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it i cried again but this time with happiness the heron has found an owner worthy of it and together they will go on many more exciting adventures adventures in glacier bay red pointer marks approximate location of photos 30 comments posted in kayaking life nature travel uncategorized tagged alaska cross sound esther island feathercraft glacier bay gustavus icy strait inian island kayaking lisianski strait new york kayak company oklahoma pier 40 pt adolphus red heron the cat that found me posted on august 18 2018 by johna till johnson 44 comments mully and spider plants by johna till johnson photos by johna till johnson and vladimir brezina you don t go out and get a cat vlad would say the cat will find you he d had three cats that he loved dearly sergei april and clara they were memories of happier times when he d lived in the first throes of romance with his then wife in a new york apartment i don t think i ever knew how sergei found him but april and clara were abandoned kittens that his wife discovered crying in the street and which adopted her on the spot that marriage ended and one by one the cats grew old and died he buried each of them in central park which of course is highly illegal he told the story hilariously there i was in a black leather jacket and skullcap carrying a shovel and a dead cat in a duffel bag its feet were sticking out already stiff with rigor mortis it was the middle of the night i don t know why the cops never stopped me but it was laughter tinged with sadness as the last vestiges of his once happy existence ended and he remained alone in the apartment that had once been vibrant with life not coincidentally that was when he began to take ever longer kayak excursions and ultimately met me so it was natural that we discussed getting a cat together i d had cats for most of my life despite being allergic and we both thought a cat would be the perfect addition to our household just one problem vlad s adamant stance that you don t get a cat the cat gets you and unsurprisingly given the amount of time we spent on the water no cat managed to find us after vlad died i sometimes thought about getting a cat but i live in a high floor in an apartment building with a doorman how was a cat going to find me online as it turned out just like so many things in this world despite vlad s death i ve stayed engaged in the facebook cancer forums that were so helpful to us while he was alive in no small part because people dealing with cancer are some of the funniest most honest and best people around cancer has a way of stripping the superficial and extraneous out of people s souls if it doesn t destroy you it leaves you with a greater appreciation of the world s beauty and a much lower tolerance for daily b s one of my forum friends had been keeping us all entertained with her online saga about a feral black cat that appeared on her deck one day this spring she promptly named him mully after a nearby brewpub mully s brewery over time mully went from showing up to be fed to sleeping in a crate that she put out for him he allowed himself to be petted gingerly at first then with full enthusiasm and a throaty purr in short he adopted her mully on bed just one problem the family already had five dogs and another cat and my friend s husband not unreasonably put his foot down when it came to a seventh animal mully could be a porch cat nothing more my friend started looking for a permanent home for him with no luck for several weeks he continued living on the porch then one day he disappeared mully reappeared days later sick and bleeding he had puncture wounds in three of his paws and was running a fever he d come back to the only place of safety and care that he d ever known begging for help the puncture wounds we found out later were from some kind of attack whatever creature had gone after him mully had fought back fiercely my friend took him to the vet where they treated his wounds and infection dewormed him and vaccinated him when he came home she put him in the guest room against her husband s wishes porch cat had become guest room cat but the situation couldn t last mully had to go the husband was adamant my friend posted again on facebook asking for any takers for an indoor only cat she explained that he d already exhausted several of his nine lives and needed to spend the rest of them indoors indoor only i could do that i thought as i read her post the only problem how to go get him she lived 200 miles away in southern maryland moreover i d be out of town for several weeks and not able to pick him up we made tentative plans for me to drive down on my first free saturday then i ended up unexpectedly spending that weekend in los angeles and we missed the date the husband wouldn t budge my friend couldn t keep mully any longer he had to be out of the house that week no more extensions she made plans to send him to a foster home unless she wrote you could pick him up friday i couldn t but by this time neither of us were willing to give up she came up with a plan she d bring the cat up to her daughter s on friday and i d pick him up from there on saturday that s how i found myself on a sunny summer morning driving down the familiar stretch of i 95 once more this time in pursuit of the cat that found me i realize i d fallen in love with him long before that day how is our mully i d written earlier that spring and i think i love this cat another time not only was he adorable but his feistiness and spunk were undeniable and with everything that he d survived his sunny and loving disposition was still intact when i met him for the first time he crawled into my lap and began to purr nestling his face into my arm vlad was right the cat finds you sergei rip photo by vladimir brezina 44 comments posted in life nature new york city tagged cat high rise mully s brewery new york city mosque at sunset manhattan posted on august 15 2018 by johna till johnson 13 comments mosque at sunset by johna till johnson sometimes beauty just hits you like a punch in the stomach i was running late for dinner when i saw sunset tinged clouds behind the neighborhood mosque i just had to stop and take the picture on fridays the haunting tones of the jumu ah call to prayer at 1 pm reminds me the week is almost over this time it was a reminder that the day was almost over another summer day drawing to a close 13 comments posted in architecture new york city photography society tagged jumu ah manhattan mosque new uork sunset an unexpected sunday in los angeles posted on august 12 2018 by johna till johnson 16 comments evening shoes 1927 by edward steichen by johna till johnson photos by johna till johnson and daniel kalman and assorted artists i never intended to be at the getty center in los angeles on a sunny sunday in july but as luck would have it i was in town for a business trip and i got a text from my friend dan his mother had just died not unexpectedly i postponed my flight home rented a car and headed for dan s mother s house people grieve differently dan is a scientist with the soul of an artist and throughout his life art museums and galleries have been his places of worship he and vlad shared many happy hours soaking in art all over the world dan had happy memories of visiting the great art galleries in london with vlad who initially studied art history at cambridge before changing his career to focus on science baroness de meyer in a hat by reboux 1929 by baron adolf de meyer so when dan suggested a trip to the getty that same weekend i was enthusiastic about accompanying him his sons his brother in law and his eight year old niece my experience of museums had been limited to europe and european inflected cities like new york and boston so i guess subconsciously i was expecting a tall dark imposing building the getty is imposing all right but in a classic california way cacti at the getty by johna till johnson designed by richard meier the getty looks exactly like the mental image many of us have of heaven white columns lush green foliage flowers fountains mountains and sea it s a campus of beautifully designed buildings interspersed with gorgeous landscapes perched on the top of a hill with a breathtaking view of los angeles the pacific and catalina island it s so sprawling that the buildings are interconnected by a cable pulled tram which we eschewed in favor of a walk up the hill trees at the getty by johna till johnson dan like vlad loves photography so we went to the current photography exhibition icons of style none of us were really that into fashion unless it s made by kokotat or sold at rei but vlad had introduced me to edward steichen many years ago and steichen s photographs were among those featured model on ship about 1946 by bill brandt in fact steichen s 1927 photograph evening shoes was one of the first we saw i leaned in closer to study the angles and edges of the shadows look at that said the woman next to me i glanced over she was older than i bejeweled and made up and her voice had a familiar intonation sure enough she mentioned she was from new york we both admired the photo out loud pointing out the features we liked best and those are two different shoes she commented triumphantly indeed they were and i d missed it take a closer look at the photo up top i wasn t the only one later on i found out that a friend who had studied photography and was very familiar with the photo had also missed the fact that the shoes were from different pairs kelly stewart new york 2011 by hiro dan and i wandered through the rest of the exhibit both agreeing that the chinese born photographer hiro had an unusually striking eye then we rejoined dan s family outside and meandered through the grounds enjoying the sunshine gardens and architecture on that unexpected sunday we reminded ourselves of something important art like nature heals detail fountain at the getty by daniel kalman note in the photos of photos i ve done my best to edit out extraneous reflections including that of the photographer but if you look carefully you can see them 16 comments posted in architecture art culture photography society tagged edward steichen getty center hiro kokotat los angeles photography rei richard meier copyright wind against current by vladimir brezina and johna till johnson is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivs 3 0 unported license search search for authors vladimir brezina rip kayaked the waters around new york for more than 15 years in his red feathercraft folding kayak he was originally from the former czechoslovakia and lived in the u k and california before settling down in new york he was a neuroscientist at the mount sinai school of medicine in new york city he died in 2016 johna till johnson is a kayaker and technology researcher at nemertes research she s an erstwhile engineer particle physicist and science fiction writer she was born in california and has lived in italy norway hawaii and a few other places she currently resides in new york city our links johna s technology research vlad s photos vlad s scientific research recent posts a meditation on gratitude november 26 2025 the first leg june 6 2023 looks like they made it june 5 2023 more scenes from the northcountry may 30 2023 r2ak scenes from the northern lands may 29 2023 halfway there may 29 2023 and they re off may 28 2023 team trimoron heads west may 26 2023 sheltering at sea part 3 staten island to atlantic city june 28 2021 sheltering at sea part 2 escape from new york june 14 2021 sheltering at sea part 1 taking the leap june 7 2021 night on hart island may 30 2021 happy birthday vlad june 1 2020 solo trip to the yellow submarine may 26 2020 sail and sky composition may 20 2020 recent comments johna till johnson on where we like to land on sandy canada to key west p on a bizarre boating eunice miller on a meditation on gratitude harry on a meditation on gratitude johna 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