Yesterday I took my camera down to the Capital Mall, a park surrounding the Oregon capital building, and took many photos. You can see them at www.flickr.com/SpriritWaterPublications/ When I got home, I submitted my favorite one to the Statesman Journal, our local paper, along with one I took of my friend’s cat while house sitting for her. Today I looked them up online and found they had published them both on their website. (I don’t know about newsprint yet.) When I told Katie about the picture of Julian, she said begrudgingly, “That’s a good picture, even if it is of a cat.” And by the way, that was after a bit of prodding after her initial objections to the picture soley because it was of a cat. Trying to sound very threatening, I retorted, “I’m going to blog you!” when she simply replied with “21st century threats.” Humph. I rest my case. And when I know what that case is, I’ll let you know. In the meantime, here are the photos and links in question. 
Ugh! A bushy tailed RAT! Poison them all.!!
No! No! No! I love the squirrels! They are quickly becoming one of my favorite photography subjects. I’ll be posting more pictures as soon as I get them off my friends camera. We took some from when she picked me up for lunch.