Nora, Ernesto and Miss Petunia
Paintings
In Costa Rica
Photographs from the Southwest
Creature comforts: the menagerie
Chronicles: Poems from Arizona History
Road to Ruins, Photos (AZ, CO, & NM)
Birds around the house
Nora, Ernesto and Miss Petunia
Poems Close to Home
Earthbones- paintings into poems
One night in January 2011 we were alerted to a cat on the premises of a nearby set of expensive apartments down the street from our central Phoenix house. She was getting snacks from the night watchman. We manged to lure her out and catch her, so she has been a member of the household until recently in 2022 when ill health struck. That was Nora, the black cat. Ernesto showed up on West Palm Lane a couple of years later and was taken in. He crossed the Rainbow Bridge unexpectedly also in 2022. Miss Petunia, the tortie, was senior cat for a while, but ill health took her in 2021. She had been taken in as a kitten and remained a pleasantly unusual cat.