Sunday, November 16, 2025

Winter is Here (Sort of) - Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Caspurr

Greetings, Effurryone!


We had almost given up hope, but the Skywater finally arrived. It started last Fursday, with a short, heavy downpour. On Furriday, there was some more, especially in the evening - but then, on Caturday, the Windows of Heaven opened with a vengeance, the tempurratures plummeted, Mummy brought out the warm, flannel bedlinen - and even turned on the central heating. The sudden, heavy rains caused flooding, which led to power cuts (although in Our Street, there was only one, lasting for about five minutes. But Step-Grandma, who lives just a couple of streets away, says it was on and off all evening). It's still rather cloudy and overcast, but the Sun breaks through effurry now and again, and the forecast for the rest of the week is for plenty of sunshine, as well as steadily climbing tempurratures, reaching the upper 20's Celsius.

The downpour last Fursday occurred while Mummy was on her way with her caterwauling pals to take part in the furrst of four purrformances of Die Fledermaus, which is an opurretta by Mr. Johann Strauss Junior. An opuretta is kind of like a mewsical - that's what they called them in the 19th century. Mummy will no doubt write about it in her own bloggie, as well as continuing the story of her adventures in Greece, although she probably won't have time for any of that until after the final purrformance of Die Fledermaus, next weekend. Meanwhile, as a preview, here is an artified selfie of her in her costume (using BeFunky's Impressionist filter - with a frame from LunaPic).





























And meowing of artified selfies, it is time for the weekend blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Divinely Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.  This week, I, Sir Caspurr the Courageous, the Caspicatious, Furrst of My Name, the Snuggle Bug, Commander-in-Chief of the Impurrial Forces, King of the Tigger-Tabbies, will be repurresenting the J-Cats on the blog hops, with this mewtiful picture of Me doing the Most Obvious and Sensible Thing to do on a Cold, Rainy Evening - Snoozing!












We made three different artifications, as is Our Wont - all of them using LunaPic. Furrst of all, We tried a combination of Candy and Watercolour, at 26% and 14% respectively:











No. #2 used a blend of Courtisane at 48% and Redblush (32%):












Finally, for no. #3, We used Fairy (45%), with an overlay of Gauguin3 (25%):












Which one do you like best? Let Us know in the Comments section below.


Next, We shall put up the blog hop badges. Here they are:


        


And now, it is time to start blog hopping.  COD-willing, We will be back here next week - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.




7 comments:

Memories of Eric and Flynn said...

The first is my favourite, and I love the artified picture of your Mommy in her costume.
We have had lots of rain and flooding here as well. The weather has been unseasonably mild at around 12C but is forecast to drop next week to 6 by day and -2 at night. Better keep the wood burner going!

Eastside Cats said...

#2 is my fav.
A napping cat makes humans very happy!
Rain, rain, go away.

Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty said...

Great pic of your mum in costume!

The first artsy version of you is our fave.

Lynn and Precious said...

Caspurr, how handsome you are in all the art and in real furry life. We so enjoyed seeing how Mum will look in her costume for the big purrformance. These are great selfies. Nice you got some wet stuff. Our temps are headed to cold and gonna stay there too soon.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful costume!

da tabbies o trout towne said...

dood....both ewe N mummy look grate in yur art peacez ☺☺♥♥ eye due like art peace three coz ya kinda look like de tiger !!! =^..^= glad ewe getted sum waterz, tho when it leedz ta floodz thatz knot good....hope mummy N joyz de caturr wallin N therz a grate tern out ta see de show !! bee safe N happee N healtheez !! ☺☺♥♥

Leah said...

Wow, Caspurr! That is a stunning picture of your Mummy in her costume! You are looking good today too, Caspurr, with your stripeyness showing beautifully! I think that first artification of your picture is my favorite. It's turned chilly here too but we're not getting the much-needed rain.