Breakout!

DSC_2542-001This cat actually pushed out the window screen from the attic room. Once out, as with most felines, he realized he only had a breakout plan and had not thought through what to do after the breakout. He paced around the roof, meowing in distress at his predicament for a few minutes. A squirrel tempted the cat to jump into a tree on the other side of the roof peak to add to the drama. The owner poked her head out the escape window and was trying to call the cat back, with little luck for some time. Finally, the cat did come close enough to the window for the women to grab by the scruff and haul him inside the house.

Random Order

One of the half-dozen coffee shops on Alberta Street in NE Portland, Random Order is painted nicely and is a fun place to spend some time. I have taken a few photos of this coffee shop in the past few years and I still don’t think I have the best possible image. This one was shot with the 55mm F3.5 manual lens I recently bought. I’ll keep trying. The atmosphere in this place has changed over the last couple of years. Frankly, I liked it when it was less patronized and the staff played some really obscure music on the stereo. All of those staff members left, one by one, and now it is just a different place.

PS: that’s me reflected in the glass window to the right of the door just under the letter “R”.

Cat Buddy

Another of my ‘favorite homes’ in the Sabin area of NE Portland.  I would change the color, if mine, though. There are two cats that live at this location. When I walk by in the evening one of them, the long-haired one, invariably leaps from the porch railing and runs to greet me.

Izzy

IzzyIzzy, one of our two cats, relaxing this summer in our backyard. Izzy weighs 16 lbs. and behaves more like a dog than a cat. Both of our cats are ‘barn cats‘. They barely tolerate being in the house, even in the Winter and love chasing and hunting.