Butterflies.

American Lady
(Vanessa virginiensis)

Monarch
(Danaus plexippus)

Unlike last year's wet summer, this year has been hot and dry. And incredibly rich in the butterfly world.
I haven't been able to continue with the Maine Butterfly Survey, there's been no time.


Butterflies of New England (North Woods Naturalist Guides)

Summer, Temple Stream.

An early morning appointment in Farmington. Afterwards a walk down a trail.

Temple Stream

Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey

Sunflower

I know, something so cliched , so common. Everyone paints,photographs needlepoints, well you get the picture.

But these are mine.

Monday morning

While most people are sleeping at 5 am, I got up and saw the sunrise.

Now, what did you do?

Makes you wish you would wake up earlier, doesn't it?

Bull Frog

Time is speeding by, and summer is here. A hot day meant a few hours on the water, and a few minutes to get in touch with the locals.

Yes, he really was sitting on a lily pad.

No,really he was.

Ribbon Snake

Ribbon Snake
(Thamnophis sauritus)

Nature delivers.

I've been real busy. Too busy in fact.  My mother has the double slap of Pakinson's and Lewy Body Dementia. It's been hard to care for herself when she doesn't know where she's at one moment, and in the next, knows .  Last week we took the offer by hospice and placed her in there for some medicine tweaking. It seems to be working, our last visit, she knew both my sister and me, and loved us. That was something she was having  difficulty with, and also us. One of the things that hospice was demanding of us, is to take time for ourselves.  We are.

You know how when things seem to be crashing down upon you, there is always little things that help refocus you. Nature always seems to do that.

Cow moose and calf

Atlantis Fritillary

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Northern Crescent

White Admiral puddle club

Red Squirrel

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