It is the winter of the year 2000. It is pretty cold out and most of the herb garden has been killed out by frost. Everything seems so drab except the colorfull Autumn leaves and they have lost a lot of their brilliance. About the only green flora left are the thymes, Santolinas, red tipped Photenias and Heavenly Bamboo or Nandina. The red berries of the Nandina glow in red abundance in spite of the heavy clouds shading her part of the world. Ms Kitty liked to stalk through the canopy of the herb garden being fairly well hid from sight, and now, about the only thing that suggestes a jungle is the row of Photenias and Nandina which are so lush even now.

So this is her 'jungle.' She enjoys lurking around in it even though it isn't very wide. It was planted as a free spirit wind break on the southwest side of the herb garden. That and a latice wind break. She lurks through her 'jungle' and then...

being a big black Panther, she decided she needed to sharpen her claws, so she would be ready to meet her prey. She sort of slinked along through the "jungle" untill she came to her favorite tree.