Close up photo of Most Beloved Cat at Gardens at Effingham

Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales

  • Welcome
    • Welcome to Gardens at Effingham
    • About
    • Seasonal Snapshots from the Gardens
  • Meet Most Beloved
    • Meet “Most Beloved” Cat: Her Backstory Writes the Tales
    • From the Journals of Most Beloved
    • Celebrate the Seasons! Gorgeous Garden Photos by Most Beloved
  • Meet More Cats
    • Meet More Cats
    • A Mother’s Day to Remember-Cali Cat Has Kittens
    • Happy Highlights: Newborn Kittens Video
  • Cat Journals
    • “Okay,Who Gave the Cat a Pen?”
    • The Cat, Considering Fall, Wists Melancholy
    • The Cat Writes a Poem-A Cat Tale for Spring
    • Ode to Joy of Being a Cat
    • Cat Naps and Winter Dreams: Is it Spring Yet?
    • When Peaches Meow: Musings with “Most Beloved”
    • Finding Spring in the Snow: Happiness is the Color of Daffodils
    • Happy Spring and Artful Blooms! A Poem by the Cat
    • Three Ways To Know When Summer Ends and Fall Begins (According to the Cat)
  • Seeing the Gardens: A Cat’s Eye View

Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales

  • Featured: Ninja Finds a Forever Home (And Other Black Cats in Fall)

    Featured: Ninja Finds a Forever Home (And Other Black Cats in Fall)

    Ninja Finds a Forever Home Ninja is Happy to Find a Friend From the Journals of Most Beloved: Ninja’s Story October Greetings and All that Jazz- Chilly night here mid-October and yikes! Days are short now. Not much daylight to lounge about basking in the golden rays of the sun. The dark descends quickly now. […]

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    October 13, 2022
  • The Journey Begins

    The Journey Begins

    Welcome to Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales. My name is Most Beloved. I write the cat tales, and I especially like tattling on the garden cats. I live in the big house at Gardens at Effingham, and have the luxury of being the only indoor cat. I had a rough time as […]

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    August 11, 2022
  • Celebrate the Seasons! Gorgeous Garden Photos by Most Beloved

    Celebrate the Seasons! Gorgeous Garden Photos by Most Beloved

    A Note from Most Beloved Sometimes, I journal my cat tales. Sometimes, (okay, quite a bit of time) I nap. Oftentimes, I munch and crunch on num-nums while journaling. And the rest of the time? Time when I’m not napping, paw-printing my way through my cat tales, and snacking on num-nums? I snap photographs of […]

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    August 5, 2022
  • Ode to Joy of Being a Cat

    Ode to Joy of Being a Cat

    From the Journals of Most Beloved: Ode to Joy of Being a Cat From the Journals of Most Beloved Ode to Joy of Being a Cat Scherzo. Forte. Crescendo without dénouement. Succession of notes, days metered in the click-click of 4/4, key of A (for August heat), unstable and trilling, repetition the same and in […]

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    July 21, 2022
  • Meet More Cats

    Meet More Cats

    Gardens at Effingham: Daddy Cat in the Rose Garden Gardens at Effingham Watch catsfrom your inbox

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    July 2, 2022
  • Finding Spring in the Snow: Happiness is the Color of Daffodils

    Finding Spring in the Snow: Happiness is the Color of Daffodils

    Daffodils in Early Spring With their creamy yellow centers surrounded by snow-white petals, Daffodils bring smiles of joy and unbridled happiness in anticipation of spring. Saturday and I’m dilly-dallying the day away. Frivolously, I might add, and contentedly I must add, for I am alone with she who loves and adores me. Just the two […]

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    April 11, 2022
  • Happy Highlights: Newborn Kittens Video!

    Happy Highlights: Newborn Kittens Video!

    Welcome to my journals! So good to see you here. I am “Most Beloved,” she who lives in the big house at Gardens at Effingham. I write a great many of the stories here, recording my observations, snapping photos, and keeping a daily journal about the gardens. My journals are my sketchbook where I keep […]

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    April 5, 2022
  • A Photo Gallery of Midwest Gardens in Bloom

    A Photo Gallery of Midwest Gardens in Bloom

    Celebrate the Seasons through Flowers At Gardens at Effingham, we celebrate spring, summer, winter, and fall through the joy of our perennial gardens. Enjoy the gardens in full bloom through this photo gallery of the seasons. Spring Beauty Spring and summer bring a spectacular display of early, mid, and late blooming flowers, shrubs, and trees: […]

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    March 27, 2022
  • Seeing the Gardens: A Cat’s Eye View

    Seeing the Gardens: A Cat’s Eye View

    Seeing the Gardens: A Cat’s Eye View …Says She, Making a List Doves in the ground applesYellow and red chrysanthemums Orange Canna Lillie still bloomingLilirope (lily turf) blooming. Birds—little birds and songbirds—bathing in the water garden fallsChipmunk? Not yet, though perfect day for sunningSquirrels? NoWhite moths, YesYellow Goldfinches? Now brown Apples groundedThough still some red […]

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    March 25, 2022
  • The Cat, Considering Fall, Wists Melancholy

    The Cat, Considering Fall, Wists Melancholy

    Fall Brings Melancholy and Reflection Fall brings melancholy and reflection. Earth, plants, trees, and flowers all begin to prepare for whatever journey life intends for them. Seeds scatter, birds migrate, bumble bees still cover themselves in pollen from flowers still blooming. Lavender is blooming again, still a dark purple, still vibrant and healthy, but fewer […]

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    January 23, 2022
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Close up photo of Most Beloved Cat at Gardens at Effingham

 

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