Olga felt energetic yesterday morning, so we walked our full route around the housing estate. This planter is always full of flowers. They're a little past their peak now, but still looking good.
Here they were at the end of July:
Here they were at the end of July:
Impressive lilies, right?
We also saw the cross-eyed cat yesterday:
Olga and this cat have been glaring at each other for years, and both are senior citizens at this point. They put on a show of antagonism, but I'm not sure how deeply either one is feeling it.
Anyway, it felt great to get a walk in with the dog. I am sticking close to home these days because the dog never wants to go far and I feel guilty leaving her behind. I realize this is insane but it is what it is. I bought a ticket to a Royal Photographic Society exhibit tonight that I plan to attend just to get myself out of the house.
After walking Olga, I was off to work, where the day was uneventful.
Not long after school started I found this in the library. It's an enamel pin that obviously fell off someone's jacket or bag. I'm still not sure what it depicts, but I'm leaning toward a sheep. (At first I thought it was clouds, and then I thought it was a pig or cow.) I put it on my desk so its owner could find it but no luck so far. A sixth-grader was exclaiming over it yesterday -- she called it a cow -- and I told her I'd give it to her if no one claimed it by the end of the week.
The cat does not appear phased at all
ReplyDeleteNah, they're old nemeses. It's more like, "Oh, YOU again."
DeleteSo nice to see Olga and the cat carrying on their tradition. The flower box is lovely and so is that little pin. I hope the owner comes back for it.
ReplyDeleteI actually gave it to the other student. It's been hanging around on my desk long enough!
DeleteIt's good to see street planting, especially when it looks cared for.
ReplyDeleteOlga and the cat have their principles!!
I hope the sheep gets reunited with the owner
I think one of the apartment tenants has clearly "adopted" that planter. It looks better than any of the others on the estate!
DeleteIt's like living on the wildside when you are a school librarian - you never know what might happen. Today a weird enamel pin, tomorrow an overdue book returned...
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty good summary of my life at the moment!
DeleteThat shot of Olga and the cat is adorable. The planter is wonderful. Thanks for sharing an earlier photo, too. As for the pin. I can’t tell WHAT it is. Pig did come to mind. A very peculiar pig.
ReplyDeleteI kept meaning to use that older photo and never did, and then the perfect opportunity arose!
DeleteI'm glad Olga and the Cross Eyed Cat are still on glaring terms!
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see, isn't it? Old friends. Sort of.
DeleteI Love the Olga and Cat standoff!
ReplyDeleteNever-ending and ongoing!
DeleteIt's always lovely to see photos of Olga. The pin is rather nice.
ReplyDeleteI know, I've been giving you a lot of Olga lately. I'm glad everyone is so patient!
DeleteI think it's a cow too - the nose looks cowish to me. Cute!
ReplyDeleteIt seems too fluffy to be a cow, doesn't it? But I agree about the nose.
DeleteI was going to say that the nose looks like a pig nose to me. It's celestial, whatever animal it may be.
ReplyDeleteI love Olga and the cat carrying on their long-time tradition. Olga will never give up her fantasy of giving that cat the bruisin' she so obviously deserves for...being a cat.
Nice flowers for sure!
I should have called this post "A Cloudy Sheep or a Celestial Sow." It's like a tongue-twister!
DeleteI'm glad Olga had a good walk. It's hard watching animals getting old, both cats and dogs. Our cat is thirteen now and has arthritis, which at least prevents her from getting out of the yard. She may be old but this year she killed a bird and a vole. And Heidi is slowing down too, going to bed earlier and I take her for shorter walks now.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they were an old vole and and old bird!
DeleteSheep. Cow. Who can tell. Meanwhile, Olga and the cat are cracking me up. I'm glad she's still walking.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the day. Today she wasn't interested at all!
DeleteI googled cow pins and I see some that are similar.
ReplyDeleteI like how Olga has her traditions on her walks - like glaring at her cat nemesis! :)
Thanks for Googling! You're probably right that it's a cow. That seems to be the popular opinion.
DeleteI still bristle up whenever I drive by a Walmart but like Olga, I'm not as passionately opposed to them as I once was.
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
DeleteHa!
DeleteThat planter is looking great! I'm leaning toward sheep also. Interesting little pin.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the photo show!
Right? The fluffiness says sheep to me.
Deleteat first I thought whatever it is was one eyed but then I noticed the two dots lower down for the eyes. I don't think it's a sheep since sheep don't have snouts like that. cow maybe. and those lilies were exceptional.
ReplyDeleteCow seems to be the popular consensus!
DeleteMy first thought was cow. It's kinda cute! A bit like Ferdinand the bull smelling flowers in the pasture.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, Ferdinand! Haven't thought of him in years.
DeleteI'm going with cow also - a combination of the nose, ears and hooves :D
ReplyDeleteI understand that guilt you feel. It has another name: empathy.
Yeah, I guess that's true. I just hate leaving her at home. She gets stressed, especially as she gets older.
DeleteI don't know what that pin is, but it's cute! The flowers are still beautiful; mine aren't doing very well lately and I'm to the stage where I'm tired of watering.
ReplyDeleteYeah, when they start to fade it's hard to maintain enthusiasm!
DeleteIt is a cow. See the two little horns?
ReplyDeleteDon't sheep have horns? Rams? (But I think you're probably right that it's a cow.)
DeleteSomebody is doing a lovely job with the sidewalk planter. Olga and the cat enjoy glaring at each other. The pin is nicely crafted.
ReplyDeleteI guess when you're a pet, and your days are filled with lying around on a sofa and eating dependably delivered food, it's exciting to have a brush with the predatory world of nature!
Deletedeffinately a cow.
ReplyDeleteOlga and the cat is just the best photo I have seen in a very long time- So perfect it looks set up!
Not set up! Fortunately they held that pose long enough for me to get a shot.
DeleteI'm not sure what it is but most people seem to think it's a cow. So, mooo? It's adorable whatever it is.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm coming around to the cow perspective!
DeleteIt's frustrating when you can't keep to a regular routine but one has to consider Olga.
ReplyDeleteAnd Olga DOES love her routines, normally, but they're changing a bit these days.
DeleteI hope the exhibition was interesting. Olga seems chipper enough in the photo with the cat.
ReplyDeleteAs it turns out, the exhibition didn't happen -- at least, not yet! Yeah, Olga is quite chipper when she's not sleeping, which is about 23 hours a day. :)
DeleteLove those portraits of Olga. She definitely was feeling energetic.
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