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Pinky and Perky

By Tom Merriman on

Presenting Pinky and Perky (not their real names*)

Always minding their own business and never minding each other, perching apart just enough from each other yet close enough to appear together at the same time, providing a united front, their body language provides a few clues about their relationship.

Pinky holds a higher authority, and Perky is subservient.

Pinky is alert and Perky aloof.

Pinky wants freedom and Perky is happy as is.

Pinky is wide awake and Perky is sound asleep.

Pinky can’t stand Perky’s snoring.

Perky can’t stand Pinky’s whining.

Pinky blames Perky for getting them both locked outside of their cage.

Pinky wouldn’t listen when Perky said they were still locked inside the run.

Pinky couldn’t settle on top of the cage, Perky was most comfortable.

Pinky had internal ruffled feathers, Perky just went with the flow.

pink squares

I’m just going with the flow as well. Posting the occasional #InThePink post for Becky’s September Squares challenge (the link above will take you to many more pink-themed pics), and having fun doing so!

*I was contemplating pixelating Pinky and Perky’s faces for this post, but that would have hidden their perfect expressions. And besides, their noms de plume protect their identities perfectly.

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Action!

By Tom Merriman on

Debbie’s theme for One Word Sunday this week is ‘Action’.

My interpretation is on the action of heading towards the action. These families of geese recently saw something ‘over there’ and decided to investigate en masse.

Something has definitely caught their attention.

The question, as always, is what?

Visit Debbie’s site to see more interpretations of this and last week’s theme.

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Mandarin

By Tom Merriman on

Six watercolours in six days. Woohoo!

And this watercolour contains water and colour! Yes, it’s a watercolour water colour! Well, a colourful Mandarin Duck merrily swimming on a lake somewhere. Not my Lake… I’ve yet to see a mandarin there in real life, but you never know… until then, a watercolour (another quick one!) will have to suffice.

For #WorldWatercolorMonth

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Magpie Magic

By Tom Merriman on

Nature is amazing, isn’t she?

In the corner of the Garden is a little grave where Simba lies sleeping, since she took her soul up to the Great Cattery Heaven.

When she first departed, we marked where she lay with a simple but artificial red rose. We always say ‘hello’ to her, when we see her little place, but over time the rose became weathered and battered. It was replaced by another rose, but in time the same happened to that, and they vanished from the plot.

Recently, the corner of the Garden has just been bare, lawn-covered and bathed only in glorious sunshine.

Earlier today, two magpies were in the Garden, a mother and her baby. The baby was  lying on the grass, watching her mother busying herself doing what magpie mothers do. She hopped in the sunshine, and walked in the shade. Back and to to the dry tub where we normally leave water for the birds and other creatures to drink.

I went out to fill the tub, and the magpies flew just a little further away to a safe distance. I watched them for a while, as they watched me, and then I returned back inside.

A short time later, I looked out of the window, and saw the baby magpie lying on the lawn in the corner, seemingly pecking on something on the ground above where Simba lay. What the baby was pecking at was red.

I waited for the birds to fly away again before I went out to investigate what was going on.

Can you imagine my surprise when I saw a red rose on the place where Simba is sleeping? It was one of the red artificial ones, which have been misled for quite a while. But for it to be in the very spot where it lay originally, apparently placed there by a baby magpie – well, that makes you think.

I don’t know if you remember Simba, there are a few photos of her dotted about throughout the blog… she was a gorgeous black and white cat with the friendliest of personalities. Black and white. The colour of magpies.

Like I say… Nature is amazing isn’t she? Full of Fabulous surprises.

(The picture that accompanies this post is a quick and wobbly digital doodah of a magpie. Or that’s what it’s meant to be anyway! I can’t recreate the beauty of the real thing.)

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Celebrity

By Tom Merriman on

‘Celebrity’ is the word of the day this week, for Debbie’s One Word Sunday.

However, I don’t have any photographs of my own of any celebrity or any celebrity related whatnots, so I’m in a bit of a pickle. I do have hundreds of photos of a somewhat local celebrity on this site (in my eyes he is anyway!), so that is what I am going to use. Well, one of the photos; it would be a tad much to post all of the hundreds of them here.

My choice of celebrity?

Tufty, of course!

Visit Debbie’s site for more takes on the theme.

 

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