The cool and moist environment of the Attadale Gardens, Wester Ross, Scotland, is ideal for growing ferns. They are displayed in an old quarry and a sunken fern garden with a geodesic dome glasshouse for treasures that need more protection. Under the canopy of deciduous trees the Dicksonia antarctica (tree fern, soft tree fern) plants provide height and unity for this large collection of fern species.
This is such a beautifully done graphic! It shows, really well, why declawing your cat can be so excruciating and disabling for the rest of their life. Notice how the bottom of the 3rd toe bone is mostly what’s weight bearing? If you amputate that bone (which is the most common surgery) the end of that 2nd toe that’s never meant to bear weight will be what your cat puts weight on when it steps. Also, notice how the tendon runs the whole length of the toe? That means when you cut the tendons to that final, amputated digit, you’re going to mess up tendon function in the entire toe.
Cats are digitigrades which means they walk on their fingers, toes and pads (root of fingers/toes). The paw gets its shape because the fingers and toes aren’t flat on the ground but only the fingertips and toetips are touching it, which is why the “beans” are actually just the tips. When you declaw a cat, you cut off their fingertips and toetips and that is inexcusable.
Here’s also something I drew rather quickly to demonstrate
Double Temple of Haroeris (Horus the Ancient) and Sobek at Ombos (“Kom Ombo”), detail from one of the columns of the Forecourt: the Goddess Outo (‘Uadjet’) in Her form of serpent-headed vulture represented upon the ‘neb’-basket, wearing the Red Crown, spreading Her wings in protection and holding a fan with the ‘shen’-ring
