A few weeks ago I had a lovely dinner at my mother’s, and captured a few photos.
The adorable Simon:
Milo the cat wasn’t too pleased with my camera:
I captured some photos of the flowers in her garden, and also walking to/from the dinner get-together:
Passing my the LCBO at Summerhill on the way home:
(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon 50 f1.4 lens)
My sister won a contest, sponsored by Maple Leaf, so we, and two friends, were treated to a lovely ‘spa day’. A chef arrived to cook us a delicious lunch, before we each had individual massages, manicures and pedicures. What a lovely indulgence it was!
The salad the chef prepared:
Perfect looking strawberries for the salad:
Prepping the lettuce:
Slicing the strawberries:
Corn cobs:
Great technique for removing those pesky corn silks:
Corn cobs started in the pot the chef brought with him, chicken (the ‘Maple Leaf’ part), started in his frying pan on the gas stove:
Corn was then moved to a frying pan, fried in bacon fat if I recall correctly…if you didn’t like bacon, not sure you’d enjoy this lunch! lol. 😉
Dicing thick slices of bacon:
Frying:
Crispy bacon was added to pre-prepared potatoes, part of a potato side dish:
Then it was warmed in the pan…with more bacon fat…yum! It’s certainly not a way I usually eat!
Alice watched the proceedings from the kitchen window:
The finished lunch plate. A wonderful start to our spa day experience.
(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens)
I posted a Zoe the cat update recently, so here’s an update on Alice and Finnegan.
Alice loves to sit at the kitchen window and look out at the world, and I love photographing her through the screen, think it adds an interesting element to the photo:
Both cats love to snooze on the coffee bag, filled with green beans, in what will one day be a pantry area. I guess it’s like sleeping on a bean bag chair. Love Alice’s blue eyes in this shot:
Finnegan hanging out in the kitchen:
Finnegan on a dining room chair, likely wondering why I’m taking his picture yet again, lol:
Alice wasn’t a fan of the hairball (fur ball?) medication, so we smeared some on her nose, forcing her to consume it (it’s for her own good!), now she likes it, and will lick it off an offered finger:
Backlit Finnegan and Alice:
Alice playing with her fave toy:
Two more shots of Alice through the screen window:
Finnegan:
A ‘few’ more of Alice, 😉 :
(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens, Canon 50 f1.4 lens & Canon 85 f1.2L lens)
As I mentioned in an earlier blog posting, Zoe went to a new home recently, and we visited the other day. She is a happy cat being the one and only! Here are some photos of Zoe in her new home.
Snoozing on her fave dining room chair:
Actually got a shot of her looking at me!
A few more of her hanging out on ‘her’ chair. Also love her little black top hat! Too cute!
She now lives in an apartment on the 19th floor, so I captured a few shots from the balcony:
(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon 50 f1.4 lens)
Yes, we are now a two cat household as Zoe has moved on to a better place…and is a much happier cat because of it.
She was really stressed living with the two other cats, especially Alice who really seemed to despise her for some reason. So we found her a new home where she is a one and only, and she has settled in beautifully. We hope to be paying a visit to her soon, and I’ll definitely try and capture some photos of her in her new abode.
Here’s a last macro close-up I took of her, going to miss those green eyes of hers:
Love this shot of Finnegan, he looks a little wind blown hanging out under the dining room table. He didn’t seem to miss Zoe at all, but he’s a laid back kinda guy:
Alice, on the other hand, was looking around for Zoe at the first meal time after she was gone. She would also come out into the main part of the apartment in the morning looking around for her.
I actually got Zoe to look at me for a nice shot of her, yea! 🙂
We REALLY spoiled her in her last few days with us, letting her lick out food bowls. She was in heaven! She loves her snacks/treats/meal time:
Alice loves looking out the windows. She seems much more relaxed now that Zoe is gone. I guess it was stressful for her as well:
We could never leave toys out for the cats to play with when Zoe was here, because otherwise we’d be awoken in the middle of the night with Zoe’s insane meowing. She liked to walk around with the toy in her mouth meowing/howling to the world. You can see Alice watching below for me to throw one of her fave toys, which is a white furry ball that makes noise when it moves. Last photo is her curled up underneath a chair ottoman:
(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens, Canon 50 f1.4 lens & Canon 85 f1.2L lens)
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