[ A close view of a Ponderosa tree; the outer layers of bark are scorched black, but much of the black has broken away to show the orange-tan bark beneath. ] The fire here was older than the fire at the last place I looked. How much older? No idea. I’m still learning this stuff.
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[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a purple and black harness, is squatting on a big stump, glaring at the camera. Tall trees rise in the background. ] I got two, count em, two good Dramatical Posing shots on Woods Day. Everything else came out looking like this.
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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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[ A three inch wide, six inch long flat golden-copper ring in an almost rectangular shape reminiscent of a teddy bear, with small specks and eight holes equally spaced around the edge. It hangs suspended from two copper wire hooks through holes on the short ends. Hanging below it from some of the other holes
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[ Loiosh, a small orange tabby kitten wearing a sea blue harness, is sitting on a big tree branch. His ears are perked forward. ] Didn’t manage Woods Day last week — the weather just did NOT allow — so I dug up some pictures of Loiosh’s first time in a tree. He was SO
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[ A grove of tall Ponderosa pines, rising over ground covered in pine needles. The sun peeks through the trees to the upper right, and sunbeams pierce the air. ] I don’t know how to express how good it was to be back in the woods. I don’t … have the words for it, for
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[ An orange tabby wearing a green harness stands on a couple of rocks roughly his size, body facing the camera but head turned to gaze up to the left. ] Loiosh welcomed the chance to employ some Dramatical Posing.
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is sniffing at the base of a Ponderosa pine. The bottom three feet or so of the bark is lightly charred. ] Two days ago I FINALLY managed to do Woods Day. Y’all, I need to prioritize Woods Day more, because I needed that BAD. Spending
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[ It’s a Royal Danish butter cookies tin. The kind we all found as kids, and pried open, expecting cookies, only to find sewing supplies. ] Y’all know what’s in this, right?
[ 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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