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Category: Butterflies
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"…flowering plants were revolutionary in their appearance on the earth some two hundred million years ago, are dominant on land from the arctic to the tropics, and are crucial to our survival." Since reading those lines in Rebecca Solnit's book, Orwell's Roses, I haven't been able to look at a flower without a…
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Keep it Kind and Patient and Heartfelt and Simple and Sweet! The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore (Dragonflies too!) Quotation…
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"…when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir Quote from Brain Pickings on Sunday, by Maria Popova. Butterflies from St. Augustine, Key West…
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Social distancing not required… Cat (DJ) and Armadillo, the Moon and Venus, Two Butterflies, Cat (Lucy) kisses Gator, Two Web-footed friends, Five Turtles! All Safe.
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While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant. Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…
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HELP! What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said, "This is a really bad idea." OR What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…
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A fallen blossom Is coming back to the branch. Look, a butterfly! by Moritake (1473-1549) Happy Earth Day!!! Of course, everyday is Earth Day! And since April is National Poetry Month, here is a Haiku from a book I have had with me all of my adult life, One Hundred…
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Lucky shot! or The Visitor.
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I thought this might be the flower of the eggplant, because of the color, but it turned out to be a Pipe Vine, which is host to a certain caterpillar, which turns into a beautiful Swallowtail Butterfly! I will let you know if we get the butterflies! After last night's rain,…
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I see you! Butterfly in Asters, one Autumn Day.
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