Back from the Pacific Northwest

Jaclyn and I recently took our first vacation together that didn’t include other members of the family.  Kind of a honeymoon a few years after the fact.  Like many things, this trip was a compromise–we spent time shopping and looking at touristy stuff in the cities, but we spent a couple days in natural areas [...]

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Photo Update

Here are a few photos from the past week or two.  It seems like there is more insect activity every day. First, a couple of migratory butterflies–a Red Admiral: And a Painted Lady: A very early Wild Indigo Duskywing–not a migrant, overwinters as a pupa: Grapevine Epimenis (Psychomorpha epimenis), a cool little day-flying moth which [...]

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