Flowers and Snowflake

Before I left for Portland a couple of weeks ago, I was having fun taking pictures of flowers in my yard (or ones that hang into my yard). While I sadly have very few flowers, it's looking like I won't be adding more at least until spring. Here are a few of the pictures I liked.


I really like how the contrast turned out in the picture with the blue berries. I have no idea how I did that, so it wasn't done using my amazing purposeful camera skills :)

Next up is the Blogger debut of Snowflake my foster cat. While she didn't come out of the basement for 2 weeks, she is now a very affectionate cat who likes to sleep on my bed and watch TV on the couch with me. Her downfall is that she hates other pets, is a bit skittish, and doesn't like to be picked up, so finding her a home is going to be difficult. If I could find a home like mine where she is allowed to adjust at her own pace, she would do very well. She now meows at me when I don't pay enough attention to her, which is starting to get a bit annoying and reminds me of Bryan's cat Penelope, minus the drooling! I was going to find her a new home when I come to Portland, but my roomie so cutely said "can you just transfer her to my name? I'm going to be lonely and she keeps me company." So thanks to Briana's kind heart, Snowflake will continued to be fostered here until she finds her forever home. She did not do so well during her first 3-day stint at Petco, probably because of the large number of barking dogs that come by, so she might be best adopted from Petfinder where someone can come here to meet her.