Oh high alert late afternoon, Golden Girl Tiny reads the sights and sounds and smells of the landscape that is her territory to defend.
The pale midwinter light paints her fur and the surrounding vegetation a subtler version of Maxfield Parrish's dazzling "Daybreak" palette of midsummer.
Update: "Tiny is extremely round. 'Reminds me of birds who puff out their feathers to insulate themselves," writes our imail correspondent. "Sort of like this," we i'd back with a link to the above image found in a google image search for "puffed bird." Separated at birth?
Update II: All animals all the time at Modulator's Friday Ark #231.
Love those green eyes and the dappled light! Gorgeous. Such a funny juxtaposition w the bird picture! LOL Does she hunt birds? Our two do, despite our spritzing them with water, yelling at them, and keeping them well fed. We're happy when they get all the rodents, but the kids draw the line at baby rabbits, and always pry open the cats' jaws to release them. Dumb bunnies take a LONG time to hop away. Cat then prowls angrily around like Simpkin in the Tailor of Gloucester, looking for her prey.
Posted by: retriever | February 17, 2009 at 09:12 PM
She is so absolutely enchanting! She is, I suspect, almost entirely (if not entirely) Maine Coon - the M on her forehead is a definite clue in that direction. Sam the Wonder Cat has it too! The ruff around their necks is sometimes a challenge. I don't know about Tiny, but Sam's fluffy white ruff requires daily grooming and still it looks disheveled a lot of the time! Must be a boy thing, eh?
Anyway, the second pic of Tiny is my new office computer background. Makes me smile. Warms my heart. Lightens my mood.
Posted by: Gayle Miller | February 18, 2009 at 03:02 PM
I have no idea why I bother to take photographs. One image of Tiny, and I am completely outclassed, seven ways from Sunday.
Sissy, once again you have taken a beautiful subject and successfully Gilded the Lily.
Posted by: Elisson | February 19, 2009 at 01:21 PM
No wonder Tiny has a gentleman caller on her territory every so often-- she's definitely the belle of Chelsea.
Posted by: Connecticut Yankee | February 19, 2009 at 02:05 PM
Gorgeous photos of Tiny. She's lovely! I love the dappled light on her fur.
Posted by: Karen Jo | February 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM