Day 277

I got out with my camera today and discovered too late that I did not have my CF card. ARGH!! So you get a photo from yesterday. It’s very dark because I took it while I was doing the sunflares, but I loved the light on Cheerio.

Day 268

By the time I got around to photos I was the only growed-up around, with one kid in bed and one watching a movie. So I couldn’t go far in my photo search. I stepped out my front door for both of these photos. The first one is just another shot of Queen Cheerio. Apparently this is her bench. I put Crunch on there to get a shot of the two of them and she sent him away in no uncertain terms.

This is the view of the mountains from my front door. That is the Kootenai Creek fire.

Day 229

We had an interesting little drama going on at dinner time. Cheerio, aka Danger Kitty, had already gotten a mouse, and was now eyeing the local robins (nesting in our maple tree). The robins were having something to say about this. Both robins were chirping angrily and hopping along the fence as Cheerio moved around the yard. I didn’t have a wide enough lens to get more than one player in this drama into the frame.

“Danger Kitty” surveying her kingdom.

Unhappy robin #1 telling Cheerio to shove off.

Unhappy robin #2 telling me to get out of his/her face. (They were both chattering constantly, but I still didn’t catch either of them actually “speaking.”)

For the photographers reading this, I have to tell you that the soft gray background is the road in front of our street. These were shot with my 70-300 at 300mm.

Day 161

This was nearly a camera-less day. It was so busy with church activities and the Sunday auction that I barely had time to pick the camera up! I did finally take a few snaps of Cheerio, but the light in the room put a real color cast on her, so I converted this one. I was shooting wide open for depth of field - I purposely have a narrow portion of Cheerio's face in focus.