illustration friday - juggling

Cat juggling. A fav-o-rite past time of our new puppa, not to be confused with the ever popular, cat-swinging.

illustration friday - wedding

Okay, well this is really the wedding night....in addition to the wedding night I'm also including the illustration I did for my wedding many moons ago.

illustration friday - momentum

Boy did I need some momentum to get this done this week. It's just a quick doodle of the mayhem that's going on around here with the new puppa.

illustration friday - alpha-pets

As our kitty sits on the beach reading the "ABC's of Dog Training," our first outing to the shore reveals that our new labrador retriever is afraid of the water. Kitten and dog are getting along well, détente is better than devouring.

illustration friday - visitors

My kitty is very worried because our recent visitors left their dog behind. Little does she realize he's here to stay, we just adopted him from a lab rescue group, Labradors and Friends, woof.

illustration friday - captain

The nightly standoff at dinner time between my husband (a navy captain) and a kitten's bounty.

illustration friday - emergency

aaahhhhh...

hello?.....

Amendment IV.

illustration friday - missing

I'm missing the east coast — my friends, 90 degree "it's not the heat, it's the humidity," rats the size of small dogs, rowing on the potomac, wearing black tights, rushing around on high octane coffee and watching college football in the afternoon not at breakfast (beer makes my fruit-loops soggy.)

my world is beige

Everywhere I look are brown boxes. I need some colour in my life but I can't find my paints.

illustration friday - moon

They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon, they danced by the light of the moon. Here is my kitty à la owl and pussycat with un lapin sur la lune. (I'm a little cat-a-tonic after our move, could use a nice gin-n-tonic.)

second verse, same as the first

One of the many, many nicknames we have for our cat is Anne Boleyn. So named for the way she likes to sleep with her neck stretched way out over the arm of a chair. So here she is dressed as her nickname sake.

illustration friday - poe'm

One of my fav-o-rite poems is The Raven which is what we named one of our kitties, who came a rap-tap-tapping at our bedroom door one cold day in October fifteen years ago when we were living on Capitol Hill. The Rave unfortunately passed into the great literary cat society in the sky a year ago. Her fav-o-rite foods were pizza, cream cheese and cheese doodles (ummm crunchy cheese.) I get all misty whenever we have pizza (which we had last night) and can't even look at cream cheese. So here is my Raven poe'm from dear old Edgar.

procrastination

Yes, I should be packing but I thought I'd do a quick doodle of my dog-in-law, Nadia.

yawn...up all night

My crazy kitty was up all night running from window to window. I don't know what she sees out there, I can only imagine.

on the road again...

Well we have to move again. If I didn't know any better I would think we were in the witness protection program or more likely, running from the law. Such is life in the navy, at least we get to stay on the island.

illustration friday - discovery

Team Discovery. I've been watching the tour de france this week (love those boys in lycra) and couldn't resist this take on discovery.

le tour

Enjoying the boys in lycra dancing on their pedals.

illustration friday- geeky

My geeky pets playing together in the yard.

Happy 4th of July!

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it — Mark Twain