[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby, looks out the side door of the van with wide eyes. ] Tom had some Opinions about taking another walk. (He COULD have stayed at the van. I never make them follow me. They just DO, & then whine about it a lot.)
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[ In the foreground, a couple of pine trees & about twenty feet of rock-covered ground. Beyond that, the view opens up, looking down onto dense forest with blue sky above. ] It was SUCH a gorgeous spot. I wish the road to get there weren’t so rough — Tom had Opinions about it, &
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, & Major Tom, a grey tabby, under a pinyon tree; they’re next to each other, facing away from the camera & off to the left, but Tom is sitting, & Loiosh is standing, tail waving. ] They’re mirroring each other & it makes me happy. <3
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, walks through green grass, under a deep blue sky. ] The last time me & the boys were in Edgewood, Venus Park was closed for the plague, so we went up the hill into the Sandias instead. Nothing wrong with that, but Venus Park is really
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[ Bright yellow many-petalled flowers on tall green stalks ] Venus Park, if you take a quick look at it from the road, is a large, rectangular area of green grass that’s obvious watered on the regular, surrounded by brown, scrubby land that’s pretty typical of New Mexico. Take a closer look with me.
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[ A tall, straight pinyon pine dominates the photo; behind it, a scattering of other trees, a cliff of rough red stone, & above that, blue sky. ] I didn’t do Woods Day on Tuesday, as I usually do, because I was having a bad brain day, so I scheduled Auxiliary Woods Day for Saturday.
[ A steep, rocky slope, dotted with pinyon trees & lots of rocks; above that, the sky is dark grey. ] A perfect time to go rock climbing: right as the clouds roll in! … look, I didn’t say it was a GOOD idea.
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I mean LOOK at it, a nice little piñon grove, a seasonal creek behind low-growing cottonwoods & tall grass (alas, dry at the moment), & behind that, an entire-ass CLIFF to climb.
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[ A dense patch of relatively young Ponderosa pines, most with trunks less than six inches wide; the ground is deeply covered in pine needles. ] I found a nice thick patch of woods last Tuesday. Sometimes you want an open meadow; sometimes you just want trees.
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[ An interestingly-weathered tree stump, about two feet high & a foot and a half across. ] When I got to our spot in the woods last Tuesday, I saw this Very Excellent tree stump that I was pretty sure one cat or another would, eventually, use for Dramatical Posing.
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