This week's cat was submitted by Lynn Title of Lanham, MD.
Lynn writes, "Tilde
(named for the diacritical mark, because she has one on each shoulder)
is a nine-year-old former feral kitten (from the D'Arcy Street PG County
Animal Shelter, where all three of my cats come from) who is now a
thoroughly-domesticated "sucky cat". She is an indoor-outdoor cat, and
keeps the local mole and vole population down. Last week she presented me with a newly-killed rabbit nearly as big as herself!
"The
photos were taken in my back yard, in late afternoon, atop a
stacked-stone wall I built myself using free stone I brought home from
highway and construction sites near a friend's house in Brunswick, MD; for
years every time I went up there I came home with all the fallen stone
my poor Corolla wagon would hold, enough to build another couple more
feet of wall. The plant behind Tilde is a Scotch broom. They want
alkaline soil and sharp drainage, so there is chicken-grit mixed into
the soil, and it is mounded above the rest of the bed. In front is a
variegated liriope."
