Cats in the night

In the middle of the night, a mountain lion moved stealthily through our forest.

He was moving briskly and his image blurred.

I think that he/she is a different lion from the one who recently walked up and down a nearby gully for more than a week, probably circling a carcass that he/she was eating. Last night's lion had a different type of radio/GPS collar than the previous lion. I think that both of these lions were females because they left no scrapes. Males tend to scrape and urinate all along their routes to mark their territory.

In the darkness of night, it's primarily our cats who are active, yet this bobcat most definitely did not want to meet the mountain lion. A lion will kill and eat a bobcat.

In the sunlight of daytime, I've been enjoying the fluttering of butterflies among the brightly colored wildflowers. What a contrast from the mountain lion and bobcat photos.

Locoweed (Oxytropis lambertti) seems to attract butterflies more than any other flower.

Locoweed is dominating our meadow presently, and the Duo love sprinting through it.

Since K's toe amputation, R always wins the races. But, they both have fun!

R is at the tiptop of his physical prime. Watching him glide and leap through the meadows and forest is like watching a ballet.

It has stormed almost every evening for a week. K's fur glowed in ray of sunshine with storm clouds behind her.

After posing, she beseeched me to give her some treats.

Time to head home before another big thunder storm at the end of a summer day.