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:o =) Lady Rain's Celebration in Seasons continues and perseveres in colorful bursts and moments which stand still in time. I seem to be welcoming my Sundays with more zeal anticipating your week's gift to us.

You definitely provide great wonder and give one pause to ponder on so many levels. Your flow of speech and structure induces a unique rhythmic nuance complimented by your well captured images.

You demonstrate a reality beyond perception and provokes one's thoughts and emotions. Indeed there is much to enjoy yet give pensive thought.

Are the white and red blooms from a Magnolia Tree? The abandoned house looks in pretty good shape. I always wonder about "who" lived in abandoned houses, especially the ones in the middle of now where. it was someone's home. You definitely have given me inspiration to consider.

My most favorite image this week and one I got wide eyed about is the Iris Image! :) You and Van Gogh crushed it! In so much, I'm listening to Iris by the Goo Dolls now. I can look at this image for hours. Thank you Rain!

Yes, I also wish for you to remain desirous and intrigued. It is part of the fuel for life. I do, however, wish for you to be safe and be as meticulous in situational awareness as you are in your creative efforts. So, please, no being swallowed up by basements. If it is a stranger's basement......I hope it is one of good will and not a stranger danger. Just saying.

So, indeed Rain, Let's journey with you and see what happens next! :)

Rain DeGrey's avatar

The Isis was the very last shot I took and it almost didn’t make it in! I saw it out of the corner of my eye as I was walking away.

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Eagle Eye Rain! An expression in life’s fortune. Blessed be peripheral vision :) They were perhaps calling out to you. Just gorgeous. FYI, you may want to reconsider taking any home. They can be toxic to cats and can give them messy digestive problems if they eat them.

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I have 4 cats at home and am super cautious about bringing any plants home because the cats love to eat plants. I do have one fern in a high place, as the kids keep trying to chew on it and then they throw up.

Granted, cats will throw up no matter what, but I have chosen cats over plants and keep the house fairly free of temptation. (minus the one sad chewed on fern)

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Hey Rain! Never a dull moment with four cats :) Are they indoor cats? Cats are funny and enjoyable to have around.

I miss my last cat. She was cool. Really Brave but scared as hell from those soap bubble toys! I guess she really wasn’t my cat…….more like co habited with me.

My neighbor has a bunch of cats! She went so far as to create a Cat Courtyard so they be outside since they are inside cats. So, I guess the fern is kind of like a play toy for them LoL. Ah, the intrigues of hairballs. Right. Plants we can find outside. She didn’t mind the pothos I have inside.

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The cats are a funny story...I only had two, sisters from a feral litter rescue.

Then I pet the neighbor's cat, the cat followed me home, dumped the neighbor and moved onto my porch. So I had 3 cats.

Then someone started screaming at me through my open bedroom window. I looked outside and it was a tiny feral kitten sitting on my compost bin yelling at me.

So now I have 4 cats.

Only the neighbor's cat is an indoor/outdoor, because he was 10 years old when he broke up with the neighbor and wasn't going to go full indoors for me. The other 3 are indoor only. I only want indoor cats, its better for them and it is better for the environment. I have made an exception for the old man, who chose me. HARD. lol. I must give good pets.

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:) They knew a good thing when they saw you! How funny! It was the same thing for me with my cat.

She showed up on my patio one day. Soooooo, friendly. I started brushing her fur; she enjoyed it, kept coming back and there it was. She was in good shape and looked well so I’m pretty sure she was a neighborhood cat. She wasn’t truly feral until my situation changed. I’d return home around 9pm and she was waiting for me. Hungry Cat. After she ate she did her thing and stayed in.

So, in the morning, out she goes and night she sleeps in. But this all changed and I wouldn’t come home until midnight or so. She became feral and from this her ultimate end. She did however make friends with a skunk! But this is another story. The word was definitely out about you with the compost bin kitten LoL! :) Cats make good stories.

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Rain has been a bit quiet for a few hours now, she has obviously fallen through a rotten floor of a rotten house in the middle of rotten nowhere, with no mobile reception(no surprise). We need search teams around the east coast ASAP! someone call the sniffer dogs, the mountain rescue, the marines. Time is of the essence

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Awww! No, I am putting together some class write-ups for a bunch of classes that I'm teaching next month, doing a quick indoor shoot and then heading out to do a fine art modeling gig today. Unfortunately it is raining so I am not able to go outside and do any shooting. But I have a number of locations that I'm planning on getting to once the rain lets up.