Antigone

This is one of the cats that comes around - She belongs somewhere- but she likes to come and sit with us.    She has extra toes and knows she is special.   Meet Antigone

Post Office Cont..

Downtown Post Office-  Mediterranean Revival type Architecture- Started construction in 1935-37
I like that it's at 824- - my birthday ~  Across the street is a great art supply store ( Keatons)  They have 40% off sales for 1 item every month.  

Downtown Postoffice

This is the downtown post office where I live- It's the one I love to go to - I really do not know the history of it- I'll find out and get back to you.
Ok I am back, I went to the library and looked at old articles about Bradenton Post Offices ( There was nothing about the one where I actually get my mail. The one above is my favourite one. 
It was opened for business Jan 2nd 1937- It is one of the few building with a basement around.. Some of the boxes are the original bronze combo locks ( later they added the key locks also. The walls are the original dark oak in certain area. The office area upstairs has 9 Oak captains chairs from the 30's original PO.  Next time I go in I'll ask to see the basement :) 
In Postcrossing I asked for your worst postcard- the one that sits in your drawer or box that you think no one wants.  Send it my way- I will send you a not so bad one back.

Sid's day

LOL  I was trying to draw a hat on him or something.  Who knew I was a great artist!   ( This is not his actual birthday just one I made up)

Cats Birthday

Frida

My photographs ae never straight reportage, never merely objective.  In them all, I have expressed myself, nothing else.   Andre Kertesz

Keep it simple

I have learned to see the simple things recently. Like scratching kitties heads, Old washboards, and the pattern of ferns.  What things do you go by and ignore because it's not showy enough?

Jane and Ted

Jane and Ted Humane Society.

Jane is one of those truly compassionate people who takes care of the kitties at the HS. She remembers all the cats, their stories and loves to tell adoption stories. Since this picture was taken Ted was adopted !

Other great news!  MORRIS was adopted wooooo!

There are new kitties waiting to be adopted though!

doors

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
William Blake

Found

Seattle - Sarasota

I love lists- picking up stuff off the ground- found art

When I Go - Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer

singing does not start until 2:50 or so.. by the late great Dave Carter and his partner Tracy Grammer

We need you!

Morris- Handsome cat

DJ- After the fun (Cat nip)  Deej went home 2 days after this was taken!

Twiggy self bather!

Twigs again relaxing after the bath

Cat Lady

The last time I was in Village of the Arts ( VOTA)  I ran across this lovely lady beside her was a jar of cat food and in front of her a dish of cat food for the stray kitties or other critters.
Here's to the people who help stray and feral cats, the ones who really care and have open hearts.  The ones who know it's not just a cat.

Bright Blessings.

The Cat's Song

The Cat's Song

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.

My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says

the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing

milk from his mother's forgotten breasts.



Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.

I'll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,

to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.

Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.



You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,

says the cat, although I am more equal than you.

Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?

Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?



Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.

My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.

My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the mornings

walking round and round your bed and into your face.



Come I will teach you to dance as naturally

as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.

I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.

Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word



of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg

and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass.



~ Marge Piercy

Taking out the trash- VOTA

Recycle

Too many times we throw things away or take things for granted.

Live life.

More Humane Society Cats :) updated 9/9

Nutmeg-friendly kitty will run you ragged!  Nutmeg went  hone :)

Sarah- She needs someone to understand her-beautiful girl
Sarah was adopted by an older gentleman who fell in love with her after seeing her picture in the paper!

Sheba- Very shy but loves her belly scratched. Sheba went home :)

3 More Kitties up for adoption at the Humane Society.  Each need a loving home.

To Kona

K,

Today I spelled out your name in stones.  I went to the coffee shop to write postcards. and when I came home there was a butterfly on the dirt where we buried you.  I know the empty hole in my heart will lessen in time. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your life for 13 plus years.

You belong among the wildflowers

Kona adopted on June 14th 1997- left on Sept 5th 2010

I love you Kona boo-  Kee Kee

Blue Fridge Postcards o

Postcards in August.. I  randomly reached into my box.  One of them is called a coven of cats by Alan Fletcher -Wrong end of the dip pen and ink .. more on him later .

Bert Jansch - Running From Home

I said I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me,


let me only not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot

to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give

what I held in my hands, that I forgot

to do some little piece of the work that

wanted to come through.

Marge Piercy

Books

Leaving behind the noise of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically desiccated and preserved. Left and right, absorbed in their shining dreams, the readers. momentary profiles are sketched by the light of their bright officious lamps.My vanity and nostalgia have set up an impossible scene. Perhaps so (I tell myself), but tomorrow I too will have died, and our times will intermingle and chronology will be lost in a sphere of symbols. And then in some way it will be right to claim that I have brought you this book, and that you have accepted it.



(J.L.Borges, El Hacedor, August 9, 1960)

Take the bus

I love taking the bus - Interesting people- Most of the time friendly. Saves gas too.

I was going to write something poetic about buses.. but all i can think of is the magic bus song.. 

We need a home

Morris (orange) and Twiggy before the hissing

Bonnie loves water!  Update on Bonnie - she found her forever home  YAY!!

Scarlett   She went home !  yay beautiful girl !

We are all up for adoption if you live in the  Tampa Bay area please come and see us at the Manatee County Humane Society - more cat pictures soon

To G in Seattle

Thanks for the great mail.

 When I go to the PO and see that there is a creative envelope from you my heart sings.

penpals

Pe

Agata and Veronika sent cards of the former Yugoslavia & Czechoslovakia.  It bought back memories of my first pen pals.. Seka from Doboj   and Jan from Podebrady.  I wonder what their lives are like now.

The Village Bookshop - Village of the Arts - Bradenton, FL

Where have all the indy bookstores gone-
I miss this and Doug

tomato and books

 Tomato and books

Went to the library to get  Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury.
Then in the new section a book about the Library.
plus the poetry dictionary for 25C
I was cking out the books when my friend the librarian came around with some tomatoes !
Who knew you could get a tomato at the library?




You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.--Ray Bradbury

For LUN

My friend Margie will leave her earthly body soon.  Although I only knew her through PostCrossing. Her cards and letters will keep her spirit alive.

Peace to you LUN.

postcards

I love older cards so Elena from Russia sent me these

1973 Russian Hockey team and coaches

a Congratulations card.

Museum ad card for Samovar
a Russian water vessel used for making tea
Lenin street in Yalla

An event on the railway- V Perov

Alla Pugacheva- Was in the semi autobiographical movie - a woman who sings 1984