Mancat Willie Monday - placid and self contain'd

This was taken in my last year in Colorado. I lived there over TEN years. That is 2/3 of my life (so far.) From California to North Carolina via New Mexico and Colorado is a long road for a mancat cat to travel. Good thing for good company!

I decided today that I like North Carolina just fine. Less snow and less stairs in our new house! And the yards are awesome with many places to walk, climb, hide, and nap on picnic tables and benches and porches. It's getting cool suddenly and the leaves are starting to fall. Every morning the back yard is a different color. Fall and winter have always been Mosaic Lady's favorite times of year, but suddenly she is mourning the passing of spring and summer. It happened so fast, and so much of it was a blur of grief after Walter died in May. I think she is dreading the cold and dark and wet a tiny bit this year. Fortunately, unlike Colorado, the winter here will not be six, never-ending months of cold and dark and snow.

Mosaic Lady has many things to focus on through the end of the year, including and especially her mosaics! She will start posting new pieces to her blog a lot more frequently, so please visit her there. We will still post here when we can because we love to show off, but if you don't see us around as much it is because we are shifting our energies into other areas now and turning inward, with the shifting and turning of the season.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth.

~Walt Whitman