At Last

OK, I finally have the cat pics uploaded.  Here they are, in all their furry glory.

Sebastian has this truly amazing talent for turning away from the camera between the moment you hit the button and the moment the picture is actually taken--the best (or, really, only) reason I've found so far for preferring film to digital¹.  He's also prone to running away when you start doing anything unfamiliar around him, like waving metal boxes in his general direction while clicking your tongue at him. But I finally managed to get him.  He's got that phosphorescent glow in his eyes because of the cataracts; really he's the only cat I've ever encountered with brown eyes.  Also his stripes aren't quite as pronounced in real life.  Viola, meanwhile, looks like she has irregular pupils because she has irregular pupils; it's a result of the surgery she had to have to get the polyp out of her head and is nowhere near as bad as it was in the week or so immediately afterwards.  It doesn't seem to impair her even a little bit--she's just as catastrophically athletic as ever².  She's a little closer to the camera than I'd intended, due again to the lag time between button and picture; while I was waiting for the shot to happen she decided she wanted a closer view of whatever I was doing.

1: I'm sure there are photographers who can tell me all sorts of reasons to prefer one or the other in different situations, but me, I just want pictures of my cats for the blog.  It's enough of a hassle getting the photos onto the computer and edited and uploaded and all that jazz; if I had to get them developed and scanned too it would simply never happen.

2: I have seen this cat make 10-foot broad jumps from the floor to the back of the couch.  Granted she had a running start, it's still not easy for an animal less than a yard from nose to tail tip and maybe ten inches high at the shoulder.  We don't know about Sebastian because he can't improvise the way she does; with his impaired vision he doesn't do much jumping and that little is only over familiar routes.

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