‘May the beauty of what you love be what you do’
We had a most beautiful visitor today- one we haven’t seen on our property for way too long. The oddity is Evening Grosbeaks travel in large mixed focks, but this bright fella is alone. I don’t usually take feeder images, but I’m still very weak - it was grand just to see him […]
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‘An Io moth rested on the screen, her second favorite moth, whose suprising underwings were the same pinkish gold as her hair. (Her favorite would always be Actis luna, etheral green ghost of the upper forest).’Worn out from your night of moth love’ she scolded–thats what you get’– but of course he’d […]
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Garry contines to fill memory cards daily… and I just can’t keep up. Everything is so tedious and time consuning..BUT i required beauty and joy/lauGHter.. you all provide that for myself and others but I just can’t keep up.
So, I have created a new yahoo group for blogging/photographer friends. If […]
‘Winking Marybuds begin
To open their golden eyes’
( Shakespeare)
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I took a quick trip with Garry down to check on the steelhead run in the Rifle River, hoping to see that the Marsh Marigolds had opened. They have- despite being a bit frosted last night, the ditches are teeming with these beautiful flowers.
Caltha palustris […]
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We’ve seen a few Mourning Cloak butterflies (Nymphalis antiopa) here and there over the past week, but today marks their emergence at home. There’s at least two flitting around the perimeter of the woods, stopping to nectar on tree sap and deer droppings, of which we have plenty.
The mourning cloak is one […]
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“May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun,
And find your shoulder to light on.
To bring you luck, happiness and riches…
Today, tomorrow and beyond.”
(Irish Proverb)
So the photo isn’t a butterfly, but I have no images of green butterflies ;) But since I have a wee bit o-Irish blood running through my […]
