[ A close view of long, narrow silver-green leaves, waving in the breeze, looking much like undersea fronds. The stems are paler and slightly more yellow. They greenery entirely fills the picture. ] First small beauties post from the new land! There’s SO much here that’s beautiful, I can’t wait to post more.
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness and a blue bow tie, sits atop a pile of pallets, silhouetted against the sky. He looks extremely skeptical. ] GUESS WHAT it is a CAT POST This happened MONTHS AGO but there’s been all this *gestures broadly at everything* but I’m back & functional again …
[Flat land, sparsely covered in brown tumbleweeds, leads up to rugged, snowy mountain peaks.] ‘Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered …’ … okay, no, but we _did_ manage to get the van stuck within a hundred feet of our borders, & by ‘we’ I mean ‘I’, & it took us four days to get it …
[Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a purple harness, sits in a blue cat stroller, looking out to the right of the camera.] Tom’s been wiggly with spring coming in, so Jasper & I decided to take him along to run errands. He was … not entirely sure about this, but it did get …
[The road stretches out through the center of this wide shot; at the distant horizon, a hint of snow-covered mountains blends into the low clouds. The road is tree-lined on the left side; snowy fields on the right lead up to a snow-roofed barn.] I haven’t been talking about it much, mostly because STRESS & …
[A small round cactus barely sticks out of tiny gravel. It’s no more than an inch across, sticks out of the ground less than half an inch, and is covered in tiny spines, all parallel to its surface.] Spring is, finally, coming in. I found a tiny cactus. Glad I didn’t find it with my …
[A view across a field of short brown grass. Houses line the horizon, and behind them rises Mount Blanca, topped with snow.] The boys had a vet visit … which, since we’re going to be moving there soon, was in Alamosa. But since we aren’t in Alamosa yet, it was a bit of a haul. …
[Loiosh is draped over Jasper’s shoulder. He’s still wearing his rainbow sweater. The ground is covered in snow, and so is the van, which is in the background.] Eventually we pried Loiosh away from the grass, although I literally had to haul his butt away. Then he didn’t really want to walk, so me & …
[Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a white sweater with a rainbow across the shoulders, is standing just next to the wall of a house, chewing on dry grass. His tongue is sticking out a bit, his ears are sticking out at a variety of angles, and he looks very intent.] Tried to take Loiosh for …
[Looking up through the trees — green ponderosa needles capped with tufts of snow, all in front of a deep blue sky veiled in sheer cirrus clouds. ] Friday there was surprise! Five inches of snow! It was LOVELY. Saturday I hadda go outside to take jewelry pics anyway, so I went for a lil …