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Taken in Needham in the summer of ‘08
Sweetie Reetie. The object of Lootie’s affection. When Wooly Mammoths fall in love they fall hard. / Sweetie Reetie is shown here in Dartmouth, up to his usual tricks & causing havoc. / He’s a juggler, works inside a rolling glass bubble for food and beer. Maybe not good husband material, but they’re nuts about each other. Ah love. From “Lootie the Wooly Mammoth”, / Children’s Poem / Copyright BDSparhawk 2007
My liccle sister trying to keep warm, taken in Co.Galway, Ireland
Taken in Killeshandra, Co.Cavan This shot was taken through the gate, which was locked… but on going round the back of the building beside the graveyard, it was not hard at all to get into!! These are the ruins of the church and graveyard
/ / Winter Woolies also available as a shoe design at zazzle / / / Winter Woolies / A mixed media production on brown paper / using white acrylic gesso, pastels, charcoal, / NOW available printed on a tshirts too!! /
What I saw around the point / proceeds of sales of this art will be donated to the phoenix appeal / nikon d300 20mm f2.8 3frame bracket .7stop processed using photomatrix pro shot @f22 sorry cannot remember the shutter speed
Wooly is shown in red because he’s the heart of the house. – ftloccontest1- With four other indoor cats, it’s Wooly that everybody comes to visit. Not us, just Wooly! For example, see the following case studies: We have a wonderful caregiver who at one time had another client. All we knew about the client was that she drove our cheerful, happy caregiver to tears every day she went there. / Worried, we told her it was okay to stop in and hug Wooly for awhile on her way home, and every day after that, when she had that client, she’d come in white and shaking, pick Wooly up and cuddle him quietly for about ten minutes, then kiss “The Wool’s” on his head, and go on home, ready to face whatever the evening and her two children brought. / We have an older widower in our church who drops by often. And though he sits and talks with us about anything and everything, -mostly about his late wife, he always plops Wooly onto his lap and pets Wooly’s soft fur while he goes back over memories he need to talk about. Wooly just purrs and we just listen. After awhile, he stands up and says, “Whelp! I’d better go, my own cats will wonder where I am!” And away he goes, ready to carry on for a week or a few days till he can get back to Wooly. / Our caregiver’s son hit the Terrible fif-Teens, and, standing amongst their 4 cats one day, declared, “I hate cats! They shoud all be just taken out and drowned!” He doesn’t have a dad of any kind, so we turned him loose with my husband Kelly, and Wooly took over the cat issue. Within a week, Wooly had him wrapped around his dewclaw, at first saying, “I guess, if you gotta have a cat, Wooly’s a good enough one.” Now he says, “Cats are oh-kay! I’m a cat-man, just like Kelly. If a Marine like Kelly can be a cat-man, I guess I can, too!” / Our caregiver brought Wooly a girldfriend about a year ago. The other cats more or less accepted her, but spent weeks slapping her on the top of the head to let her know where she stood in the pecking-order. Not Wooly: With wide-open paws he made her feel welcome, loved her immediately, although his vampire side comes out and he bites her neck a lot. However, since its him squeaking when he does it, he must be pretty gentle. / Wooly does two things that keep us hopping, literally: / + He throws things off the various flat spots in the house, so I can’t put up / knick-knacks as a wrecking-crew of one, / + Nobody can go barefoot around here with Wooly on the prowl. / because he gnaws on people’s great toes. Yes, he has a toe fetish! / So that’s our Wooly- the local psychiatrist, people-lover, toe chomper -and- neck gnawer. / Please accept Wooy’s Resume For the Love of Cats as Featured Kitty. / Sincerely, Wooly’s mom.
DIGNITY / _ A Sociology Lesson_ Don’t stare at us / and talk behind our backs. / We’re just folks / who love each other like you do. Don’t say we’re cute / and think we should hold hands: / We don’t do things / just the same way you folks do. Don’t take our photo / and show us to all your friends. / We have our own kind / of dignity and and our own ways. We’re not exotic captives / to point at and jabber in front of: / We speak your language / and it’s you that’s strange to us. =Wooly (the small gray cat)= We wrote this little note to those who travel. / Having lived in tourist spots most of our lives, / we know how critters in the zoo and people of / other cultures feel when gawked at, snapped at / without permission, and how being spoken loudly / and slowly at in another language feels. Cats know.
WOOLY, MY WOOLY Wooly, my baby; Wooly my heart, / you fill up my mind, and fill in my Art. To see is love, to hear is to purr, / And it’s good for me to stroke your blue fur. And now I see you’ve caused enough trouble / to sleep where you dropped right here on Red Bubble! / -=Dayonda / Taken with CASIO XLIM 12.1mp “Pocket” camera. (If you get one, upgrade the battery right away, and use the old one for a spare.) Wooly is a rescue baby- and he’s the live-wire in the house: He pats the other cats on their bums as they walk past, bites his girlfriend Molly’s neck, shows off for our friends… I picked him up thinking he was a little grey-flocked fuzzy “kitty bank”. He woke up instantly and began crying with his first waking breath. / He was hungry and thirsty. A later converstation with the woman who had offered him and and his brother at the yardsale where I found him was, / ”>shrug< They’re prob’ly dead now. They ain’t bothered me for awhile.” / How I wish I’d taken Wooly’s brother as well! Wooly’s about 3 years old at this “photo session”. and he had cause enough trouble to fall asleep where he dropped! On the best chair, of course! / __ / Wouldn’t you love a “REST & GET WELL” card with little Wooly to illustrate how to rest properly?
This photo of Woolly monkeys (father and son/daughter?) was taken in Apenheul (apes’ hill) in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. Shot with my Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera.
Wooly’s eyes pop when something he doesn’t notice before suddenly moves around him. After the 3 days he accidentally spent outdoors, he’s been a very easily-spooked little guy. / We don’t pick him up and reward the reaction, instead we touch the challenging object. Then he waltzes up and slaps it. ” Once slapped, always conquored,” is how Wooly sees it. He’s very brave because he faces what scares him. Rescued: Probably once a day; from stuff he get into, LOL. Seriously, he’s a rescue from a yard sale, then he got lost outdoors till we rented a live trap from the SPCA and caught him in it. Then we had to rescue him from the trap- he was freaked out, and he’d been bumping his face into the bars on the top and sides so much his little fuzzy face was swollen. He galloped through the house 3 times before he realized he was home, indoors, with his humans and his cat partners. So the Wool’s had it tough for an emotional little guy.
The closing of Woolworth’s means The End of an Era. / ‘WOOLIES’ / was an Institution where everyone has shopped, and where I personally gave the last sixteen years of my working life to. And loved every minute. It gave me a chance to meet so many people as with Dawlish being a small town probably the whole population. LOL. / It made me so very sad to see the shop, when I took this photograph yesterday, with the receivers inside. Just wanted to share my nostalgia with you. / Thank you for looking. Sob, Sob.
borrowby on the north york moors
Great little caterpillar on a blade of grass with a little Redfield frac to make it even more interesting. Found at Pithers Point Park in Fort Frances, ON – Canada.
I happened upon this tombstone when walking through St Mary’s Catholic Cemetary in Kensal Green, London. Someone had placed the woolen hat on the sculpture and I thought it made her look rather beautiful in a funky kind of way… I colour-popped it to add some more dynamic… Buy this image for anyone who likes incongruity and has a funky outlook on life! If you like this image, have a look at these ones here: Canon 10D / 1/250th sec @ f11 / 35-135mm / ISO100
Sheep in the snow Distantly related to Sean Had a bet with Alison – framed a print of this and took it to sell at craft market. It won’t sell I said – who the hell would want to buy a picture of a sheep in Wales – there’s millions of them? Yes it will, said she. Guess what?
Shot this around a month ago – I bet this little lamb has grown. The mother sheep are very protective so getting the little woolball on her own was lucky! It’s a shame the lambs lose their attractive coat patterns as they grow up. Background partly removed. Canon EOS 5D MkII with Canon EF 70-200mm L IS f/4 handheld
We, Wooly’s proud parents & rescuers know our Wooly is precocious, but last week he decided to run my husband Kelly’s power wheelchair. Today, Kelly photographed him trying- but Kelly turned the chair off to keep from being smacked into. Wooly hasn’t got the turns or the backing-up down pat just yet. And when he learns to run the wheel chair, I’m taking him to get his Learners’ Permit so I can teach him to drive the car. Poor Wooly just kept on trying and trying because last time he did it, the chair moved all over the place! Dad is a real kill-joy! / I suppose if he let Wooly use it, he’d have to send me to all parts of the house to bring it back when he needed it. . . / So, you might wonder if you can teach old cats new tricks, but certainly young-adult cats can teach themselves any trick they care to learn. / GROUPS: / Point-n-Shoot, COMPACT Gps: CASIO’s EXILIM 12.1 megapixl / Wooly was rescued from the neighbor’s yard sale- “Yeah, the dam’ cat’s free.” His litter mates didn’t survive, as in “Nah, ain’t seen ‘em for months.” / Wooly’s a watermelon tabby. Takes sunlight to see it. / UNTOUCHABLES: I didn’t touch it!
I get to visit these guys pretty often too…There is a beautiful Alpaca farm on a small Island off of this Island (Vancouver Island)...The small Island is called “Gabriola Island” So there is a lovely couple, who are retired Police Officers, who run this farm…The Alpacas are strictly used for their wooly coats…They are sheared annually, and the fur is used for sweaters, slippers, hats, etc….The Alpacas are not harmed in any way shape or form…well, except for maybe a bad hair day or two…they are basically pets to the owners…and it is always so much fun to visit…Their temperament is so heart warming…just like really big dogs…I love where I live…:-)
Wooly’s eyes are green, and his coat is blue-grey. But he’s so shiny, that irridescence shows a multiplicty of colors in close-up. This is lit naturally; he’s between the east and the west window. / Camera: CASIO Exilim 12.1 mp / Rescued Wooly: He was in a ‘yard sale’ next door, very hungry, and there was no price on him because he had no value to his current owners. A tiny kitten then, I should have taken his brother, too, because a month later when I saw them again and asked about the other one, they shrugged, “Guess it’s dead,” was what they had to say about him.
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