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June 19, 2006
Looking Out My Back Door
I spied this on a young sunflower plant. It was there when I left to take the cat to the vet. It was there when I got home again. I think it's just out of the cocoon and is drying off. The wingspan (and I'm terrible at guesstimating these things) is about 4 1/2 inches. Big butterfly.
male Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucas
How appropriate that it's a Tiger Swallowtail.
I took Arboretum pix yesterday. Edited some, but I just felt "off". My sense of what was good was really shaky for some reason. I just couldn't get things right. I'll try to get them done and posted today.
In slightly related news, I filled my hard drive yesterday. Since mid-February when the new camera arrived, I have taken over four thousand photographs. On that camera alone. I need to do some winnowing and some removing from the hard drive. I had no idea I'd become such a picture-taking fiend.
Posted by sally at June 19, 2006 10:05 AM
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