I guess the colors made kitty dizzy.

It has been called to my attention that today is Saturday, not Friday. I knew that all along and even if I didn't, so what? Nobody's perfect. And what's wrong with Saturday catblogging anyway?

A very fine photo. The cat is commended for careful composition. But couldn't we have passed on the story of Bush's favorite painting?

From http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237:

"George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a 'born again Christian.' It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled 'A Charge to Keep.' Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography.

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Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: 'Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.'”

Each time I scroll by this fabulous photo, the question arises in my mind--Is it a mori tabriz, perhaps?

Could be, mfd. I'd have to call the rug dealer to find out, except he's dead. The pattern on the cat I can help you with. It's known as "tabby" and dates back to the original, pre-Egyptian ur-cats, who followed our Neanderthal forebears around and lived off mammoth scraps. Hope this helps.