Calico Grrls: Flash & Sophie

Flash watches out the window.  Sophie looks up.

Flash, the tortoise shell, with Sophie, the tabby-tortie, muted & unmuted, color-pointed kitty

Flash and Sophie Cozy on the Bed

Sophie Tries Out the Daybed

Sophie Tries to Claim Daybed

Sophie Settles In

Home Improvement: Progress with Soft Furnishings

Real Life in the A & C Room

The Bedspread Complete

Ado Upon Breakfast Table

Ado Sits Upon the Breakfast Table

Ado Has Egyptian Bone Structure

Ado Marks the Table as His

Flash Lounging

Flash is a beautiful 15 year old calico born and raised in Mississippi.

Flash

flash in the wintergärten

flash going for the fresh cat oats grass

Loving Orlan from BabyCat to Grand Cat

Orlan lived 15 years.  He found me when he was about 2 weeks old; he was nothing but a fluff ball with ears.

Approximately 6 weeks old.

Orlan survived a fatty tissue sarcoma, but died with metastatic tumors.  I wish we had more years together.

Orlan 1999 - 2014

summer tomatoes ripen indoors

Tomatoes from Late Summer

Tomatoes Ripen in Basket Inside

Tomatoes Picked Just Before Frost

Sophie and the Fallen Leaves

Sophie

Sophie in the Backyard

Sophie, Trees, and Leaves

Rayado in the Herbs

Rayado Sleeps in the Herbs

Orlan's 15th Birthday

Orlan Squinting with the Afternoon Sun

Herb Garden

Dwarf French Marigolds

Daytrip: Longue Vue House and Gardens & Café b

Café b:
A great place to have New Orleans cuisine for lunch.

Shrimp & Artichokes with Garlic Bread:  A lovely bay leaf flavor

Fish of the Day with Crab Meat

Longue Vue House and Gardens
Impressions

Forecourt Fountain

Spanish Court with Green Marble Bench

Walled Garden with Edible Plants

Citrus in the Walled Garden

Walled Garden Water Feature Surrounded by Edible Flowers

Pigeonnier

Detail of Pigeonnier Bench Carving

New Orleans Oak

Back of the House

Inside the house you will see the following:

curved millwork

painted millwork

libraries

art gallery that replaced kitchen

custom glass knobs with a rainbow of colors

mirrored paneled doors

a sunlight stairwell from above

sleeping porch enclosed with pivoting hidden beds for 3 children

stenciled walls

antique wallpaper installed

raised ceiling and floor

dumbwaiter in kitchenette on second floor

a wine cellar basement in New Orleans

herringbone brick floors

beautiful chandeliers

fascinating papier-mâché mother-of-pearl inlay chair

watercolors of flowers framed straight to the wall together in the flower cutting and arranging room with 4 sinks of 4 different depths

Napoleonic bee drapes in a distant bathroom

scale built into the floor for the boys' bathroom with Formica walls and cork flooring

lower ceiling heights for the era for they could afford the new technology of air conditioning

Cayenne Peppers Drying

Cayenne Peppers from the Garden Drying

Cayenne Peppers from the Garden Drying

Holy Well, 1996

Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996

Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996

Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996

Holy Well, County Clare, Ireland, March 22, 1996

Mary-in-a-Greenhouse

all photos

©1996 D. Moss

Little Kittens

Michael's Foot & Baby Commodore, October 1996

Dothan & Commodore, October 1996

Commodore & Dothan, December 1996

Flash, 1999

Jesus loves the little kittens

All the kittens of the world

Red and yellow

Black and white

They are precious in his sight

Jesus loves the little kittens of the world

Meeroww!, December 1999

Sophie, 2001

Sophie, 2001

Commodore-Cat Sleeping Beneath Lawn-Mower, 2002

One of Stray/Woodland Cat Maggie's Kittens, 2002

Maggie's Minnie, 2002