My travels take me to see my grandsons in Israel, on average once a year. Readers notice that I often share images of Israeli butterflies. Most of them are pan-Middle East species, generally found in surrounding Lebanon, Syria (Now that’s a distressed place for a butterfly to be), Egypt, and Jordan. It just occurred to […]
How some of us cringe at the thought of traveling half-way around the world. I mean the packing, dash to the airport, the airport!, security’s distrust of You (although you’ve spent your life being loyal), the cramped airplane, with the usual impassive fellow fliers seated around you . . . . Now look at this […]
Me too. I simply, almost, cannot wait to get out into the field again, and find and photograph butterflies. That last trip, December 21 through December 28th, left me almost, speechless. The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Texas! Butterflies, one new one after another. From those common to that area (all new to me) […]
One key do’er, Virgina Linch decided to single-handedly prime the pump, and began a campaign to reinvent a brownfield site in her town, Eatonton, Georgia. She energized a small group of friends, and they together produced an oasis for butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, moths, hundred of other insects as well as birds, reptiles, amphibians . . […]
Winged Beauty Butterflies 