Living at an elevation of 6,000 feet along Colorado's Front Range, we can expect frost until the middle of May. This does not preclude earlier harbingers of spring, some of which have made a welcome appearance in the previous two days. Wir leben auf 1.800 Meter Höhe am Ostrand der Rocky Mountains in Colorado, wo … Continue reading (Almost) Wordless Wednesday
When I asked about your favorite display in my Art on the Streets 2024 post two weeks ago, “Colorado Butterflies” by Ian Stewart garnered the most votes. This did not come as a surprise, as it is a magnificent mural and as many (most?) people tend to be enthralled by these beautifully winged creatures. One … Continue reading Can Never Have Too Many Butterflies
Next to birds and flowers, I probably pay closest attention to butterflies and moths. These are fascinating creatures with winged scales (which is reflected in the name of their order, Lepidoptera, or lepidopterans, from Greek lepis, meaning “scale,” and pteros, meaning “wing”). An estimated 180,000 lepidopteran species exist on this planet which is a formidable … Continue reading Beauteous Butterflies
October 4 was a stay-at-home day in order to nurse our Covid and Influenza vaccine-related fatigue, malaise, and soreness. Cloudy and sunlit skies took turns and were punctuated by brief periods of rain. During one of the sunny intervals, a Monarch Butterfly was seen flitting from cosmos to cosmos in our driveway, which has turned … Continue reading Insects Welcome!
When one’s dream of snow arriving on crystal wings remains unfulfilled (or those splendid hexagon crystals dissipate almost as soon as they appear), one might dream of other beautiful wings that drift through the air like apparitions from a better world. The realization that both crystal-winged and scaled-winged entities exist in this world renews a … Continue reading Dreaming of Butterflies
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