The cat who watches sunsets

This is Carlos the cat (well, as represented by a cell phone pic of my watercolor painting on still-water-warped paper).  Carlos can also be seen in one of the photos in my last post.  When I first saw this cat perched on the large rock in this picture, watching the beautiful sunset on the beach on my summer vacation, I named him Lenny, after a pig at Happily Ever Esther Farm Animal Sanctuary who likes to go out after dinner and sit on a hill and watch the sunset.  On three separate evenings, I saw the cat I later learned was actually named Carlos watching the sunset, once from this rock and twice from the boardwalk.  I never saw him during the day -- only when the sun was setting, and I learned weeks later from the town's Facebook page that he lives at a local motel and walks several blocks every night to the beach.

Though I've never stopped being a fan of crayons, I haven't picked up watercolors since middle school, but the beauty in that town and Carlos the cat inspired me -- because I think Carlos is a wise cat, and I think we should all make time to watch the sunset and seek out all the beauty and color in life we can find.