365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Why Cats Paint Frogs Ahead Of Time
Day 89: The last 18 hours of my life have been consumed by a computer issue, the upshot of which is that I have a new display driver which unfortunately is incompatible with PaintShopPro. In order to bring you today's image, I've had to use an older version of the program and the semi-retired computer on which it is installed. Suffice to say that this arrangement of "Book Spine Poetry" is all the humour I could muster.
"Why Cats Paint" and its spin-off cousins, "Why Paint Cats" and "Dancing With Cats" are three utterly marvelous expositions of post-processing skills and dry wit. Like many people, I was about halfway through "Why Cats Paint" before I realized my leg was being pulled, and the images which gave me the first solid evidence were a sequence taken of the same cat (Minnie) at work on a single piece of art. Oh, it was the same cat. I have no doubt about that, but the earlier photos show a bobbed tail while in the later ones, the tail is full length. Cats' tails simply do not grow back, certainly not in the space of a few hours. At that point, I went back to the beginning of the book and re-read it with a different eye, and laughed my way through to the end, the moreso that I had been effectively gulled by the creators. And living with cats, I realize now that the reason they paint frogs ahead of time is because that although they use tools, they are backwards animals at best.
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