Our Secret Blog and New Friday Cat Photo Quotes
Wow, can you believe we just celebrated two years of Friday Photo Quotes, our private newsletter? It began as a secret experiment, a creative outlet for my art work, expressing thoughts and themes not posted here. There was no comment box and no way to share on social media until recently. It ended up becoming a blog in its own right but a secret one. The subscriber list grew fast but I now feel badly that tons of the early work was seen by only a handful. Looking back, it’s kind of crazy and selfish not to share, so this what we’re going to do:
Friday Photo Quotes+ will now be posted here at Cat Wisdom 101. There will be new ones and we’ll dig into the archives to pull out our favorites. Going through the archive I found ones stuck in edit mode and for whatever reason were never published. Okay, maybe it’s not like finding a missing Piscaso but to me it felt like finding buried treasure!
If you were one of the early subscribers, huge grateful purrs of thanks for supporting the effort. It was lonely and weird being online but not being able to tweet or Pin as we love doing so all the private notes and emails were hugely appreciated. Thank-you, it kept me going when I often thought of quitting.
Our very first Photo Quote featured Domino. Nothing earth shattering but hey, all creative journeys have to start somewhere. There were only quotes in the beginning but one thing lead to another and they expanded into longer blog posts on feline wisdom, life lessons and philsophy.
Look how young Odin looked!
Ha, some things never change!
This one of Merlin from two years ago tugs hard at my heartstrings. It’s shocking to see the drastic change in his weight lossrom kidney disease. It makes it all the more meaningful to
Do you think we need a new name for Friday Photo Quotes? If so, please suggest one.
33 Comments
Shannon Luckman
To je to co je hodnotny obsah! 🙂
Nerissa's Life
So the secret is out of the bag? Hmmm… Or is that the cat? Anywho… I’m gonna take your advice to heart. Gonna purr more and hiss less, for sure.
Purrs,
Nissy
Cynthia Southern
I love the cat photo quotes you found. They are delightful and definitely a treasure!
Deb Barnes - Zee and Zoey
Always love your photos – the quotes make them all the more special!
The Swiss Cats
We’re glad you share it ! Your photo quotes are great. We began Monday quotes two weeks ago, but Mum is too lazy to find them herself : she share other people’s quotes ! Purrs
Kitties Blue
We are new to Friday Photo Quotes and think it is a great name. We have selected you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. You can pick it up on our Friday post at The Cat on My Head. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, I’ve left a comment at your blog.
maggie
What lovely work!
And of course, anything with a cat on it is off to a good start in my book.
It’s hard to look at our beloveds and see the changes. My camera always saw the truth that I didn’t want to acknowledge during Tommie’s last month. Photographs of my younger healthy boy are an enormous blessing now.
Feline Philosophers, Friday Feline Philosophy. Cat Wisdom 102!
xxoo
Layla Morgan Wilde
So true. The camera doesn’t lie and it’s a gift to have the early pics. I wish I could do Cat Wisdom 102 or 201 or 360 but darn Google searches and SEO.
Flynn
Lovely pictures and quotes.
Brian Frum
Those are good! How about Words of Wisdom?
Layla Morgan Wilde
That’s good for quotes but how can we include the photos?
Skeeter and Izzy
We loved getting our special quote but we will be just as glad to see them here.
Thank you for sharing the beauty that is Cat.
luvs
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo. >^..^<
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks for being a super fan from day one!
Annabelle
These are all so beautiful, but the one with Merlin is pure magic.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, it’s easy with a magic cat.
Heather
Glad to see some of these again. I would buy the one of Odin about purring more and hissing less if it ever showed up in an Esty shop. 🙂
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks so much for being a regular reader! I’ve had no time to update the Etsy shop but will see what I can do.
Crepes
Oh what great photos!! I like that last one especially. – Crepes.
da tabbies o trout towne
doodz & N…we enjoyed R feline fryday foto quotes…manee thanx for sharin N we look forward ta see in em heer ♥♥ we all ways finded sum feline fryday wisdom… in each…thanx guys….. !!!
heerz two a midshipman fish & marlin kinda week oh end ♥♥♥
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks for being a regular reader and supporter :-0
Kathryn
What a super fantastic idea to bring this online.
Cats are the very best people in the whole world.
The big cats, too.
I will so enjoy this, Layla! Thanks for all you do!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, I hope so 🙂
Kathryn
🙂
Beverly
I enjoyed the Friday Photo Quote–I’m glad that it’s not going away.
easy rider
be as original as a cat is a super quote…not even the copy cats can copy a cat, they are always original :o)
The Island Cats
These are some great quotes and we’re glad you’ll be sharing them here.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, we’ll see how it goes.
Bev Green
What gorgeous images and quotes..i think we all look at old images and feel that pang for what was and what we know will be ..but we have now and that is all that matters..what a great idea to have these quotes and images…loves Fozziemum xx
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks Bev and yeah there is a certain nostalgia.
Ellen Pilch
I think Friday Quotes is Purrfect.
Summer
Wow, that really was a secret – because I didn’t know about it! And we kitties are supposed to know everything!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Ha, but there was a sign-up form here for a regular “newsletter”.