BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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RHYMES WRUNG

 

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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BLABBERWOCKY

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite found in Morocco in 2019 taken in February 2020.

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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LITTLE BLACK KITTY

 

“There are no ordinary cats.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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POLYESTER TUSSIES

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Salisbury, England in June 2007. Thanks to the Wilder Feger for the title.

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BISOUS

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~  Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of lipstick kisses left on Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris in August 2015.

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GREY

 

“Grey day.

Everything is grey.

I watch.

But nothing moves today.”

 

~ Dr. Seuss ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

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BEES KNEES

 

“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”

 

~ William Golding ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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UNE MAISON DE CAMPAGNE

 

“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant,

who finds peace in his home.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Dordogne Valley, France in July 1985.

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CHAIRMAN MEOW

 

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

 

~ Mao Zedong ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in the Rue Broca in Paris in May 2017.

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PUSSY IN PARIS

 

“I love cats because I enjoy my home;

and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Original photo of street art cats taken on the Rue Ortolan, Paris in May 2017.

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THE FIFTH CAT

 

“That’s the great secret of creativity.

You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

 

~ Ray Bradbury ~

 

Digitally enhanced image of the third cat, Loki, created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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ROZ VEN

 

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.”

 

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in my garden in July 2004.

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HOUSE AND GARDEN

 

“She has a house and garden,

I would like to see what happens…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2013.

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A KITCHEN FULL OF CATS

 

“To err is human, to purr is feline.”

 

~ Robert Byrne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in January 2017.

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KITTEN

 

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

 

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

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LITTLE LION

 

“If only cats grew into kittens.”

 

~ Robert A.M. Stern ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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THE CURIOUS KITTEN

 

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

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THE PERTINACIOUS CAT

 

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience –

that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

 

Elizabeth Taylor

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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