Zephyr

You might have noticed a while ago that I let the feline friday feature fade from the blog.  There were several reasons for this – Zephyr, our room mate’s cat, became very sick after Michael and I moved from our room mate’s apartment.  A few months later, he died, and I found it hard to post pictures of him after he had gone.

However, a few months ago Michael and I decided it was time to adopt a cat of our own in our new apartment.  *grins*  In the course of a weekend it turned from one cat to two, and shortly afterwards we found a family that had adopted two kittens only to find that their children were allergic.

I’ve now accumulated enough pictures of our two cats that I feel comfortable re-opening this feature.

Let me introduce you to Watson and Peake.  Peake is named after the C&O’s famous Chessie‘s husband, Peake (I’ll talk about the history of that more another time).  Michael’s family has a (formerly) grey tabby named Chessie (she darkened with age, and is now a black cat).  It felt appropriate to name our grey tabby Peake.  Also, Zephyr is the name of a rail line in Califorina (the California Zephyr), so it was nice to stick with the theme in honor of Zephyr.

Watson is white, and his name has less meaning behind it – Michael and I have a list (of course we do) of good cat names.  Watson was the one that seemed to fit.  Watson isn’t really entirely white – he has the smallest smudge of black/brown on his forehead.  It looks like he got a bit of soot there, and he hasn’t groomed it away yet.

Peake and Watson