CaradB

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CaradB@caradb· 10d

Met a fren on my walk this morning

A wild rabbit in an urban setting, sitting on concrete behind a chain link fence. (It’s not trapped in there or anything, I just didn’t think I could get a picture without the fence unless I got a lot closer, which would have startled it.) It looks like how I imagined Hazel from Watership Down.

It has huge liquid black eyes, short ears, and a brown coat that’s actually agouti (each hair has bands of multiple colors - light brown, dark brown, white) which is just as good at camouflage in the city as it would be in the wild. The rabbits are kind of pests around here, but they beat rats IMO. Also I know I said the eyes are huge and liquid and they are, but there’s a look in them which makes me think “beady” and also “ready to dart away”. Not a hint of “approach and pet my coat to see how soft I am”

CaradB@caradb· 24d

He’s a mur-diddly-urderer!

A striped mackerel tabby in a doorway that leads to a second story outdoor porch. In front of him on my wood floor is a common house sparrow with a broken neck. He looks a little smug.

Please note that not only is this porch on a second story, we also have an owl statue to discourage birds from landing on the porch railing so they don’t get killed. Now I gotta dispose of the body, EW EW EW

CaradB@caradb· 25d

Want a lick? PSYCH!

Sassafras, a striped mackerel tabby cat, is licking a half-eaten coconut popsicle. His ears are in airplane mode, as if this was prey, and his pupils are wide with enjoyment.

CaradB@caradb· 26d

This is a bad cat, but a good blep.

A old lady tortoiseshell cat with a very pretty face and big green eyes and a tongue sticking out

CaradB@caradb· Jul 14

Blursed timeline. This is the sun.

CaradB@caradb· Jul 6

E S A B-Z B!

A bee absolutely covered in pollen, resting on a fading red rose

CaradB@caradb· Jun 28

Summer

A bee on lavender that’s just coming into bloom

CaradB@caradb· Jun 27

Guess who insisted on a walk when I got home and flushed out a rat? 🐀🤢

Sassafras, a mackerel tabby cat, looking at the camera and licking his chops

CaradB@caradb· Jun 19

Big rain. Big snails.

A striped garden snail in the foreground on a stone wall. In the background are green leaves with big fat raindrops and a golden light (the last of the day’s sun) coming in from the upper left

CaradB@caradb· Jun 7

Frassy with volunteer echinacea

A striped mackerel tabby sniffing a purple echinacea (cone flower)

CaradB@caradb· Jun 6

Body joy!

A striped mackerel tabby on a red leash rolling blissfully on pavement

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

SUCH a good cosplay of Kinger from Amazing Digital Circus - this is right outside a movie theater playing The Final Act on opening day

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Not a rose, not in bloom

I don’t actually remember what the fuck this is, our downstairs neighbor handles the garden that edges the patio. It looks big and kind of scraggly right now and there are a ton of buds waiting to go so I hope it’s an on-purpose plant. It looks sort of like if a plant became a muppet.

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Another non-rose

Purple geranium family thingie, idk. I got it as a shade plant and it is, it lives happily under roses of Sharon all year and it’s sloooooowly becoming ground cover. Much slower than I wanted. Maybe if I keep up with the weeding better this year, it won’t have so much competition and it’ll spread more and faster.

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Also not a rose

Volunteer purple echinacea sprouting between the bricks on the back patio

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Not a rose

You guessed it, it’s a pale pink peony. Not pictured: one billion ants that would turn themselves invisible if I tried to do anything like cut it and bring it inside for my desk, and make themselves visible again once inside. Ew. I hate ants.

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Yet more red roses, mostly not out. This time they are on the side of the garage.

Another dark red rose that would be a lot happier if I tied it properly to its trellis

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Not a very good picture of it but there’s another dark red rose just starting to come out, behind the fading rhododendron and some white peonies.

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

This poor benighted dark crimson rose lives a diseased life under a lilac which hogs all the sun and fresh air and probably water. If that other rose is the Favorite Child, this one is a red headed step child.

Some dark red roses amid healthy green lilac leaves and diseased yellow spotted rose leaves. I just like the lilac better, okay? So I’m allowing it to very gradually win.
I think the disease is powdery mildew which the fucking peonies - why does everyone love peonies so much??? - gave to all the roses but this year it’s not a problem because it’s been really dry (except on weekends) and we’re in a level 3 drought still.

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

Close up of the Good Child rose.

Again not much to add in alt text, it’s a closer look at the light pink roses that are my favorite

CaradB@caradb· Jun 4

More dark red and some blush pink. The pinks are probably my favorites of all the roses - very few thorns, wonderful fragrance, the blooms last a long time on the plant and when cut.