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It’s been a really good week for street cat portraits, so have another one:
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A Allen, plump, friendly female grey tabby with green eye posing on a park bench in the Pedion Tou Areos.
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Neapoli cat.
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Colour photo. In the Neapoli neighbourhood of Exarcheia, a pretty little one storey house painted terra cotta pink. The skip in front of it is covered in green construction cloth, and on it sits a brown-gold longhaired tabby with green eyes.
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
“No looming unless with belly rubs.”
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Close up on a deep orange tomcat with pale green eyes who has been rolling on the pavement inviting belly rubs and is not best pleased they have been paused for photographs.
April 25, 2026 at 4:45 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Aiolou, June 20th.
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Right in the middle of the tourist district on a quiet midsummer evening a sooty grey adolescent kitten with white paws, belly, chest and muzzle, alert and friendly, on haunches, trying to nose out if I have food. I did not. Colour photo.
July 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Sometimes you’re happily sprawled on a dusty car roof and a stupid two-legs ambles along and interrupts your washing routine.
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November 2, 2024 at 6:41 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Cleanliness is next to catliness
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On a sidewalk in the middle of a busy city, a white longhaired cat with tabby ears and a fluffy tabby tail squints with concentration while cleaning an extended rear paw, pink tongue curling between toes.
February 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
What on earth do you think you’re doing?
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On a marble windowsill inside some white painted railings, a white cat with black ears and tail, a pink nose, and green eyes is sitting on haunches judging you.
June 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Lions guarding a doorway. #CatsOfAthens #Caturday #cats
Two cats flanking an apartment building door. Both longish haired, tabby and white, stern, green-eyed. One was tabby ears and tail and is otherwise white, the other is mostly tabby grey with ginger but a white mask and belly
May 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Feral cat portrait project: Mets

“Human, your manners are dreadful, but I am too dignified to do much about it.”
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A leonine longhair brown/grey tabby sits on haunches against a yellow wall giving me a mildly exasperated look.
February 7, 2026 at 8:27 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
From the archives: probably my best ever Athenian cat portrait.
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A handsome tabby, serene on the seat of a parked motorcycle outside the Agora archaeological site in Athens. The side mirrors of the bike flank his ears, and behind him, the blurry image of the Hephaestion (Thisseion) temple.
December 7, 2024 at 6:59 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Cats of Athens: Feral cat portrait series : Just before he scarpered.
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A young orange tabby longhair, photographed on a low wall, seconds before he disappeared into the garden behind. He is assessing the threat I pose, and decided not to chance it.
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Car cat, Exarcheia.
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On the hood of a car in a narrow street of small apartment buildings. Photo of a ginger tabby shorthair, young, and in deep orange good health. He is sitting on his haunches, tail wrapped around his paws and is peering anxiously at the intruder. I left him alone.
April 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
“If I can just ignore it, maybe it will go away.”
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A grey tabby and white street cat crouched on a car roof, tail stretched out behind, pretending not to be nervous and hoping fervently that I will go away. There are some neoclassical buildings in the background.
February 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Athens cat being extra Athens.

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Colour photograph of a cat perched on the lopped trunk of a clumsily pruned olive tree outside an apartment building. Her face looks down at the camera like Athena’s owl in a vase painting, only in calico, with one ginger ear and one black gilded forard in concern, green eyes frowning, mostly white body crouched and ready to flee. Having taken the picture, I left her to it.
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Athens: Feral cat portrait project.

“If you come any closer I am going to have to get up. And I don’t want to get up.”

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Photo of an orange and white medium-longhair cat lying on a grassy slope, tail curled round his hindquarters, green-eyed face swivelled to gaze at the photographer and gauge my intentions.
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Happy Caturday from this friendly fellow at the Ippopotamos cafe and bar.
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A plump and sleek tuxedo cat, looking friendly on a pedestrian street in central Athens. White shirt front and asymmetrical white and black muzzle with a black chin and white socks.
May 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Proud Vespa owner
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A beautifully kept light turquoise Vespa with chrome trim and and a tan seat, parked on a street corner. A tan tabby-and-white cat sitting up on it, head cocked, looking a bit coy and pleased with feline self for matching the seat colour so well. The eyes are green and one ear tip has been snipped.
January 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Γατάγγελος: or Did it Hurt When You Fell From Heaven?
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Colour photo of a white and palest beige cat half-asleep in the sun by a shrub in the park. My lens was slightly greasy and the bright fur seems to glow with a pale aura in the bright light; unearthly.
March 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Keep walking, two legs. There’s nothing for you here.
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Lying by a curb in a dry flower bed, a white cat with a black tail and asymmetrical black mask - green eyes slitted with warning
May 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Funicular feline.
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Colour photo of an orange-and-white cat, mostly white. The cat is lying sideways, sleepy and content, at the café at the base of the funicular ascending Mount Lycabettus in central Athens. Two large square food tins repurposed as geranium pots are in the background, and further back, an out of focus tourist or three and some cars.
August 1, 2026 at 8:13 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
“You are judged and found wanting“.

Feral cat portrait project.
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A sleek black cat with big ears and green eyes sits on haunches on a green wooden bench, tail wrapped around paws. One ear is cropped, indicating the cat is spayed. The expression is forbidding and superior.
February 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
-stretch-

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It’s a photo of a cat, head and shoulders in frame, on an asphalt path, stretching. Paws at full length, toes spread, eyes blissfully closed, the white cat with orange tabby patches is lying in the dappled light on Lycabettus, inviting the affection of passersby, but happily settling for sunlight and flexibility instead.
March 28, 2026 at 6:38 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Cats of Athens: Portraits Series: ΓΣΥ
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Phot of a young grey tabby with an inquisitive expression on all fours. The cropped ear indicates neutering. This is taken at the Greek Military’s Geographic Service, where someone clearly looks after the strays, they are calm, bright-eyed, and in excellent health.
January 3, 2026 at 7:52 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
This absolute star hangs out by the Military Geographical Service complex, and those army surveyors must be sweethearts, because the cats around there always assume humans are there to adore them.
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colour photo of a slightly flooffy white and tabby grey cat lying on a car hood. The pose is sere, paws stretched out towards the camera, green gaze limpid and mildly curious. The scritches have ceased, it seems to say, but soon they will resume, as is my due.
September 19, 2026 at 7:49 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Today’s Athenian street cat had not given permission for a close-up.
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A tabby-and-white cat sitting on haunches at the entrance ramp of a building, tail wrapped around feet, reproachful expression in narrowed greeen eyes as some fool two-legs leans down for a photo.
January 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM