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I will be teaching “Digital Photography – SLR” this spring 2018 at the Cass Career Center in Harrisonville, Missouri. Registrations are now underway (and the class is already filling up). Get details here: “Spring 2018 Photography Classes”.
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A Cat in the Garden
Today I’m featuring another notable find from my recent butterfly garden tour at a wonderful butterfly garden near Paola, Kansas. A couple of butterfly caterpillars (“cats”) were busy feeding on one of the garden plants as I walked the path through the garden. These caterpillars will soon become beautiful Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) butterflies: In […]