I can’t believe that Danï and Zoë have been with us for five years. We adopted them from The Runaways Animal Rescue in Pascoe County, Florida, just north of Tampa. The Runaways has become a sophisticated operation these days, but right before the Rescue moved to its current location, the founder ran the operation out of her home, and that’s where we drove to back in 2020 to pick up little Danï and Zoë.

My wife had read about them in an article on Love Meow, their two additional siblings, and their mom. I suggested my wife send an email to the Rescue inquiring about adopting them both, never thinking we’d be able to. After all this article was out on Apple News+, and I was expecting the article would draw a lot of attention and inquiries, and we’d come up short. Never did I expect we’d adopt those two, but we did. So we drove over, picked them up, and then nestled them in the back seat where they slept all the way back to Orlando.

Since that time we picked up their mom Joan and one more rescued kitten, Nicholas. The clowder has been a sweet group ever since.

Believe me when I say that the two little girls are feline elves, full of sweet mischief and energy and love.

Camera

I pulled out my EM1.2 and attached the 1.8/75mm for these photos. I hadn’t touched the EM1.2 in so long that all the batteries were discharged, so I had to charge one of them up before I could use the camera. I love using the 75mm because of its long reach and the atmospheric photos it helps produce. And the shutter on the EM1.2 is one of the quietest, if not the quietest, I’ve ever heard. As far as I’m concerned the EM1.2 is the penultimate Olympus digital camera. I know more recent models have been released (this camera was announced in 2016), but for me the EM1.2 is imbued with a magical quality all its own. I really need to use this camera more than I currently do.