Happy Valentine's Day!

[lavendertook]

Happy Valentine's Day, my dear flisties! A little late, but what's new?


Here are passion flowers for you from a couple of summers ago by Greenbelt Lake.



And here's Super Sonic Saki and Tuxie being loving from last summer.





"OMG, she's sleeping next to me!" says a surprised Saki about a peaceful Ms. Moo.



I am so owned.



The Three in relaxed proximity. Maybe one day they will all 3 cuddle together, but I'm not holding my breath. Moo scares the shit out of Tuxie--he respects his mom. They make me feel like an Oankali third (a reference for the Octavia Butler Xenogenesis readers out there) when they range themselves around me in bed--I am the Cuddle Resource.



This was Brigit with her pretty little sister Ostra in November 2011 when we first brought them to Warwick. I lost Ostra this month last year--Brigit may have lost her the December before as they went their separate ways navigating their new environment. I will make a memorial post for my lost little calico soon. But there is some very good news, and some sweet to this bitter. T reports that Brigit has a new kitty love in her life. Second chances rule. (-: I'll tell you all about that very soon.

<3 & *hugs* to you all.

Comments

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

yes.....i admit that there is not much hope that she took anything but the Long Journey. In that case, you must celebrate her innocent life, and be glad that any suffering that she did know is done.

will look forward to seeing your celebration/tribute/memorial to her when you are ready!

take care, my friend.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

One of my flist friends near here just lost a dear little feral girl this month, and it hit home with me what this time of year bodes for lone travels. I thank you for your hope, hon, and you were witness last year to all the false hope I was given by unreliable sources. It is possible she lives, and I'd love it to be true, but it is so unlikely. And selfishly, I think it hurts more to hope at this point, because that makes me need to keep searching, and I'd rather throw my love and resources behind the one I know is living, and the ferals on my block, who I've already started trying to look out for. I am thankful I was given what I now think were the last couple of weeks of her life to reconnect with her, and got to at least give her the comfort of 4 good meals before she probably died or was killed. It was such a chance thing that we ran into each other that icy night in January. Such a character she was.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

when we lose those we love, the hardest thing of all, i think, is to not cling to hope and go on and on down such a path. No matter where she is now, she is beyond your help. That's not a comfort, not in the slightest, but sometimes the truth hurts more than anything.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*nods*