Got a Throwback Thursday tonight.
My beloved Murko the Cat, circa early 1970s.
Recently found a few home-developed and enlarged-in-a-bathroom darkroom black & whites in a trunk in the garage. (Most of my early photos were destroyed in a basement flood in the early 1980s . . . .)
Murko and I were bonded.
When I went into hospital for scoliosis surgery in my early teens and was away from home for over a month, my parents said he lost half his body weight in depression.
When I got home, he sat on my body cast 23/24 hours a day.
Never tell me cats show no love, eh?
BTW, “Murko” means “he who purrs” in Ukrainian.
In a previous post yesterday I shared some birding photos from Iona Beach Regional Park.
Here are some scenic views from the same ramble.
Following a morning shooting birds at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR (see previous post), I headed down to the Historic Stewart Farm in Surrey, BC.
Pileated Woodpecker in action vid: https://youtu.be/QeGdLjhvKUg
In the first part of a wildlife photo double-header, I spent a few hours at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR before heading down to south Surrey.
And a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/N9LfiQAV1ks
Accountability.
Putin has long been failing in his efforts to “restore” the bloody glory of empire.
Why kill your neighbours, their children? Why bomb hospitals and schools?
The man is demented, but it’s so scary that so many Russians are still following his orders.
I am talking to you, Russian soldier. Why are you killing children?
Why are you bombing schools and hospitals? Why target the kids and the wounded with your missiles?
Have you no conscience?
Russian TV is still celebrating the invasion, no matter how many Russian lives, and Ukrainian lives, it has taken.
Mass delusion.
But. . .
There’s something in the wind. Dictators rarely get this freaked out.
The killer looks increasingly pasty, tired.
We appeal to all Russians of concscience, of love. . . Stop.
Refuse to fight, to continue this invasion.
Refute the madman.
Join Ukraine in democracy and freedom.
Among the greatest speeches of all time.
We were told “you have no other option than to surrender.”
“We say, we have no other option than to win.”
“The world did not lose peace, Russia destroyed it.”
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