Everything is wild and scary and desperate, and I needed a break.
So, photos! First, the sweetness of my snugglebug:

(img desc: Kizu, a fawn dog with goblin ears, lays her greying muzzle on my pink pants and looks up at me pleadingly, hoping for food.)
Even though I’m trapped in the house, there’s some beauty I can see:

I think the caption covers the image description, there.
And of course there’s my TimelordCat, Monte:

(img desc: A seal point Siamese mix with sable face, white whiskers and bright blue eyes is lying on a sage-colored cushion, looking up at the photographer and meowing at them.)
Another out-the-window bit of joy:

(img desc: seen through a window screen that catches the late afternoon sunlight, a very skinny grey squirrel eating a purple petunia ignores the closeness of the camera.)