Tavern's Member Picture Gallery.

Snapped this pair of fuzzballs in the park today. Quite pleased with it, caught the poses at just the right time.

 

That's an excellent photograph.

 

Spoiler: The kitten isn't feeling it today

Messing around with my settings again.

 

Flies? Spiders? Something worse (it is Australia, after all)?

 

Need one of these, do you?

 

Spoiler: Flowers

Thought I'd take some last shots of the garden before Summer wraps it up for the year.

 

Spoiler: Halloween decorations

Spoiler: Another

 

This is an excellent photograph. It makes me happy!

 

I took a gander up to the local cemetery and took this snap of an old World War 1 memorial of a Monk on his knee raising a wreath of peace to the heavens.

Spoiler: Memorial

Spoiler: Found this then reflected on it

Decided it was too deep for me then jaunted off down the road to the near by field to give this fella some carrots.

Spoiler: Said carrot muncher

 

Spoiler: Out and about in Saint Andrews

Spoiler: Cathedral Ruins

 

Spoiler: Angel Memorial

Spoiler: Not my best pic of the day but my fave

Saint Andrews is a magical place.

 

Today, this little floof graduated from not my cat (outside cat) to my cat (inside cat).

I bought a litter box. It's official.

 

Thanks, man. As a younger man, I never would have thought a rural address would be my choice, but quiet is not an easy thing to find in Puerto Rico. My culture does not prize stoic silence, but I have come to appreciate it, thus, the country.

The occasional procession of escaped cows is always entertaining:

Spoiler: Escaped Cows

They live in the property behind mine, but find their way through the yard of my side neighbor and then out in front of my house, or, if I've left the gate open, into my yard. Sometimes I give them mangoes. Just a few. They get tipsy if they get too many. Fermentation and all that jazz.

Spoiler: Cows like mangoes

 

Hold up. What?

 

Never seen it happen myself, but shortly after this beach-burbs boy moved to the country, my neighbor had a word with me about my generosity with the mangoes.

 

Is it something to do with bovine physiology or are you leaving your mangoes in the sun too long?

 

Possibly both? There are numerous mango trees on the property, so they tend to just go to waste. One of the trees is a super-producer and has lost limbs under the weight of its own fruit. I try to pick up nicer ones - ones I would keep for myself - to give to the cows.

 

Not just cows. It happens with elephants as well, although perhaps not with mangos. Quite a few different animals will ingest naturally fermented fruit. The smell draws them in.