Thanks for supplying the name for the black butterfly. Too lazy to
look it up. They were more furtive than the monarchs and I only
encountered them on lonely roads when the thistle were in peak bloom.
I couldn't get them to sit their wings for me, but from what you say I
guess I was lucky to get them to sit.
What does State Fair mean in this context? A brand name? An
occasion? A place?
I hope to have more to show you next year. A friendly lily lady just
did some dividing and I put them in the ground last weekend. I just
picked up my wife from the airport after 10 days visiting her mother
and school reunion. I will find out how I did. Thanks for looking
and commenting, Mike.
Joel W.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM, <usher99@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Really enjoyed the status update and studied them. Our hybrid
> daylilies did quite well though the season was 2-3 weeks accelerated
> due to the hot weather. We like the to get the State Fair mix zinnias
> and Monarchs seem to like 'em too. Particularly gorgeous capture of
> the Black Swallowtail on a thistle. They tend to take off in a quick
> linear pattern unlike Monarchs and can be uncooperative. I let 13 of
> their caterpillars devour our parsley but they still refused to pose.
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> Joel W writes:
> 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.
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