Gary,

What a beautiful kitty! You did a great job with those portraits. If I were to pick a favorite, it would be the 2nd one although they're all wonderful. However, I love the "smile" on the little happy face of this one. He sure is one sweet kitty.

My 2 cats, Molly and Jeremy have a little game they play each night to see who gets to sleep closest to me - Molly is usually the winner. They don't always sleep in the bed, sometimes the one who "wins" will sleep in the cat bed right at the door to keep guard - making sure the other one doesn't enter the room. I've tried to intervene and show them they are both welcome on the bed, but you don't "train" cats! However, Molly has this ritual she does every morning at 5:15 a.m. (I get up about 5:30). She comes up to my face, nudges it, gives me a lick, turns around for me to pet her. I pet her, she comes back, gives me another lick - and it begins all over again. Now this sometimes goes on for quite a while. It's like a snooze alarm - you just keep doing it until you can't stand it anymore, and you get up and get breakfast!

I hope you get some shots of your other cats - and post them sometime.

Thanks for the pictures - I really enjoyed seeing Ikster.

Liz