Documenting our Landscape

The other day I was photographing wild flowers when I came across this stand of cattails on the banks of a pond. There they were, tucked in amongst their leaves as if they were hiding but hiding from what? Or, perhaps the opposite is true, that the cattail provides a hiding place for creatures living in or around the pond. So I did some research and what did I find…The cattail is a most useful plant, a grass related to the very grass I grow on my lawn.