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Forty signs of cat pee

Actually, there's only one sign. It's yellow, damp, and stinky. It leads to conversations like this one:

Me: Oz, there's a sponge on the kitchen floor over under where the towels are.

Oz: And?

Me: You need to know that it's been used for cat pee.

Oz: So I shouldn't use it to wash my face?

Me: Yeah. Or to wipe off a dish. Or to clean the counters. Or anything.

Well, enough about the cat pee. It's been less of a problem of late, though I expect that to change as spring does its thing. That thing is happening now, in fact. Spring has crept up on little lamb feet, warming up the days and nights until we don't need to run the furnace, then we can open the windows during the day, then suddenly we're leaving the windows open all night and tomorrow it's supposed to get up to 80 °F. I love having the house open, but over the past year or so, open windows have correlated with bad cat toilet habits.

Again, enough about that.

I've been playing around with my 50 mm lens some. I think I have wide angle eyes, because with this lens I'm always having to back away from my subject. Other than that, it's a great lens, beautifully sharp and smooth. Oz and I were playing with the speedlight and I took a bunch of pictures of the cats (my principal models).

One thing about the fabulous optics and great resolution? When I view the photos in full screen mode on my monitor, I can see what a bad housekeeper I am. We have got some major dust in this house. One picture was of Sparky classily drinking out of the toilet. That picture would be appropriate for I can has cheezburger except that I can see how it's time to clean the toilet. It's also easy to see when someone needs to do a little nostril grooming.

I don't think I'll be posting any of those images. But here's one taken with that same lens.

X-treme pruning at North 27th near East Broad Street

The city and power company have been doing some long overdue pruning. If they cut the trees away from the power lines, maybe we'll have fewer power outages during the storm season. There'd better be. I want something to offset the loss of shade.