Shelter From the Storm

I know you’re waiting for the ending of my Wednesday post about our friend George so I’m going to make you wait a little longer. HAH! I’m starting with my entry in Athena and Marie’s Caturday Art Blog Hop. I was playing around with a couple of pics that I had already played around with. Here’s the result of my playing. I like the above pic cos the blankie has an almost 3-D effect.

Directly below I used the Inner Shadow effect first and them played around in PhotoCat. They don’t name their textures but I liked this one so much, I used it twice. You can’t tell but both pics on the right have film edges. PhotoCat also lets you compare before and after shots so we did screen grabs.

The pic (bottom, left) was originally done using a Lithos filter. Anyone remember lithographs? TW does. She remember rotogravure too. It’s also my entry in Ruckus Eskie’s Sepia Saturday.

I hope you read our Wednesday post about our friend George. When we left off, George had passed away, leaving Gertrude, Tippy, Hope, Rusty and Wendell “orphaned” and unceremoniously dumped back into the yard. Friendly Fred had disappeared while George was still alive. No one knows where he went but it wasn’t good. Here’s where this week’s PhotoHunt—told ya we’d revisit it—challenge fits in. The challenge is Shelter. I know you want to know where this is going. Did they wind up in the shelter?

Although the peeps couldn’t take all the kitties in, they continued to feed them and they told the new upstair’s neighbor the kitties' story. While he was too immature to care for any animals he did what he could, including building them this shelter. He put it up on the porch and out of the weather. It was two carpeted floors and big enough for them to all crowd in. Of course, the biggest problem was the strife between Gertie and Wendell. Gertie was the oldest. She loved being an indoor cat so she moved into the basement where the neighbor had his art studio. She had a litter box and feeding station where she lived until she went OTRB at a ripe old age.

The Calico’s private two story SHELTER. Look at the great paint job. They even have their name on it!

All the kitties lived well into their teenage years. Rusty and Wendell were such good furrends, they went OTRB within days of each other. Even though Rusty had an autoimmune disease, he lived a long and mostly happy life. They were loved by all the neighbors in the old house. They were born in 1986 and Gertrude was still alive to see the new millennium.

Check out who’s riding in the fire truck watching George!