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Feline dozing

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This afternoon, Missy decided to make herself at home on the back of my thighs and on my butt while I lay on the ground. She slept in many positions for about two hours before getting up!

missy the cat sleeping on my butt and back of thighs

missy the cat curled up on the back of my legs

Position #1: all curled up.

missy the cat laying on back of my thighs with arms and legs dangling off the sides

Position #2: relaxing and letting the limbs dangle.

missy the cat snuggling in and tucking face into arms

Position #3: cozying up and tucking in her face.

Using those photos, I decided to make a collage on Diptic that I then posted on Instagram.
collage of missy the cat sleeping on my butt and back of thighs in many positions

Afterwards, I shot a couple more positions that she slept in…

missy the cat sleeping outstretched on back of my legs

Position #4: all stretched out.

missy the cat sleeping on back of my legs with head and arm dangling down the side

Position #5: the dangle.

view from the ground of missy the cat sleeping on back of my legs with head and arm dangling off the side

Position #5 from ground level.

Finally, she yawned, got up, stretched, and moved to a spot on the floor. I was free to move again!
missy the cat yawning after sleeping on back of my legs

missy the cat stretching out her arms and back after long nap

missy the cat curled up to sleep on the floor

Cat crime

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two cats both looking up at window high up

Yesterday I came downstairs to find both my cats staring intently up at the living room window that’s near the roof.

injured hummingbird resting on window ledge

It turns out that what I thought was a large moth was actually a hummingbird that one of them had caught. It found refuge on the window ledge.

missy the cat who brought in the hummingbird

There’s the guilty party who caught that hummingbird and brought it in.

bunch of hummingbird feathers strewn on the floor

This is the “crime scene,” where Missy probably wrestled with that hummingbird and it managed to fly away.

two hummingbird feathers in the palm of my hand to show scale

Here are two of the feathers so you can see how dainty they are. Unfortunately I had to leave for the day and by the time I came back, I found that the hummingbird must have tried to escape again only to get caught. 🙁

Horsing around

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When Panda and I were in Hawaii, we took half a day to go out to Kualoa Ranch, where we went on a two-hour horseback riding tour. Along the way, we ran across some chickens, cattle, and rebellious horses.

Here we came across a hen and some chicks. I’m surprised they stayed so close to the horses!

horse & chicken from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

The cattle stared at us suspiciously, but decided they’d let us pass without charging.

horse & cattle from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

My horse Toby kept going his own pace, which meant getting a fair distance behind the rest, so every now and then he’d trot to catch up. Bumpy!

trotting horse from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Here are some of the horses that weren’t “on the job” that day. I can’t tell if these two were nuzzling, neck-wrestling, or fighting.

nuzzling fighting horses from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Little fish, big ocean

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If you look closely, you can see a bunch of teeny little fish swimming around! They look like minnows that belong in a creek.

tiny ocean fish from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Strange trio

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We were wandering around the Hilton Waikiki Village and came across this little habitat! I’ve never seen penguins, turtles, and fish all living together. Pretty cool!

penguins, a koi fish, and a turtle all in one habitat at hilton waikiki village in hawaii

Shameless

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Animals just do what they do and don’t care if you’re watching or not. Meanwhile, people have the exact opposite problem and get too self-conscious.

ram urination from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Breath of fresh air

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Out off the coast of Oahu, we got to enjoy a ride on the ocean before hopping in for some snorkeling! At this location, there were a bunch of sea turtles hanging out and just as we arrived, we saw this guy coming up for air. I was basically within arms reach of another one when it came up for air later on – soooo cool!

surfacing sea turtle from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Summertime in the east

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It’s hot out in the eastern part of the states! With summer in full force, we went to enjoy the neighborhood…

synthetic ice cubes

At the clubhouse, iced tea is offered with these funny plastic ice cubes keeping it cool.

cluster of female ducks hanging out by edge of pond

The girl ducks were out tanning in the sun.

dragonfly takes a break on plants by edge of pond

Even this dragonfly needed to take a break in the heat.

A Dole anole

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green anole lizard at dole plantation in hawaii

At the Dole Plantation, we spotted this little green lizard (an anole, I believe).

green anole lizard at dole plantation in hawaii starting to turn brown

It froze on this leaf and I got distracted by a rooster, only to look back and find...

green anole lizard at dole plantation in hawaii after turning brown

...it turned brown on me! Ah I wish I had noticed/caught it, but I had no idea it could morph like that.

In retrospect, I can see that it was already starting to turn brown in the middle picture. Alas, I figured it was just a green lizard so I never thought to watch it so closely.

Missing Missy & Molly

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Tomorrow I head off to Hawaii, and leave behind my cats. So here’s a clip of Missy doing her thing and massaging my childhood blanket…

Also not to be left out, a picture of Molly lounging in one of her favorite spots.

molly the cat lounging in her favorite spot at the top of the stairs

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