View from the Loft

Rainbow!

And what a rainbow! It was huge, it was incredibly bright, and it was a double, even (though faint) at the top of the arch. I don't think we've ever seen a rainbow quite so brilliant.

Note the second rainbow left of the "main" one. I've been told that the double is a reflection of the actual rainbow, and sure enough, you can see that the order of the color bands is reversed in the reflection.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy birthday, no-longer-kittens

Tomorrow our kittens are a year old. I've always understood that they cease to be kittens and become cats at that time--at least, the makers of kitten food so assert. Well, they still behave like kittens, and they're still growing.

Here they are at one of their favorite pastimes: bird- and squirrel-watching:

 

And here they are, intently following the movements of some insect:

 

As I've said before, they were litter mates and inseparable, and they still like to be near each other much of the time. Happy birthday, kitties!

Another earworm ...

Are some people more likely to have earworms than others? Because I'm really plagued with them. And they don't arise because I've lately heard the song somewhere or anything. They just pop up in my brain. Anyway, here's the latest.  Talk about nostalgia!