Any photos of the lilies?
We have had Japanese beetles the past few years. They didn't seem
quite as bad this year. Maybe too wet for them ...
Joel W.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Walters, Martin
<Martin.Walters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We had lots of Asiatic lillies for quite a while. Really striking
> colours, while in flower. Then the dreaded red lilly beetles found them.
> I'm waging something of a losing battle with them, except in one area
> where I can monitor and deal with the infestation.
>
>
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Wilcox [mailto:jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 2:47 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] IMGs: butterflies, flowers, and other images to wrap up
> summer
>
> It was a summer of strange and often unpleasant weather this year where
> I live. Gallery is a hodge-podge of things from close by.
> Flowers are almost all from our yard -- requisite catalog of lilies
> (status update for Mike) and then zinnias later. We planted zinnias
> last year from packaged seed and then gathered the seed that became this
> year's crop. They seemed smaller the second time around, but that could
> be the weather.
>
> The monarchs like the zinnias and worked them pretty thoroughly over the
> last month. The non-monarch fellow was caught on a lonely country road.
> Couple landscapes I've posted before.
>
> http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7734758/1/butterfly?h=b185be
>
> Cameras were E-3 and E-410.
>
> Oh -- in the spirit of full disclosure -- photo of pelicans flying with
> the moon is a composite, just for fun.
>
> Joel W.
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