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A swallow tail butterfly beats a DC kabuki dance any day of the week
6 Responses to “A swallow tail butterfly beats a DC kabuki dance any day of the week”
It surely looks and sounds better!
Thank You.
You gave me something beautiful, so by my tradition, I’ll give you something beautiful. Music that is great in headphones.
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Nice pic Ron. Interesting thing about Tiger Swallowtails, the females also come in a dark form and can be mistaken for Black Swallowtails. Also, I’ve been seeing Giant Swallowtails around mid-MI over the past several years, whereas I never saw them before the late nineties, so their northern range may be extending. The Giant’s are the only butterflies around here that get larger than the Tigers. I’ve been seeing more Monarchs over the past few weeks too.
We’ve been getting tree frogs on our sliding door at night.
Okay, they’re not exactly beautiful, but they are cute.
I miss the sounds coming from the creek behind my home in the St. Louis metro area (as well as many things about that arrangement and the location) that began in spring and reached full volume in summer. (I miss the fireflies, among other things natural, like the deciduous forest in the East, too. We can grow black-eyed Susans here, and other plants with irrigation, at least.)
I remember locusts (cicadas, amazingly loud bugs) in the evening, and bullfrogs with spring peeper backup at night. Country living may be quiet in the winter, but not in the summer.