Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 21, 2022

Sunday Funday

Unfortunately, we were overcast, and if we hadn’t been, the full moon would have made them difficult to see. Ah, well, “Just wait till next year!” (Also the motto of many sports teams.)

Watercolor night skyyyyyyyyyyy…!

In other news, Burt has a popsicle. Are there more, Burt? The public needs to know!

This is poster worthy, for sure! I so love seeing Mr O’possum again, and that spectacular night sky!

Beautiful, but a harbinger of Doom.

OT

Just beautiful indeed!

A fitting and beautiful tribute to our Tommy!

The meteors aren’t that numerous here. When Mom had a beach house, we’d sprawl out on the walkway and watch the meteors scoot across the sky, but I don’t recall more than a few at a time. Beatrix and Trevor together always makes my heart mushy.

The opossum family is adorable.♥

Gorgeous!!!!!

Oh, My Cat! How beautiful! And Georgia even got the waning crescent moon in the sky perfect for the date. Purrr…fect! What attention to detail.

And it isn’t broken. It’s just not what you think it is.

Good job Elvis is missing it. I’m not sure he likes most of the locals.

Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and gay

They all look out on a summer’s day

With eyes that know the flash’s beauty there

Shadows on the hills

Under the tree with funny skills

Catch the breeze and get the chills

In colors of the lovely painted land

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

“It’s just some meteors we see”

And how you tried to give them glee

And they would listen, they did know how

Perseids they know and enjoy now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flashes that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds in violet haze

Reflect in each one’s to catch the clue

Colors changing hue

Rainbows blur am I a dope?

Or just lookin’ thru a kaleidoscope?

Or soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand?

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

That’s not evil but just beauty

And how they fried by getting free

They would listen, they did know how

Perseids they’ll just adore them now

For they could just love you

And still their love was true

And when this hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night

You looked for fun, as we all often do

But I could’ve told you dear ones

I wish this world was meant for

One as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night

Each one come together now

Under the tree or on the bough

With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget

All the strangers that you’ve met

Wild animals meet there very late

With relations being intricate

United and frolicking on the meadows, aww!

Now I think I know

What you tried to say to me

It’s just some meteors we see

And now enjoy the mere beauty

Yes, they would listen, they are listening still

Now let’s drink to our fill..

Don McLean/ Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

Not just beautiful, but spectacular, just like the beautifully spectacular colouring work here. Me give big thumbs up and big applause with me bear hands.

Absolutely breathtaking!

Oh Georgia, you’ve outdone yourself! Truly fabulous. We’ve been cloudy so it is lovely to see such a beautiful watercolor version.

I remember being at Choir Music Camp in rural IL when in grade school. It was two weeks in summer, and one night we camped out on a tarp in a field after picking raspberries and making ice cream. That night we watched a meteor shower. It was glorious.

Absolutely gorgeous! And the only way I see them since for every single meteorological event we have, the sky is always overcast here and I never, ever see them anymore. And while I live in Michigan, at our previous house which is also where I grew up in SE Michigan, as a child, I could see the Northern Lights. Too much light pollution for that now as well. Guess we didn’t move far enough north.

Reminds me of star gazing in places like the Glades, Cedar Key and the Appalachians. As a child I still remember those stars at Blowing Rock back in the early ’70s. Light Pollution has made stargazing more challenging nowadays, especially here in FL. Here is an idea my daughter and I have for when she graduates from FSU next spring, before she goes off to grad school (hoping she chooses USF just down the road but likely staying in Tallahassee) …… It could be a fun week or so!

https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/4-of-the-best-night-sky-parks-in-appalachia/

I wish I could see this strip in a larger format, especially the last panel.

Georgia, if you’re reading comments today, save this one for the Rueben awards. It is one of your best works of art!

That last panel, wow. So beautiful.

I don’t remember seeing the opossum family before. I wish we could see the meteor showers but too many lights.

Beautiful artwork in the last panel, and I also like the fourth with Burt eating a popsicle and Trevor holding Beatrix. I have lately been reading the Mothman Prophecies, and with this week’s supernatural storyline panel one immediately made me leap to a flying saucer storyline. But Georgia would never! Right?

This is one of your best strips ever, Georgia!

Looks like our newcasters will have to experience this from the window.

Re: animal politics. Our raccoons and possums get along pretty well for the most part, side by side but ignoring one another. But this year we have a baby possum and a baby raccoon who have become friends and trundle along together, walking the top of the fence! They are so cute! I saw momma possum during the “possum bus” phase when she had about a half dozen riding on top and more inside, but as far as I can tell only three babies have made it to the independent stage and stuck around. You can tell possums apart by their tails, ours look nearly alike but their tails are each very distinctive!

I spy… a crow, Homestyle and Thimblefist, all the raccoons and pets and possums, but no mice? The possums hanging upside down while wearing pants completely cracked me up.

I spy two can-wearing critters in the tree! One is a shoutmunk and the other is a squirrel, but I CANnot remember their names.

One “Like” isn’t enough for this one! =SWOOOOOOOOOONNNNN= ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥

Lovely!

Lucky us (the orb), waking up to such a beautiful strip and loving community. Thank you Georgia, and all

And Homestyle and Thimblefist are there, too!

Picture yourself in the grass on a hillside

With wildlife in trees and pets standing by

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

Rainbows in kaleidoscope skies

Perseid showers so fast yet serene

Streaking over your head

Look for the moon as the crescent does rise

And she shines

Georgia’s brilliant sky sublime and

One more nighttime sky divine and

Tommy does report so fine, mon

Ah

- John Lennon / Paul McCartney – Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

Trevor snuggling Beatrix just absolutely melted me.

I so miss the sky in the BWCAW, especially in August with the Perseids. Where we live, twenty years ago, we could still see the stars on a clear night. Not any more.

The last panel has Zazzle mug potential

Dress warmly, find a hillside far from city lights, lie down facing the sky and wait – try not to fall asleep between meteor events. :)

As is this comic!

Thanks Georgia! Another lovely image. The critters have a much better view of the Perseids shower than I EVER get. Good on them!

Where’s KittyKatz today, did I miss her?

Beautiful!!! I have never seen a meteor shower, or the Northern lights, I did see the Green flash when I lived in the Caribbean though, that was special X

I love the ‘possum family!

This is just such a wonderful story today, and the drawings are beautiful – this helps put a little light in my life when needed after the passing of my Fearless!

What is that in front of Burt? Is it a telescope? A camera on a base to steady it for time lapse?

Sad thing is that most of them peak at 2 or 3AM. How about dusk instead?

Living in Virginia, we’re not supposed to see the auroras here. But years ago, I walked into my living room to see a bright green, silent, fluctuating glow through the little windows in the front door and through the closed blinds. It freaked me out so much I was afraid to investigate (I was cold sober, not chemically altered, and it wasn’t Christmas, July 4th, or any holiday). Not that late at night, but none of the neighbors ever mentioned it. Haven’t seen it again. Or maybe the aliens removed my memories…; )

Atlantic Starr: Masterpiece

A happy gathering of friends

The whole world is alright

A shower of shooting stars

Sets the sky alight!

A story paints a picture, of miracles unknown

How can this wonder be? The joy I see!

…….

Silver in a dark blue sky

More precious than all gems,

A painting of a wondrous world

Shared with each and every friend!

A world of pure majesty in this picture!

And now it’s time to say, that night or day

…….

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new

Brimming with such joy and love!

Ooh!

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new!

And it’s a treasure!

…….

Like a real life kaleidoscope, the sky just bursts with light

Unable to contain myself, my joy, it just takes flight!

To share with so many friends, there is no need for strife!

And now I thank you, friends, let this love never end!

…….

The history and politics we all can put aside

Let’s watch the Creator’s magic show

A miracle of light!

Captured in such a picture,

So lovely, beautiful

And now I thank you all

As shooting stars fall!

…….

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new

Brimming with such joy and love!

Ooh!

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new!

And it’s a treasure!

…….

This work of art we’re seeing,

Never let it go

Beauty and joy forever,

And we’ll always know that:

…….

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new

Brimming with such joy and love!

Ooh!

This is a masterpiece, it’s true

The world seems so brand new!

And it’s a treasure!

I’m sure that, if we ever got to see the perseids over here, they’d be beautiful.

Vile racoons are probably hoping it’s some secret weapon they can use in their next war. One which will make them look like the victims while doing damage to their enemies.

I hope Louie is on his way!

Beautiful – but I have 10 felines here who be offended at the word “Pet”!

There’s a caption from Burt in the second panel, yet there he is in the field staring on the very next panel.

OT. google chrome died on my computer, had to go to a new browser, gocomics didn’t recognize me, so I had to do a new account. Same crazee, but now crazeekatlady2 with a new avatar. Can’t see any comments form Saturday though.

The last panel says it all! Thanks Georgia.

Fireworks

Fireflies

On the roof watching summer night skies

All the boys

All the girls

All the time making love with our eyes

Life just goes on for us day after day

Screamin’ by, oh oh oh

Fast as a shooting star

Crusin’ the midnight sky

From Georgia on FB:

I love this one, I hope you do too. <3 It was so much fun to paint and add the shooting stars in Photoshop later.

(The opossum’s name is Prometheus… he’ll be properly introduced one day. We’ve met him once already in the garage of the Big Pink House!)

What are they all doing up so late? Best viewing times are always 2 or 3 a.m.

Perseids are nearly always not visible here in southeast Arizona due to our Monsoon! Almost always seem to have clouds on the best day, if not all of the days of the Perseids. I think I remember once we actually got to see them.

I’ve always wanted to see the Perseid shower as it occurs around my birthday, but every year, it’s cloudy the whole time!

“I saw two shooting stars last nightAnd critters, some inclined to bite.Although I do have T.C.P.I think I’d better let them be.”