I don’t know just where butterflies go on non-sunny summer days, but they were certainly plentiful on this sunny, 24 degree morning.

At 7 am it was quite foggy, but the fog soon evaporated.

This morning’s group:

Some botany and other sights:

Species list: ring-billed gull, mourning dove, chimney swift, rock pigeon, red-bellied woodpecker, northern flicker, eastern kingbird, bank swallow, barn swallow, tree swallow, Carolina wren, gray catbird, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, American redstart, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, common grackle, Baltimore oriole, orchard oriole, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (28 species)

NATURE POETRY

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things – 
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; 
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; 
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; 
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; 
      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. 

All things counter, original, spare, strange; 
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) 
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; 
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: 
                                Praise him. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

Miles Hearn