My Mind's Eye

Monday, January 4, 2021

3'fer Awww Monday, Sparks, Wacky Holidays in January

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Back in our early blogging days Angel Madi and I pawticipated in

Saturday Photo Hunt: We were given a word to use with a photo.

Today I join Ranger for Wacky January Holidays

January 4th is National Spaghetti Day

HAPPY SATURDAY PHOTO HUNT

TO JOIN IN ON THE FUN CLICK HERE

TODAY'S WORD IS

S P I C Y
Everyone is invited to have a taste of Mom's
spicy spaghetti sauce.

It smells very delicious.
Hugs
Madi

SPARKS about Spaghetti

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Sunday Selfie and Festival of Sleeping with Ranger

Today I join Ranger for Wacky January Holidays

I'm happy to say lots of Ranger's Wacky January holidays will include flashbacks of Madi

Today, January 3 is Festival of Sleeping

Angel Madi was a typical cat..once she GOT us up the bed was all hers

Paws down the very BEST place to sleep is close to Mom.

The End

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Art, Symmetry and a Joke

Original of Owl from Friday. It was in Black and White

I jazzed it up with stain glass from lunapic

The Red arrow is still on the tree trunk pointing to the Owl

Symmetry

Sign: "Wet Concrete, do not sit on til Monday".

Inquiring minds want to know which Monday!!

We saw this on a Monday...

I thought this was a cute joke and I hope you get a giggle out of it too.

I read it in 'The Return' by Nicholas Sparks

A lady pulls her car into the mechanic's shop, because it is running poorly.

A little while later, the mechanic comes out, she asks him, "What's the story with my car?" The mechanic replies, "Oh just crap in the carburetor." "Oh" she says," how often do I need to do that?"

Friday, January 1, 2021

Nature and Feline Friday: Happy New Year Message From Madi

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Tuesday December 29, we had a rare day time sighting of a Owl just a few hundred steps from trail head to the left we noticed folks looking up.
Nosy me asked what they saw. He was wearing his best camo. Sitting in the crook of a pine tree limb leaning against the pine bark that was the exact color of his feathers. Not a feather was moving his mostly goldish eyes were staring at a crowd
of humans Hoo were staring at him. I discovered Owls with gold eyes hunt during the daylight. I think this is either a *screech owl or **barred owl .
What we saw was colored more like a screech owl but I don't think it had the little peaks on its head so I'm not sure.
One of the humans said he was that was his favorite limb he is there most mornings.

*The Eastern Screech-Owl is a short, stocky bird, with a large head and almost no neck. Its wings are rounded; its tail is short and square. Pointed ear tufts are often raised, lending its head a distinctive silhouette.
Here is a photo I found of a screech owl in a Google Search
As you can see from this image their feathers are great camo for the woods.

And a Barred Owl
**Barred Owls live in large, mature forests made up of both deciduous trees and evergreens, often near water. They nest in tree cavities. In the Northwest, Barred Owls have moved into old-growth coniferous forest, where they compete with the threatened Spotted Owl.

Thank you Kit and Vicky for your help in my effort to determine
just Hoo this little guy might be.

Another photo I took zooming in on it a bit.
Black and White same photo
On Caturday Art you'll see this one in Stain Glass via Lunapic

My roving photo journalist sent me this photo of a red tail hawk

look at that blue sky!!
From Janice:
We have had Red-Tail Hawks in our yard or area for years (few years ago they nested in a pine tree in neighbors yard - Al loved watching them feed their babies (using his binoculars of course) and watching the babies learn to fly. Well, for last few weeks we have seen 2 hawks in our yard most every day. Christmas Day one was in our tree close to the porch and another was sitting in our driveway
Feline Flashback from Madison D. Cat.