Garfield our pet cat.

We adopted a kitten from our neighbour about a year ago because they had to move away and felt they couldn't take the kitten to their new home. Sad for them, good for us. He came with the name Garfield and we just never changed it.

When we got him he was only a few weeks old so he could fit in the palm of your hand he was so small.

He used to (and still does) love to play with an old ribbon. He would hide under the table pouncing out at it as we flicked it near him.

Sometimes he even got it! 

Now he's over a year old, he still plays with ribbons and toys, but, he also roams outside bringing 'presents' of birds and small animals home for us. When he's not doing all of that you can find him curled up asleep somewhere around the house. Here he is fast asleep on one of our breakfast stools.

I got this picture of him in our garden just as an insect landed on his nose. Can you see it?

And that is golden eyed Garfield a very content and pampered member of our family.

Telephoto Lens in garden

Its been a while since I did this blog properly. I've been very remiss or is it just lazy, one of them.

Anyway I took delivery the other week of a new telephoto lens for my DSLR. It's a 500mm manual focus lens with a 2x converter option as well. I thought as the weather was nice yesterday I set it up on a tripod in the conservatory with both doors wide open. The theory was to get some good close up shots of the birds which frequent our garden. It was not to be though, I sat there for over an hour and not one bird came near the feeders. In the end I let the dog out into the garden and took a few shots of him. As you can see I need to practice more as the picture isn't the sharpest of shots, but at least its a start.

Much the same has happened with this picture of the hanging down branch. The background is nicely blurred, though maybe a bit too highlighted but the foreground leaves just don't have the sharpness I wanted.

And just a couple of other shots I took whilst I had the camera out...

Top of daughters swing-ball

Corky our dog and Garfield one of our cats saying hello, they have become very good friends.