Mad Times

More evidence that Alice will sacrifice propriety if it comes into conflict with other priorities like getting in the sweet spot for the maximum warmth from the furnace vent.

Theo was helping me stay focused on the song we were playing at drumming the other day.

You know how a few weeks ago I said that Alice has a highly developed sense of propriety? Well, except when she doesn’t.

And lest you think that she was just lying there like that, see below for a little animation of the photo shoot this was an outtake from.

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Not much of a picture, but I was lucky to catch her at all. Alice has a very finely developed sense of propriety and while in her mind it’s okay for her to do the silliest things, it is decidedly not okay for anyone to see her doing them. I got my camera out and got two shots off and the second is nothing but a blur jumping out of a wagon. Pumped the exposure up four whole stops and dramatically cropped in Lightroom, so that’s why it looks like it was painted by Monet before he had his cataract surgery. Do I get points for using the word “cataract” in a Friday cat blogging post?

That’s our friend’s cat, Narnia. He cannot get enough petting.