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Vintage Photo: Snow Cat, 1996
Kublai gives commentary while following me through the paths I’d shoveled. Kublai is giving me instructions on how to be a better snow shoveler. Even though Kublai wasn’t well that winter, nothing...
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The Artist’s Life: The Inspiration of a Certain Black Kitty
The Black Cat Sculpture It was something about the flowing curved shape he made as he swung around to begin washing his shoulder and hip, from his nose up over his forehead and around and over his...
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Vintage Photo: The First Cat Photo Taken in This House, 1991
Kublai, my lighting director. Yes, it took me until the next year to photograph pretty much anything in my house, let alone any of my cats. I probably couldn’t find my camera in all the mess! But here...
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Friends at the End
Fawn and Kublai curled up on my bed. In early 1996 it became clear that Kublai wasn’t recovering through strictly medical means from the mystery illness that had been causing him to slowly waste away...
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The Feline Therapist
Kublai on the landing, in the sun. In the studio I turned around to see three black cats lazing about in the sun on the landing, and came around to a memory of another black cat in the sun on that...
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Featured Artwork: Sunbath, a 1993 Painting of a 1983 Moment
“Sunbath”, watercolor, 1993, 21″ x 14 • Bernadette E. Kazmarski A study of winter sunlight, because there’s a cat in it. It’s a very simple scene: a black cat having a bath in front of a white painted...
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The Cats in My Garden
Cookie with Daffodils. Years ago, while I was still working in my day job, I also did a fair amount of freelancing in design, art and writing. One place I’d had a few short pieces published was Organic...
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Vintage Photo: Girl and Cat Meet Camera, 1983
Kublai rolls around in the sun in one of my first photos, ever. This photo is from the very first roll of film I shot with my fully manual Pentax K1000, my first camera ever, in October 1983, as I...
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The Narrowing Path
Kublai and me in August 1996. “Just keep him comfortable.” It sounded so easy, but often it’s the most difficult part of the journey, physically and emotionally. It’s also one of the closest bonds...
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The Artist’s Life: The Splendor of Autumn
Hilltop Farm, 10″ x 7″ pastel, 1996 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski I looked up at the clouds and thought, “They look just like those clouds… .” I posted the first draft of this story in 2011 and expanded it...
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Vintage Photo: The First Cat Photo Taken in This House, 1991
Kublai, my lighting director. Yes, it took me until the next year to photograph pretty much anything in my house, let alone any of my cats. I probably couldn’t find my camera in all the mess! But here...
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Featured Artwork: Sunbath, a 1983 Moment, a 1993 Painting
“Sunbath”, watercolor, 1993, 21″ x 14 • Bernadette E. Kazmarski A study of winter sunlight, because there’s a cat in it. It’s a very simple scene: a black cat having a bath in front of a white painted...
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To love that well, which thou must leave ‘ere long
One of the photos of Kublai I’ve always intended to paint. In January 2010 I organized my thoughts on pet loss and began writing articles to fill the outline of what I wanted to say. Having lost quite...
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In 1996 as Kublai’s seemingly undiagnosable condition progressed I saw Fawn cuddling with him, highly unusual, but an animal intuitive The post Friends at the End appeared first on The Creative Cat.
View ArticleVintage Photo: Dinnertime for Nine, 1994
My entire household of nine resident cats—and one is just out of range of this photo but you’ll see her The post Vintage Photo: Dinnertime for Nine, 1994 appeared first on The Creative Cat.
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Allegro’s Garden
Allegro’s garden The crocuses have finished and now it’s time for the color show of the yellow daffodils and blue squills; a little later we’ll see the tulips. In late September 1996, Allegro...
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Daily Photo: Hug Your Cat Day
Me and Mimi Every day is Hug Your Cat Day here, and I’m sure it is in your home too, if your kitty is of the mind for it. Here is a photo of Mimi and me from 2015. Below are photos from previous years....
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Vintage Photo: Kublai and Moses, Home Office, June, 1993
Kublai and Moses on a sunny June morning. Just three years after I moved in here, and two precious kitties, a real time capsule. Kublai and Moses loved that side window where the sun still comes in...
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Fragments
Kublai on the landing, in the sun. I’m not one to think everything happens for a reason, that things align through time to lead one to an epiphany of some sort, but that we are the ones who choose that...
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Vintage Photo: A Sunny Room, 1983
Kublai with plant, 1983, One of my first photos with my “new” Pentax K1000. This is definitely one from the archives! It’s probably taken in 1983, when I first got my camera and began photographing...
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