Butterflies and Fall

Butterflies delineate the transition from early to late fall.  Choice food plants–asters and butterfly bushes—are in bloom in my garden now, in mid September, and Monarchs and skippers dance among the flowerheads.  Summer’s swallowtails are mostly gone, but the ubiquitous Cabbage Whites persist.  A few stragglers remain from the horde of Painted Ladies that descended … Read more