Category: Animals
Double Dog
Native to North America
Raccoon. They are pesky mammals even though they might look cute. Rummaging through garbage cans is their specialty. They can carry disease. Rabies. Raccoons are immortalized in cartoons and song.
My grandson Jack sent me this photo he took Saturday night. Raccoon in a tree
I thought of two raccoons in my house. A painted rock and a stuffed animal one.
Beatles song https://youtu.be/qqA4ZiQaGtU?si=Dim0eSWL6L1xUVkc
And click if you want to see how many fictional raccoons you can identify
Wordless Wednesday
Turtles at Inniswood Botanical Garden
The turtle photos were taken with Canon 70-200 lens and 6D camera. The signs were captured with my iPhone camera.
April 23,2021
Sandhill Cranes -Guest Blog
Photos and text just in from Marlene in Florida.
the Sandhill Cranes –Antigone canadensis
They have a nest behind our site. The female and male take turns sitting on the nest. They walk around the campground checking everyone out. The other day I missed a great photo when an alligator swam over to the nest. The male Sandhill poked the alligator with his beak and the alligator swam off. Notice the red eyes they have. The male is a few inches taller then the female but hard tell when they are not together.
Owl in Massachusetts Guest Blog
During the Pandemic, I’ve been fortunate to receive photos from family and friends who live in different locations. They contribute to the blog and add interest. This is a collaborative effort by neighbors in Massachusetts.
I received a photo of an owl sitting on a snow covered wall from my longtime friend Linda Dempster.
Later Linda sent me another photo of the owl who’d flown up in a tree. She’d received it from her neighbor. I asked her to ask the neighbor if they’d consent to the owl in the tree photo being posted on the blog. So thank you Linda and neighbor Anne Laibe Bertalino for the interesting owl photos and being the guest bloggers today.
Photo by Anne Laibe Bertalino.
In 2012 my most popular post was from guest blogger Shuey in Florida with his barred owl photo.
Vintage Cat Postcards
Alfred Mainzer was the postcard publisher not the artist, according to this informative article in the Mousebreath Magazine The artist was Eugen Hartung from Switzerland. I have some unused postcards and I see that they sell on Etsy for up to $15 for a single card. I also have some written on by my father who was a definite fan of these cat cards. I know he used to buy them in the ’50s from a card shop in Montclair New Jersey run by Mr. Bert DeCamp.
The artist signed his initials in the corner in a heart which I never noticed before but I read that on Mousebreath
The Hartung postcards were first published in Switzerland by Max Kunzli of Zurich and then(from the 1940’s onwards) by the Alfred Mainzer Company of Long Island New York. Each card is signed with the artist’s monogram, a little heart in the lower right corner. (Because of cropping, sometimes the heart gets chopped off.)
Some are printed in Turkey and some printed in Spain.
LOOK WHO IS KNITTING A SOCK (using double point needles)
A cat is afraid of a runaway mouse?
Fabric background by Firecracker Fabrics.
Red Shouldered Hawk Niceville FL Guest Blog
Shuey’s most viewed Guest Post was the regal Barred Owl in 2012 the Blue Jerk was another Thanks for the wonderful contributions.
https://rutheh.com/2012/03/12/barred-owl-niceville-florida-guest-post/
If You Have a Cat, Crafting With Cat Hair
Did you know there was such a thing? I saw this book for sale at Target.
Crafting With Cat Hair. By Kaori Tsutaya, I’ve been to an art installation with dryer lint sculpture. Not Cat Hair. Yet.
Clearly not for anyone with a cat allergy.
I didn’t open it up to look inside but maybe next time. The price tag just under the book says Dog Shampoo ?
I thought to myself, who would love and use this book?
