Foto Friday

So I have this digital camera and all... I might as well put it to some use, eh? :)

Onward!

A couple yard photos

When we first looked at the house back in March, there was a fairly small, bare tree in the backyard that I assumed was probably a crabapple or a cherry by the way the branches looked (and its size). To both of our surprise, it has turned into a VERY full, very tall maple tree...



Yes... it's in bad need of pruning! For height reference, the white building behind the tree is our garage. The tree's probably a good 18-20 feet tall.

As a tangent to the "you never know until you see it in summer..." concept, we have a naturally developing archway forming off of the driveway into the side part of the yard:



(and you get an idea of what our yard looked like last weekend, and how it mostly looks now. It's a tad overgrown. We plan on fixing that).

I'd like to eventually put an actual lattice archway here, and maybe put wisteria or some sort of other climbing flower to hang over it. A developed opening to the side yard would be pretty, I think. :)


And Feline Friday Photos

(because Minarae isn't the only one with cute kitties...

Colley spends a lovey moment with Erich...



Because that's what the CollBall does on a regular basis with EVERYONE. He's a big puffalump. Really.


Fizz and Gus do a Black Cat Standoff. (you have NO idea how many photos I have of them doing these mirror things. It's fucking creepy.) Fizz is the one facing the camera.




Gus, being the loving Big Gay Cat that he is, seeks some attention from Colley, and does an Offensive Flop to get his way...



And he's none too happy with my invasion of his cat moment, either, trying to wetnose the camera lens to get me to back off...




And just for something random

Picture it in a whirling blizzard at night, snow piling up on the stairs and any ledges of the building...

Erich proposed to me right here, at the bottom of the steps between the two black lampposts in this photo. (The picture is of the old John Hancock building in Boston... with the weather tower, for those who don't recognize it)



And that's it for me today. :)


~ Mel.