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An Old Geezer and his feline friend, Pippu. 🇫🇮 🇺🇦🇬🇱 "There are rocks scattered across every path. If they get in your way, you just have to kick them aside !" -Adam Blade 🚫porn 🚫crypto 🚫DMs 🚫russian nazis (putinistas) 🚫or any other kind of nazis

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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 15h
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol (after a rainy morning) 😺🐾 Have a nice morning/day/afternoon! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside yawningA white and grayish cat sitting outside looking weird
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 16h
Leia fell asleep after changing the channel.
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 18h
Leia helping me. "That show is boring. I'm going to change the channel."
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 19h
The gate of Bishamontang, Emissary Santo, Yamashina District, Kyoto City
Framed by a blazing canopy of Japanese maples (momiji), a steep stone pathway (chokushimichi) rises toward a dark wooden gate, its steps completely buried beneath a thick carpet of scarlet foliage. Slender bamboo handrails flank the stone stairs, leading the eye along a dramatic linear perspective toward the imperial messenger gate at the crest of the slope. Overhead, interlocking branches filter the light, casting a warm crimson glow over the damp stone and moss-covered embankments. The scene evokes an intimate sensory atmosphere: the crisp mountain air of a Kyoto morning, the faint scent of damp moss and aged cedar, the soft crunch of fallen leaves underfoot, and the profound, reverent hush of an ancient temple precinct.
Located at Bishamon-do Temple in the Yamashina District of Kyoto, this approach—known as the chokushimichi (Imperial Messenger Path)—is renowned for its late-autumn sando (shrine approach), where fallen leaves form an iconic momiji no jūtan (maple carpet). Originally founded in 703 AD by the monk Gyōki and re-established at its present site in 1665, Bishamon-dō is a distinguished monozeki temple (traditionally presided over by members of the imperial family or high nobility). The Chokushimon Gate at the top of the stairs was reserved for official imperial envoys, reflecting the sanctuary's esteemed lineage. The seamless integration of stone masonry, timber architecture, and natural forest contours reflects the supreme craft of Japanese zōen (landscape architecture) and monozukuri (artisanal mastery), designed to celebrate the subtle shifts of the seasonal calendar.
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Leia knows it's Monday.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a great Monday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a restful Sunday 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy #Caturday from Leia!
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a peaceful Caturday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pippu watching 'Sealook' 🐾😹🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat watching 'Sealook' from tv
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leia's planning out her day.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a terrific Thursday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Misty path to Dewa Sanzan temples, Japan (Photography by Ah Bee Panda).
Ascending through a dense cathedral of ancient, towering Japanese cedars (sugi), a moss-carpeted stone staircase (ishidan) carves a dark, deliberate path into the veil of a mountain mist. The lower foreground is grounded by deep, ink-like tones of wet slate and weathered bark, where ferns and emerald moss cling to centuries-old roots. Above, a heavy, luminous fog softens the canopy, partially dissolving the distant forest and the silhouetted eaves of hidden shrine architecture into an ethereal, monochromatic haze. The high-contrast interplay between the damp, dark stones below and the pale, misty void above creates an immersive sensory landscape filled with the quiet aroma of damp pine, damp earth, and cool mountain air.
Photographed by Ah Bee Panda, this composition captures the sacred approach (sandō) of Mount Haguro, one of the revered Dewa Sanzan (Three Mountains of Dewa) nestled in Yamagata Prefecture. Comprising 2,446 hand-laid stone steps lined by over five hundred ancient cedars, this trail has served for over a millennium as a pilgrimage route for practitioners of Shugendō—a syncretic tradition combining Shinto nature worship, Esoteric Buddhism, and mountain asceticism. Within Shugendō cosmology, traversing the Dewa Sanzan represents a symbolic journey of spiritual death and rebirth, with Mount Haguro representing the present physical life. The meticulous construction of these stone stairs and the preservation of the sacred grove demonstrate a profound environmental monozukuri (artisanal mastery in sacred design), where human devotion is sculpted into permanent, harmonious dialogue with the living forest.
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leia shrimping to help with the cold.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a wonderful Wednesday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"What am I supposed to do?"
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a tasty Tuna Tuesday! 🐾😸🧡🐟🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #Caturday from Leia!
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a peaceful Caturday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a fantastic Friday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Leia wants something I have.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Japanese old farm house with open hearth.
Sunken into the dark, polished floorboards of a rural interior, an open hearth (irori) anchors a dimly illuminated domestic space. A heavy, dark cast-iron kettle (tetsubin) hangs suspended over the ash pit from a vertical bamboo-and-wood adjustable pothook (jizaikagi), its wooden counterweight caught in the ambient glow. Rough, unbarked wooden logs encircle the pit, their rustic edges resting upon the worn timber floor. Soft shafts of morning sunlight pierce through thin veils of woodsmoke hanging in the rafters, illuminating the warm amber tones of sliding paper screens (shōji) and dark wooden partitions (fusuma) that recede into an adjoining room where a low tea table (chabudai) rests in quiet shadow.

Central to the architectural layout of traditional Japanese farmhouses (minka), the sunken hearth served as both the functional and communal heart of agrarian life. Operating continuously throughout the year, the irori provided warmth, light, and a cooking fire in homes constructed without chimneys. Smoke from the open hearth rose freely into the high, exposed ceiling framework, coating the structural timbers with a natural, protective patina of soot.  The adjustable jizaikagi mechanism, often utilizing a wooden lever as a counterweight and symbolic fire-preventative motif, enabled residents to raise or lower iron kettles and cooking pots directly over the glowing embers with precise control.

Aesthetically, the hazy interior presents a quintessential realization of in'ei raisan (praise of shadows), where spatial depth and atmosphere emerge from the delicate interplay of gloom, rising smoke, and filtered sunlight. The smoke-darkened beams, unvarnished hearth logs, and patinated iron kettle embody the essence of wabi-sabi and yōnobi—the profound beauty discovered within utilitarian objects aged through daily domestic use and fire.
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Leia is up and about and ready to play. 😺
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a wonderful week! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love her so much.♥️
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Waking up to Leia reaching out to me. What more could anyone ask?❤️
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a lovely Caturday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Taking a quick washo I'm on me.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a terrific Thursday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a extra nice Monday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Have a restful Sunday -Pippu- 🐾😸🧡🐾
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A #caturday map of the nordics
4 cats in the shape of norway, sweden, findland and denmark. The "sweden cat" has its balls on the "denmark cats" face.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a lovely Caturday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Fahan(Fawn)@bsky.social @fahanfawn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We have had a couple of days of light rain. Hamilton has entered winter mode. #gingercat #orangecat #caturday
Ginger cat sleeping in a stretched out position on a duvet. He thinks he is allergic to rain.
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cats with jobs: Food critic
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Leia planning to roll over on her small platform.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a fabulous Friday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Pippu can't believe how lucky she is to get a second tuna brekkie soon... 🐾🙀...😸🧡🐟🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside, mouth open
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Leia wasn't really mad, just talking loudly.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a restful Sunday... 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My darling Leia still asleep. She slept right in the middle of the bed all night so I was wedged on one side.
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a lovely Caturday! 🐾😺🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a fantastic Friday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy Thursday from Leia!
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Happy Whiskers Wednesday! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sweet dreams, everyone!
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a tasty Tuna Tuesday! 🐾😸🧡🐟🐾
A white and grayish cat taking a nap outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good morning from the Morning Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a lovely start for your week! 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat sitting outside
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Mage1 @mage1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Good afternoon from the Afternoon Pawtrol 😺🐾 Have a lovely & restful Sunday. 🐾😸🧡🐾
A white and grayish cat outside
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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My heart, my soul, my Leia.
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