Winter pics: Tigerlily

I love Facebook. You get to "find" all your friends (or they find you) from years past, people who now are scattered all over the country with new families, careers, and all sorts of stories to catch up on.

For me, that's included some former colleagues. a couple former boyfriends, some classmates from elementary school -- and, most recently, my best girlfriend from high school, Cheri.

She sent me this photo of Tigerlily, her cat, to post on the blog:

This is a wonderful chance to tell you about my little girl. She found me by way of abandonment, left in a tree on a limb too high for one so little to climb. A friend from work did the retriving and tried to give her to me, but my heart was still aching from the death of my beloved cat, Icky. ...

The friend brought her to work shortly after finding her and the moment I saw her I called out the name and that was to be another one of my adopted friends, Tigerlily. Yes, she is a blessing. In this picture, a couple years later, you can tell that Tigerlily knows what she is to me.