cattails are one of the prominent features of my landscape right now.  the snow has bent and covered almost everything but these sturdy stalks.  and we have a lot of them!  but it was the striped coloration that most caught my attention today.  i don’t think i have ever seen it quite so striped before.  it looks to me like tiger or tabby…like real cats’ tails.

cattails from turtle lake shoreline, saint paul, minnesota