Little lizard

The mice killer?

We would enjoy if Java will kill mice around the house.

For sure, at the moment, she is really enjoying her new toy, a plush mouse filled with catnip. She loves it so much that she falls asleep hugging it.

A nap beside…

…my owner, but his sister was born to annoy and came in the room waking me up, oof!

I guess I got most of my relatives used to the shutter noise, indeed they don’t wake up any more when I take pictures of them sleeping.
I wonder if I’ll ever get Java used to the shutter noise… ^_^

A “nap” on…

the stomach of the guy taking a nap on the armchair

A beauty you wouldn’t touch

Imho, there are things like a the colors and motions of a jellyfish that can be fascinating, that you can appreciate, but that you would never wish to hug or find really close to you.

I don’t think their more or less dangerous tentacles are a lack of beauty, I think they remind you that at time you just have to stay apart to really appreciate something. They can teach a sort of positive humility.

Oh, well, they also can teach you how much your boyfriend loves you… Indeed, when I started hanging out of the dock, to point the camera over the sea area where there were 4 or 5 of this creatures, the webmaster started fighting against his fear of “getting to close to the dock edge” to stay beside me in order to “catch me in time if I loose my balance”. ^_^

Seagulls once again

Applied Physics

When I took this picture yesterday, I thought: Java knows physics better than I do…

Wouldn’t you sleep in a pillowcase?

What happens if you place a cat in a pillowcase?

A normal cat: gets upset.

Java: starts purring louder and falls asleep.

Possible but unusual, as the most amazing things in life.

Goodnight world!

Kindness

At times a resolute and sweet approach to some problems can be the only solution…

[Or a good way for a kitty to get whatever it wants ]

The power of a simple picture

I think I’ve already talked about this aspect of taking pictures.

I love the different ways an image can help recalling a bunch of emotions and memories that I’d have forgot otherwise.

We, people, usually take pictures for important moments: weddings, anniversary, important religious event in a person life (e.g. the first communion pictures for a catholic) or just simple travel pictures. This is what I define a “linear” way of recalling event. Those pictures directly help you recalling about that special day.

There are, instead, pictures like the this one

that just speaks to the hearth of who had took that, and eventually, to those who were with the “photographer” in the moment he/she took that picture.

You guys would see just a little turtle. You are right but…

the little turtle reminds me of the table on which she’s placed, of the balcony where this table stay.
It reminds me of the door that bring from the balcony to the kitchen, and therefore I remember of the webmaster sitting at that table trying to save Merins’ laptop and all the data stored there. It reminds me of Merins talking, offering me the ice cream, asking me if I were still playing with the turtle.
It reminds me that few minutes later, while I was still trying to take picture of that turtle, Merins’ daughter, that we will just call Sunshine, woke up.
It reminds me of Sunshine coming on the balcony with one big smile to say me “hi”.
It recalls me of Sunshine’s surprised expression when she saw and liked this picture! (I’ve felt so proud in that moment, sorry! ^_^)
It also recall the moment when Sunshine tried to open a coconut, and how we all cooperated (i’ve funny picture of this moment too). It was tasty!
Oh yeah, that little turtle will always make me thinking of that “salmon color” sauce on the pasta that Merins prepared for dinner, and for the melon and the webmaster’s disgusted face at tasting it (bad guy!).
This picture will always be one of those little things that will make me recalling of Sunshine’s smile that after dinner, holding her laptop, asks with a little jump “Who wants to play to Trivia?”. (I’m not sure of the game name).
And the way Merins looked at us playing. She was behind us but at time I was able to look at her smile in a reflection on the TV… like a mama, like what she is.
It reminds me of the many time we laughed… and how the webmaster looked like a little tired baby.

That’s what I love of taking pictures, they are the way I don’t need much words or images to remember each detail of a whole day… even after several years.

Or in a simpler way, it will always testify the way a simple picture can make you thinking of the great value of friendship.

Studying astrophysics can be extremely tiring…

Actually astrophysics is among the few things that I still enjoy reading about… but Java seems considering it boring.

Today we (me and my family) had lunch and spent the afternoon-evening time at the house where my brother lives. I played with the kitty (read:I’ve taken picture to her), and then I tried to study a little while Java was sleeping beside me.

If wasn’t that at certain point, for only God knows the reason, she jumped on my stomach (I was kinda curled up with my book) and got back sleeping on my astrophysics book. I’d have never thought a book could have been more comfortable than an armchair…

I tried, of course, taking a few picture of Java sleeping on “astrophysics knowledge”… but light wasn’t great and position even less great since the book, and therefore the cat, was on my lap and I was sitting not exactly in the proper way…beside these aspects, I was using my father’s lens that is great because it’s an f 1.4 but it doesn’t focus thing that are closer than 45cm and it’s like a big zoom (on my camera it’s an equivalent of about 100mm). This last aspect usually is something good, but if you have to take a decent shot of a very very close subject a great aspect turns into a little problem.

Then I made her going back to sleep beside me and I kept on reading/trying to study.