What a beautiful room! I don't know how you can bear to consider moving.

It wasn't an easy decision - we have loved living here for the last 11 years & will definitely miss it, but we're convinced it's the right decision for us at this stage of our lives...

I think it's trying to tell you something.

A very beautiful room. Fantastic shot with great depth.

I do love cats is it looking to go out or just having a rest

Hard to tell - sometimes she sits by the door because she wants to go out & sometimes she just wants to look out...

Wonderful capture! This is a very beautiful scene

your home is beautiful!

I like your walls and ceiling. red wood?

What a beautiful home! I love it! My cat just like to look out the doors and windows, all the more so if it's open and screened, she likes the smells.

A nice photo and I love your floors!!

Just the right sort of house for cats. :)

Lovely view with that car :)

I've been delayed on so many fronts this week, that my plans to come here for a long visit were curtailed twice. (Along with a few others, all on my "A" list, as you are.) I'll start this afternoon and then come back in the morning. In addition to seeing all your uploads, I sat, earlier today, with your 'thumbnails', just looking over several pages of your work. I needed to do it, because I've not yet been able to capsulize what you do that hits me so deeply. Not that I 'need' to put it into words, but it's part of what I love to do; and you're so easeful and erudite with words yourself, I really want to try. You spoke of saturation in one of my last images---totally right, of course, the image was saturated by design---and you were very kind about it, for which I was grateful. (I questioned it several times before posting.) I assume you saturate, or else do things in your camera to achieve these deeply glow-from-within images. But, as you said about me, your pre and postwork is natural and organic when you do it. But from deep down. I don't see your work as saturated or even 'postworked'---I see it as photographing inner light, inner essences, inner presences, 'inner', period. You get the life inside the life. I mean this is an interior---a beautiful one in its own right, btw---but however beautiful it is, you coaxed essences out of it: not only what's glowing inside the walls and carpeting, etc, but what glows inside of 'you' each time you walk here. It's an inner shot, an "interior" shot, from the center of the heart not just from the center of the room. That kind of inner. The carpet is this most luscious opulent saturated purple, with tinges of blue in it. It may well be that color, but in the whole balance of the work, it just sings out with a passion and intensity as much from 'inside' it as from outside. It's gorgeous. Its color is a statement all by itself. And the glow around the door and ceiling (above the door) also glows from inside. I mean, walls can actually do that---reflective surfaces shining light on walls, the room's lighting, etc---but you have a lot to do with it, because when you work your magic on an image, it just looks like this afterwards. It just does: that glow is as much you as the wall. And the deep shadow behind Peanut? The silhouetted flower pot, the shadow around the book shelf (or album shelf---actually, it looks like you have old, precious manuscripts up there!) It has chiaroscuro (literally "clear/obscure"), that wonderful pair of opposites that make a space burst and recede all at once. Then there are the clean yellow reflections on that beautiful floor. The beautiful peach hues in the tiles, and how they commune with the rest of the shot...And then, the 'star' of the shot: Peanut. Mostly in silhouette, but very clear, present. Very catlike, because cats have a way of sitting in the midst of the most intense places and still looking like they're in their own world---and that's how Peanut looks here. It's a beautiful shot, intimate but still monumental at the same time. And the hues and their dialogue are just splendid. Did I get the words out? If I could work magic like this---on an interior, or anything for that matter? Man, I'd be one happy camper. Oh, and I guess I should say I'm sorry you're moving, but you feel it's the right time, so I wish you all the best! You'll be leaving a glow behind. Beautiful work. Really wonderful.

Marvelous capture and looks like the kitty really enjoys the glass door and windows!

How will your cat, Peanut adjust to new surrounds ? - all I know is, it will take some time, but they are very adaptable, but it's never really an easy choice, being a cat-lover myself, I do understand some of their behaviour ... BTW - I truly love polished wooden floors and tiles, any time over carpet - (there won't be carpet in our house - it's also a location climate situation, where we live here in Australia) even going to try my hand at Bamboo flooring for the upstairs living-spaces, very soon ;)) Good luck with your move - BB

I zoomed to look out into your back yard. Beautiful inside and out.