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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Nature’s Beauty. #18
Good morning everyone and Happy Sunday to all of you!
Walking along the path one day the sun shone brightly through the trees landing on this little patch of leaves causing them to simply glow such a beautiful bright green in an otherwise shaded area of the path. It was such a nice little vignette I just had to stop and take a photo of it. I hope you enjoy it too. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2022 Steve McLeod.
Looking At Insects. #19 Butterfly.
Hi once again everyone! I hope you are enjoying your Saturday.
Today we have another butterfly to share, this one is the “Macoun’s Arctic” butterfly. And this is the winter form for this butterfly. There is also a summer form and the color is a bit different. This picture was taken in the spring after this one came out of hibernation, so it was still the winter form which comes out in the fall, then it hibernates over winter. It is one of those butterflies that sits with its wings closed so its orange coloring only shows nicely when it is flying. It likes open clearings, open pine forests (especially jack pine), trails, roadsides and rocky ridges. This is a biennial butterfly, which means, in our area, they show up on even numbered years only. So we will not see them again until 2024. Well, have a wonderful weekend everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2022 Steve McLeod.
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