Cats do seem able to achieve a Zen-like calm when sitting and practicing their version of awareness meditation.
I have always liked this photo of our cat Nina apparently meditating, and I decided to use a pencil effect to enhance the air of serenity.
Posted in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge, with the theme ‘serene’ and the invitation to share a visual moment of blissful quiet. For other responses to this theme, see here
Posted by Carol
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December 3, 2017 at 1:16 am
I’ve always suspected that the art of meditation is best learnt from cats. Lovely image of Nina! 🙂
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December 3, 2017 at 3:40 am
I absolutely agree that cats are the best teachers – and in other respects too 🙂
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December 2, 2017 at 1:13 am
Ohmmm, Shanti! 😉
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December 2, 2017 at 3:58 am
🙂
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December 1, 2017 at 9:38 am
Gorgeous! It has a wintry Christmas feel to it. Perfect for over here on Dec 1st! I wonder if I have that editing option…. (I suspect not!)
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December 2, 2017 at 3:47 am
Thanks Sandra. Yesterday we sweltered and then had a storm that was quite tropical in its intensity. Hard to imagine winter elsewhere and hard to believe it is December already. I use the free-to-download PhotoScape for editing. I used the pencil sketching option for this photo under the category “pictorialization”.
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December 2, 2017 at 10:06 am
Thank you, Carol; downloading it now 🙂
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December 3, 2017 at 3:37 am
Hope you enjoy using it!
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December 1, 2017 at 8:28 am
What clever editing. I’m in awe. The cat’s rather nice too!
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December 2, 2017 at 3:41 am
Thanks so much Margaret. Yes, the cat is very nice! Btw, I am still pretty much “virtually housebound” as our internet service has still not been reconnected. Yesterday we got a diagnosis – it has been connected to a crossed line, so perhaps now they will know how to fix it! When that happens I can start visiting again (among all the other things that an Internet connection enables one to do).
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December 2, 2017 at 9:19 am
We have become horribly dependent, haven’t we? All the same, so long as you’re not crossing wires with a certain Donald Trump, all should be well in the end.
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December 3, 2017 at 3:37 am
🙂
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December 1, 2017 at 5:47 am
She is a beauteous cat and the pencil effect enhances her serenity magnificently 🐈
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December 2, 2017 at 3:37 am
Indeed she is a beauteous cat. She is the first that we hand reared – after she was found cold and alone on a pathway when she was only a few days old.
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December 2, 2017 at 3:42 am
Then she has beauteous human’s too 🙂
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December 2, 2017 at 3:59 am
🙂
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December 1, 2017 at 4:29 am
The pencil effect is quite nice.
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December 2, 2017 at 3:29 am
Thanks Sandy.
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December 2, 2017 at 4:16 am
Sure!
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December 1, 2017 at 4:24 am
You had me fooled – I felt sure you had revealed yourself as an artist on the quiet. This looks lovely!
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December 2, 2017 at 3:28 am
Thanks Anne. The photo editing tools are more talented than I am 🙂
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