Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Silver Spotted Skipper #ShadowshotSunday

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My bee balm plant is in full bloom. On July 8 I saw a lovely butterfly on it.  I followed it around as it went from flower to flower.   Than...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Silver Spotted Skipper #WordlessWednesday

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Recently, I've seen this small butterfly on my sweet pea plants.  My built in iPhone photo app identified this as a silver spotted skipp...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Finally a Monarch Butterfly #WordlessWednesday

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All summer I had not seen one Monarch butterfly.  Not one. Each year, there seem to be fewer and fewer of them. But, on Sunday, I finally sa...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Red Admirals #WordlessWednesday

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Saturday, spouse and I visited a combination gift/grocery store that has been open seasonally for many years in Maine, New York.  In the spr...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Butterfly and Bee #WordlessWednesday

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Oh where, oh where have all the butterflies gone? August 6, the first monarch butterfly I was able to photograph this year. We see bees but ...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

A Moment of Nature

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Nature has so much to offer us, if only we spend the time to watch.  I'm guilty of not watching enough. Today, we were getting in our ca...
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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Long Live their King

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Like many Americans, I was surprised, and saddened, by the death of Queen Elizabeth II.  She became Queen the year I was born.  She was the ...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Red Admiral Photo Shoot #WordlessWednesday

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In the third week of July, I was leaving my house.  I passed by a container of pansies (which aren't looking that great right now - they...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Elusive Viceroy #WordlessWednesday

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It's a scary thing.  I have not seen (close enough to identify) any monarch butterflies so far this year.  However, I finally saw (as in...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Pennsylvania Butterflies #WordlessWednesday

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The heatwave enveloping so much of the United States and Europe has finally found the Northeastern United States.  So I am taking it easy to...
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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Small Beginnings at the Community Garden

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Thanks to some delays (such as the park where our garden is located having to be closed for several days due to a paving project) we are a b...
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Saturday, October 9, 2021

October Big Day

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Today, in the birding world (a world I discovered thanks, in part, to the pandemic) it is Big Day.  This is a worldwide effort that runs, in...
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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Zinnia, Monarch and My Dreams

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 A moment of beauty from today.  I was out, and saw a monarch butterfly flying (I suspect they have started their migrations because I'v...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Black Swallowtail Butterfly #WordlessWednesday

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Usually, butterflies torment me. Either they don't get close to me, or they aren't close to me long enough to make for a good pictur...
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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Elusive Pearl Crescent Butterfly

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Today, I remembered I promised my readers a picture of a mystery butterfly I've seen many times during walks on a local flood wall. I th...
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