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Kat Shaw

Kat Shaw

@thekatshaw.bsky.social

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Writer, gardener, cat mother. All photos are my own.

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Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Flowers on a sunday morning.

#flowersonsunday #sundayflowers #bloomscrolling #flowers #flowerphotography #naturephotography

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Karley rose grass. I love how the tufts seem to glow in the sunligiht.

#karleyrose #gardening #grasses #naturephotography #omsystem

Photo of Karley Rose grass

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 8d

Morning glory on Sunday morning.

#flowerphotography #naturephotography #flowers #bloomscrolling #sundayflowers #flowersonsunday

Close-up photo of bluish-purple morning glory flowers.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 9d

Japanese anemones. What looks like petals are actually sepals, and can sometimes appear uneven.

#anemones #japaneseanemones #flowers #bloomscrolling #flowersofbluesky #gardening #naturephotography #flowerphotography #omsystem

Close-up photo of three pink Japanese anemone flowers.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 10d

Boo. 🎃

#felinefriday #blackcatlove #blackcatsrule #halloweencat #catsofbluesky

Photo of a black cat with green eyes sitting inside a Halloween cardboard house.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 23d

Happy #caturday. #catsofbluesky #blackcats #blackcatlove #blackcatsarenotbadluck #blackcatsrule

Photo of a black cat sitting in a basket looking up.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · 29d

Zabulon skipper (I think) drinking nectar from ironweed flower.

#pollinators #pollinatorgarden #ironweed #zabulonskipper #butterflies #flowerphotography #macro #naturephotography #omsystem

Male zabulon skipper on ironweed.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 31

Moss on rock (sometimes I water it). #moss #naturephotography

Close-up photo of moss growing on a rock

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

Queen Anne's lace wildflowers in the morning. #wildflowers #villblomster #villgulrot #daucuscarota #flowers #bloomscrolling

Queen Anne's lace flowers

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 17

Blooms from one of the variegated hostas planted earlier this year. #flowers #gardening #hostas #bloomscrolling #shadeplants #naturephotography #olympus

Photo of a hosta flower stalk.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 9

This allium "millennium" is in full bloom. Everything else is sulking due to lack of rain. Trying to grow drought tolerant plants, but when drought tolerant plants are like, this is too much, what's the alternative? More onions, perhaps. #allium #pollinatorgarden #bees #pollinators #flowers #august

Close-up photo of allium "millennium" in bloom with a bumble bee on one of the flowers.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hummingbird mint/agastache with another one in the backdrop. #pollininatorgarden #hage #garden #bloomscrolling #flowers #yellowsunday

Photo of yellow agastache with a purple agastache in the background.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Aug 2

Happy #caturday. #blackcats #catsofbluesky #rescuecats #blackcatlove

Photo of a young black cat with a tiny white patch of fur below his neck.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 27

Yellow coreopsis for #yellowsunday. #gardening #perennials #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling #flowers

Close-up photo of yellow coreopsis flowers.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 26

Did I say I wasn't going to plant this late in the season? Did I? #perennials #flowers #pollinatorgarden #planthoarding #gardening #agastache

Photo of a car trunk full of plants

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 19

Happy caturday. #caturday #blackcats #catsofbluesky #rescuecats

A photograph of a black cat looking a little surly.

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 19

A brown-belted male bumble bee, possibly. #pollinators #bees #bumblebees #gardening #wildflowers

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 14

I keep meaning to trim this wild mint that's grown quite big, but the bees said no. #pollinators #beefriendly #flowers #gardening #pollinatorgarden

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 13

Perennials at the Hudson river park. #perennials #pollinatorgarden #wildbergamot #beebalm

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 8

The bees have been all about this lavender lately. #gardening #flowers #pollinators

Kat Shaw @thekatshaw.bsky.social · Jul 6

Quicksilver climbing rose. Opened up to full bloom in just one day. #gardening #flowers #roses