos it’s gonna be too hot in the van
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[ A meadow rising to rocks and trees; the sky above is cloudy. ] Having unloaded, but not yet having made contact with the realtor, I decided to find a spot in the national forest for the weekend. … for a fairly liberal definition of ‘forest’ but there WERE some trees.
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[ Tyrava’s back doorknob, a fancy black lever, is fastened to a heavy-duty handle next to the door by a bungee cord. ] Not long after setting out — in fact, before I’d actually left the driveway — I realized that Tyrava was having a problem, which was that her back door wasn’t staying shut.
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[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a purple harness, stands in the doorway of the van, looking off to the side. ] Couple weeks back I packed Tyrava full of Stuff, shoved the boys in the van, & drove north to Colorado to look for land! I decided to go over Wolf Creek
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is laying at his ease on a concrete patio. His leash, also green, is draped decoratively around him, and his eyes are mostly squinted shut. ] Friday the weather was decent & Loiosh was a WIGGLEBUTT, so I took him along to Gallup for a wander.
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[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a black harness, is standing on the van’s front passenger seat, looking out the window. Loiosh, an orange tabby, is meatloafed on the seat, and Tom is almost standing on Loiosh’s head. ] They look so eager! Well. Tom looks eager. Loiosh looks like Tom could maybe
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, walks across a rough dirt parking lot. Behind him are tall radio antennae & a small green maintenance building. ] After we got down from the lookout tower (or at least the paved area around it) I headed back to the van but the boys wanted
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