Admiring the View with Queen Trixie: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Greetings, Effurrybody!

Queen Trixie here - as the J-Cats' Official Repurrysentative to this weekend's blog hops: the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

I am sorry to have to report that, after almost a week of lovely, spring-like weather, today it is once again cold and rainy! At least, it was earlier this morning. The sun has now peeped out from behind the clouds, but more rain is expected later in the day and through the night, as well as tomorrow. Ah, well - that's spring for you. At least the almond trees are in blossom and everything is green on the hill across the road and down in the valley below the living-room window. 

 

So I decided this picture was the purrfect choice for today's Sunday Selfie. All that was left to do was to artify it, which I did with the help of LunaPic.

My furrst attempt used the Smoke Effect at 55%, with an overlay of Surreal at 90%:

I look quite sultry, don't I? That's one of the reasons I like the Smoke filter.

The next artification uses Dark, at 35%, overlaid again with Surreal, this time at only at 85%:

Last, but not least, the Scribble effect at 70% was brightened up by the brilliant, artsy-fartsy colours of Candy at 40%:

I didn't think about it at the time, but of course, the cushion with its colourful Flutterby  and Flower also adds to the feeling of Spring.

Mummy had really hot weather for her field-trip last week. She started writing about it on her own bloggie the furry next day, but as She wanted to include the concert the week before, and various other things, and as Things Happened even as She was writing (like Mew-nicipal elections on Tuesday and another terrorist attack on Thursday in which two people were murdered), it all took much longer than planned and so it isn't quite ready yet. She hopes to finish it tomorrow.
She had better - because She is going to be furry busy later this week, with a lecture concert and a doctor's appointment and an Opurra - and next week, She has yet another field-trip! There is going to be a lot to write about.

Here now are the blog hop badges:

        

We almost fur-got! This Fursday, March 7th, is My Brofur Caspurr's 11th birthday! So We shall have a celebration, up in the Enchanted Forest, this coming Saturday at 5 pm, Israel time, to which you are all invited. You know how to get there. If you are new, and/or have neffur before been to one of Our Pawties in the Enchanted Forest, give Us a meow and We will send the coordinates directly to your Transportation Device.

Now it is time for LUNCH - after which, We start blog hopping. See you all again next week.

Till then - be well. Be safe. We love you all.