Happy Father's Day...

Happy Father's Day, Dad!! I miss you!!

Dad and me: September, 1983

Mood: a little sad
Background noise: birds chirping and singing

Return to sender...

I am still getting mail from the previous tenants (I moved to my new digs in March). Most of the mail consists of  credit card bills, cell phone bills, and medical bills. I am bit annoyed and a little mystified by this. I wonder if the people who lived here before me moved to elude the bill collectors. I have been writing "RETURN TO SENDER" on the envelopes and mailing them back, but their bills keep on coming. Friends and family suggested contacting my property manager to see if they have a forwarding address and contacting the post office to stop their mail from being sent.

A fitting song to this post.

Secret Garden

Last Monday I had a stressful day and a stressful bus ride in which I do not want to get into the details. When I got off the bus, I had to de-stress and calm down. I came upon a flower garden that was well tucked away behind a shopping center. It reminded of a tiny flower garden behind the admissions building in college years ago, that I would go to in order to get away from it all. The sight of flowers has a calming effect on me and I could not resist to take pictures.

Violet lilies covered in raindrops.

Little pink flowers.

Cone-flowers and other wildflowers.

Pearl in an oyster.

Big Ass Cat

I took this picture of Spot the other day. One can notice he is a very large and big boned cat (but not fat) and he loves to ham it up for the camera.  With this picture, I just couldn't help but be reminded of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' painting, La Grande Odalisque. You can make the comparison:

Spot showing off his big backside

La grande odalisque

I'm back...

I finally got a new cell phone a couple of weeks ago and I have been taking pictures whenever I see something interesting.

Earlier this week, I found this graffiti cat while walking through a boulevard underpass. A very whimsical looking cat that kind of put a smile on my face.

What's up?

No Cell Phone Photos for Now

Due to dropping my cell numerous times in the past year, my cell phone display has died. I can still make and receive calls, but I cannot text or take pictures which sucks. I have to wait a few months before I am eligible for an upgrade, and because of that-I will be taking photos with a Kodak Fun Saver until then. Here is a colorful sunset photo that I took from my apartment window, using the Fun Saver.

Waiting for your next move

Every now and then I play games on Facebook. One of the games I play is "Words with Friends." It is one of my favorite games. Even though online games can be addicting, I find them to be fun and relaxing-especially after a rough, hectic day. Often my cat Spot loves to sit on my lap while I am on the computer. He happened to be on my lap one day while I was playing "Words with Friends."  Every now and then, he tries to get on the keyboard and hits the space key with his paw-pretending to type. He did this while I was playing-it looks like he's the one playing.

I am waiting for your next move and please hurry up. I need to make a trip to the litter box.