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Friends at the End
Fawn and Kublai curled up on my bed. In early 1996, just about 18 years ago this month, it became clear that Kublai wasn’t recovering through strictly medical means from the mystery illness that had...
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From the Archives: The Old Man in the Garden, 2006
“my old man”, Stanley, dozing in my garden while I work. My “old man”, Stanley, at the age of about 24, enjoying the warm bricks and sun in the garden on April 30, 2006. Spending more and more time in...
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From the Archives, for Memorial Day
“Stanley With Flag” on the 4th of July, 2006. Of course, on Memorial Day, I remember my father who was a veteran of WWII, and all my male relatives from my parents’ generation, all of whom served in...
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Vintage Photo: Stanley With Apple, 1990
Stanley With Apple. Sweet Stanley dozing in the evening sun just a month or so after I moved in here in 1990. I turned to see just an interesting composition: all of Stanley’s white from his chin to...
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Stanley With Apple, the Sketch
Stanley With Apple, pastel, 5″ x 7″ © B.E. Kazmarski So because I had long thought today’s vintage photo would make a nice painting I decided to use it for today’s sketch. It’s tiny, 5″ x 7″, and the...
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From the Archives: Independence Day Through the Years
Stanley and I had a nice Independence Day in 2006. Stanley is a little sleepy but we wanted to send you wishes for a nice Independence Day, even if you’re not American! We hope everyone manages to get...
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Featured Artwork Reprise: Stanley With Geraniums, 2013
“Stanley With Geraniums”, ink and watercolor, 9″ x 12″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski “Stanley With Geraniums” was not a daily sketch but was a new piece of artwork I’d created last year in time to use it...
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Rescue Story: Watch Your Window Screens
“Boys at the Window”, 1998, 5″ x 5″colored pencil on coquille board © Bernadette E. Kazmarski I had a near miss with an old screen over the weekend and thought I’d share this experience from years ago;...
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A “Back-to-School” Garden Flag
“Stanley With Apple” for back to school! Last August when my felines and me watched the neighbor kids running for their bus in the morning on the first days of school I remembered this sketch of...
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From the Archives: Sunny Autumn Mornings and Rainy Day Kitchens
Moses and Stanley, on the deck in the morning. It seems September is for memories…when the sunlight in the morning reminds me of these two, just as the green leaves are turning yellow and all the...
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November Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “After Dinner Nap”
“After Dinner Nap”, pastel on Hahnemuhle sanded watercolor paper, 1997 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski “The face that launched a thousand portraits,” my Stanley, the feline mascot of my business, appearing...
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Easing Into the Senior Years
Stanley, “My Old Man”, in August 2006, at age 24. In September 1987 I took in an emaciated little scrap of gray tabby fur. The kitten was so weak it couldn’t sit up or even hold its eyes open for very...
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Vintage Photo: Old Friends, 2003
Old Friends, Stanley and Moses. Stanley and Moses share the morning sun at the back door some in winter 2003. They were the oldest at that time; Moses is about 16, Stanley 21. As a frightened formerly...
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From the Archives: Old and Not So Old, December 14, 2005
Stanley and Moses curled together. Stanley and Moses curl up together in fine symmetry like double quotes; Stanley was 24, Moses was 19, and the two had always been friends but were inseparable for...
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Featured Artwork: Winter Cats
“Afternoon Nap”, pastel on hand-finished paper, 7.5″ x 7.5″, 2004 © B.E. Kazmarski A Portrait of an Old Cat: Afternoon Nap ~ An old cat, a gentleman, he has found a quiet spot, upstairs in the...
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Vintage Photo: Dinnertime for Nine, 1994
My household of nine cats enjoying dinner. My entire household of nine resident cats—and one is just out of range of this photo but you’ll see her below—enjoying dinner on the kitchen floor in February...
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Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories
A delicate fern frond reaches for the sun from last year’s dried stems. Every year the winter opens up to a few days of warm intoxicating sun and mud in January or February, and I’ve run outside to...
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A Card Full of Memories
Memorial card for Stanley. A few days before Stanley gave up his battle, I was trying to organize the kitchen sink, pushing around prescription bottles, small cans of cat food and jars of baby food,...
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From the Archives: The Old Man in the Garden, 2006
“my old man”, Stanley, dozing in my garden while I work. My “old man”, Stanley, at the age of about 24, enjoying the warm bricks and sun in the garden on April 30, 2006. Spending more and more time in...
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Stanley With Apple, the Sketch, 2012
Stanley With Apple, pastel, 5″ x 7″ © B.E. Kazmarski NOTE: This was written in 2012. So because I had long thought today’s vintage photo would make a nice painting I decided to use it for today’s...
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