The Cat and The Cat

This is one of the kitties sitting on the vanity in the bathroom.  I am not sure why she is looking at me this way - perhaps it was because I called to her to get her attention - I forget.  Her look is pretty intense, though.  What makes this photograph interesting is the sign on the wall behind her - it says "The Cat" in French.  It is the name of a soap company, I believe.  So there you have it - the cat and the cat.

Leftovers, Sort of...

Kathy made a blueberry pie as a treat.  Whenever she makes a pie, there are always leftover pieces of pie crust, and usually, some of the pie filling.  So she puts the scraps together and rolls them out in a kind of random shape.  Then she puts a dollop of pie filling it the center and folds the piecrust edges toward the center and pinches them together, and...  we have a free-form blueberry tart.  They are absolutely delicious, even though they look kind of weird.  

Chives & Marigolds

There is something about the chives growing in the garden box by the driveway that I really love.    They grow straight up and I look forward to seeing them each year at the end of summer.  The blossoms are white now, but  as fall comes their color will fade, they will be all tan, and will be interesting as well.   Without the Marigolds in the background, however, this photograph wouldn't be as interesting.

Scarecrow Balloons

I love this photograph!  I was driving down this back road in Old Brookville past a farm that sells vegetables to the public, and saw these eyes looking at me!  I couldn't believe how cool these things are and how amazing they look!  I first saw just one and it stopped me in my tracks.  When I got out to photograph I tried a couple of different angles, and when I all of them in a row, I thought it was the best picture.  These things make me feel happy, for some reason.  Big eyes, and no mouth, and yet, they still make me smile.

Captain Dusty's Books

There's a bookcase at Captain Dusty's, and the books look old.  I mean, not "antique" just "old."  I took some of them off the shelves, and the publication dates were all in the mid-1950's.  It was kind of fun to look through them and see what was there, and to see the design of all the dust jackets.  The decor in the house is from the same period, and it is part of the charm of the place - it is like stepping back in a time machine.

Amy Photographs The Boat

We came out of one of the cutsie shops in Montauk, and I spied this fishing boat.  Something about the symmetry of it caught my eye.  Amy was in front of me, and she went directly toward the boat, and raised her camera and started composing a picture.  I immediately thought that the picture was much more interesting with Amy in the scene, rather than just the boat.  I grabbed three frames before she turned away.  Whew!

Horse

When we were in Montauk, we went by a park that is on land next to a horse ranch which has been in Montauk forever.  A few years ago we all took a group ride rode on horses through and around this wonderful landscape, and then along the shoreline.  On this day, most of the horses were down in a corral, but there were two up on the top of the hill by themselves.  They didn't move away, so I had a chance to photograph them.  I haven't been this close to horses in years.  So it was fun just to look at them carefully.  This one kept lifting one leg while eating.  I have no idea why, but it made the photograph more interesting. I decided to crop the picture very close, so that it was obvious that this was about just the horse, not the landscape.