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Cat with flowers
Its dish was empty; no one called.
The white cat padded round the drained pools and down the pebbled path through the formal gardens. It sat quite still for a moment and then twined through a border of viburnum. Again, it stopped beneath bushy roses, whose white petals sifted down as the white cat darted toward a flash of gray on the pebble walk. It was tracking a field mouse. The field mouse blended into the gray and brown of the pebble and stone just as the white cat blended into a border of pearl-drops, as if neither were substantial, shadow chasing shadow.
—Martha Grimes from The Five Bells and Bladebone (Little, Brown, 1987)
Harry Rutherford mentioned last week how difficult it is to photograph his black cat Posy. The same is true of “our Bert” as Dickens might style him, though I sort of enjoy the way he absorbs light. In this shot, he is merely sleeping on the footstool beside the flowers all boxed up to carry to my mother’s open house. I had stashed the flowers between footstool and wall to protect them from cat depredation but Bertie found them. And the cat was so black, and the flowers, arranged by Smits Greenhouse, so full of color that I snapped the photo.
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1. charlie w replies at 7th September 2007, 1:51 pm :
If that cat could talk what a tale he’d tell
bout Della and the dealer and the dog as well,
but the cat was cool and never said a mumblin word.
Anybody remember the cat’s name in this Hoyt Axton song? charlie w
2. sherry replies at 8th September 2007, 8:46 am :
Kalamazoo, Charlie W. But I cheated and looked it up. Hoyt Axton wrote some great songs but “Della and the Dealer” came out the year I gave birth to twins so I didn’t take much notice of it. Axton songs I did notice were “Joy to the World” and “Never Been to Spain” and the only Steppenwolf cover I ever paid much attention to, “The Pusher,” and even that one because it was part of the soundtrack to Easy Rider.
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