It was August 2004. At home in Kaaawa.

This is Toby. We had rescued him as a kitten two years earlier. At first, he required bottle feeding, so he had lots of handling at an early age. The result was a wonderful personality. He was such a good cat.

I’m rummaging in old photos and, when I saw this one, I was struck by how perfect it is. I don’t recall what digital camera I was using then. I think it was a Canon DSLR. The image I found was small. However, I used Gigapixel AI, software by Topaz Labs, to enlarge it from a relatively tiny image into the larger and much improved version you see here.