Katharine Tree

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Hobgoblin, garden seer, first year law. She who must be obeyed/Herself.

It's a nice rosy red color but the petals are curled up and not pretty.
A perennial border. Lots of yellow, orange, pink, and purple.
Perennial border long shot. They're so blousy and flowery
A ton of buttery daisies and peachy lilies
It's red leaf lettuce, and the intact heads are starting to get tall. Beside the leaf lettuce are some heads of romaine. No cyclospora here!
A stainless steel pot full of smallish potatoes and garlic cloves
A single dahlia flower. It's cream colored.
A brown paper grocery sack full of small, dirty Yukon Gold potatoes.
A black and white stumpy cat rolling on the floor
It's wet and overcast
Torrential rain
The desert of the American southwest
A contracts textbook, a Starbucks cup, and a notebook full of notes in hot pink ink sitting on a small circular table. I did homework while my kid's braces were coming off.
Dutch painting of Hunters returning home in front of a vast snowy landscape
A plot of 3 Sisters, corn beans squash, with knee-high corn and iddy biddy beans & squash plants. It's wet because I've just watered in the final seedlings.
My hand holding an empty spiral notebook and a new, full one
My feet and a 9 iron ready to thwack a golf ball in the back pasture.
My hand pinching a 1.5" binder that is almost full
My hand holding a bowl of fried rice
My brand new tube of Dr Jart+ face cream. My kid has pasted an F over the J.
Chicken, peppers and onions, tomatoes, guacamole, shredded cheese on rice
A textbook header: Introduction to Promissory Estoppel. It only took eight weeks of hearing about it to get here.
Peewee the black and white cat is pouncing on a feather toy
This Bic Cristal pen was teal. RIP.
A low shot of a perennial border with silvery artemisia, purple sedums, yellow-orange kniphofia, purple Verbena bonariensis, and pink roses in the background. There are more tufts of silvery plants far away and, if you look close, some peach-colored daylilies are about to get going.
A black and white cat with green eyes, chilling out on pavement
A black and white cat sprawls in sun-dappled grass while watching a blue feather toy. The lighting is striking with golden sunlight and deep green grass. It's Ghibliesque.
A single peach colored rose, very frilly
I'm using a watering wand on 80' of perennial borders, with yellow and orange kniphofia and deep pink rose Boscobel up front
My hand patting a nice black and white kitty on his head
Black and white cat strung out in a cat bed amid farm debris.
A black and white cat attacking a feather toy on the grass.
A black and white cat with a shaven tail is chinning the corner of a raised bed with cole crops in it. A garden hose is snaked around, so you can tell I'm in the process of watering.
A perennial border in bloom with pink roses in the foreground
A case of "beer braised steak" flavored Pringles.
Three stacks of printed cases clipped with yellow, orange, and pink paper clips
A wild foxglove, fuchsia colored. Ten years ago my husband picked a stem from the side of the road and shook it all around. Now we have these for free every year.
A black and white cat peeks out from inside a compost bin
A black and white cat with an airtag collar in the grass
A peach rose, frilled like always
A deep pink, very frilled rose
Nine 7x9 freezer trays of Johnny Marzetti
The old pen was purple, the new pen is teal
A package of 24 Bic Cristal pens "Xtra bold"
I used up a Bic Cristal pen
The crumble is in an elegant oval baking dish. There is a lot of crumble.
A baking sheet covered in sausages, potatoes, and bits of onion, with garlic and rosemary and stuff.
A black and white cat playing with a blue feather toy on the grass. He's super cute, even with a shaven tail and a bloody nose.
White with purple edges
Peewee, a black and white cat, is on the top rail of the fence between a sunny perennial border and the rhubarb patch. He was headed away from us (his partially shaven tail and balls are hilarious) but is now looking back, appearing to have Regrets.
A cat, who has recently had the humane society treatment, lounging in a way that reveals they shaved his belly button.
Norden Bismarck herring in a jar. It is whole fillets with the skin.
A building mural that says Uff Da
A stack of "American Dew" soft drinks
A bald eagle on the ground, from a distance.
A storybook illustration of The Nightingale, in which the Emperor in a golden gown watches his court exclaim over the jewelled mechanical nightingale. Colors are rich golden yellow, aqua blues, and warm pinks.
God he's cute. He's black and white, wearing a blue soft e-collar (Collar of Shame). He has green eyes and he wuuuuuuvs me.
Gallon ziplocs of sliced rhubarb, that is
Giant rhubarb plants with a colander overflowing with cut stalks in front of them