First, a poem, surely the greatest ever written about a cat: “For I will consider my cat Jeoffry,” by Christopher Smart—and thanks to Clare for bringing it to my attention.
And a picture:
It’s also by far the best picture of me I’ve ever seen. I took it two or three months ago, and it was just a lucky shot. I like to listen to music in the dark or rather near dark, and I was doing that, with a candle burning, and having a couple of drinks and fooling around with the low-light settings on my camera (phase one of my plan to get a good picture of the moon). There happens to be a mirror directly across the room from the chair I was sitting in—this was a bedroom before all the children moved out and it became my office or study or whatever—and I had the camera pointing that way, and a candle burning, and Meme was wandering around on my desk as she often does. It wasn’t till I looked at the pictures on the computer a few days later that I discovered I had captured her and her shadow so nicely.
I think the bigger version (click on the one above) is a bit clearer. This is a heavily cropped version of the original—what you see here is what was reflected in the mirror, and the mirror itself occupies only a third or so of the original image.
Light On Dark Water 
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