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A Travel Snack
I recently made another trip to the wonderful butterfly garden of Lenora Larson, near Paola, Kansas. Her wonderful gardens were filled with color and a large variety of butterflies and pollinators that were busy collecting nectar as fall is rapidly approaching. One of my favorites on that morning was a few Monarchs that briefly stopped […]
Fun Friday: Monarch & Rattlesnake Interaction
The local Missouri Master Gardener group I’m a member of had a great week. On Wednesday morning we met and drove to a wonderful butterfly garden that a nearby Kansas Master Gardener established many years ago. We had a very educational tour from the local butterfly expert, learning much about the butterflies and the plants. […]
One Last Fling?
I had hoped to publish another post yesterday, but my 3-day art festival in Lee’s Summit, over the weekend, took it’s toll on me … I came home Sunday evening very tired and wore out! I had a great show and met many new nature lovers, some repeat customers, some former co-workers, and I even […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, butterfly, Cass County, fall, Missouri, Monarch, nature, nature photography, Viceroy
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Royalty on the Prairie
A couple of mornings ago, I spent about 4 hours on Snowball Hill Prairie, photographing the last of this year’s wildflowers. Transitioning into fall, the last of the wildflowers are now in bloom, while lots of wildflowers are already setting seeds for next year’s color. Arriving before sunrise, there was not much happening except for […]
Posted in Butterfly Photography, Fun Friday Post, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: behavior, Blog, butterfly, Cass County, fall, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, Monarch, nature, nature photography, prairie, Snowball Hill Prairie, wildflower
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Fun Friday: ViceroyMania
Yesterday morning, before getting to work on my large backlog of “things to do”, I decided I would fix my coffee and sit on the front porch and enjoy it while watching nature around me at my rural Missouri home. This was especially nice since our temperatures have really cooled off overnight, with expected highs […]
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Tags: Blog, butterfly, Cass County, insect, Missouri, Monarch, nature, nature photography, summer, wildflower
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Monarch Chrysalis
I came across this image while editing my Lightroom catalog last evening … another image I have not previously published: At first, I thought it was a swallowtail chrysalis, but after a closer look, it is a Monarch’s chrysalis. This was hanging from one of my sister-in-law’s flowers in one of her flower gardens, in […]