Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week begins a series exploring the five senses. This week is sight. She says: As the saying goes, a picture worth a thousand words. Think of photos you can take or have already taken that remind you of a fabulous sight. I like to call it “Eye Candy”. Several of the photos I picked out are of animals, which is conveniently the topic of Dutch Goes the Photo’s Tuesday Photo Challenge.

A romantic couple: Swans make a “heart” after mating, in one of our community ponds.

Cheetah mom and cub frolic in Tanzania:

After watching these two gamboling for about half an hour, I decided the cheetah is now my favorite wild animal!
In a close second place are these adorable genets, who reside at Ndutu Safari Lodge.  They looked down at us with such curious faces, and sat up there so quietly observing the humans down below.

My youngest “grandcat” Freddie – how can I help falling in love with this guy??

Here is my own beautiful cat, Hazel! This is an early photo of her, but it has always been my favorite.

This is a more recent photo of her, taken in our new house.

I guess it’s clear that I just love cats in general! (Genets are not cats, but they sort of look like cats.)

More eye candy is to be found in the beauty of nature.

A sunset in Tanzania

Cathedral Rock as seen from the campus of Verde Valley School, Sedona, Arizona
Flowers: at Chicago Botanic Gardens

Dahlia at Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA
I love to look at beautiful works of humankind as well.

In St. Matthias Church, Budapest

If I had to lose either my sight or my hearing, I think I would choose being deaf than missing out on the beauties of our world.