Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) on May 25, 2008 | 19 Comments »
There were a couple of rainy hours available just before dinner today and I decided to spend them searching for a favorite wildflower, the Tolmie Star Tulip. It is still a little early in the season for them, but at the lower end of Munson Creek I was able to find three in bloom (photos [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Butterflies on May 20, 2008 | 18 Comments »
It started this morning when I did my best to catch up with a pretty little butterfly with orange tips on its white wings who was visiting one of my wife’s flower gardens. No luck there, but this small green-eyed one (Cabbage white) made a visit and that was some consolation.
After getting some yard work [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Maianthemum stellatum, Starry false Solomon's seal, Syringa on May 17, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Today, as it so often happens on the opening day of trout fishing here in Montana, the fishin’ gods favored the fish. I visited three different streams and didn’t even wet a fly. But that’s OK with me!
After a few days of warm weather, the snow melt has begun in earnest and the water in [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Butterfly on May 8, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This afternoon while stalking a wildflower, I was very pleased when this little guy came along and graciously stayed to pose for his portrait. I think he’s related to one I came across last July.
He appears to have a lot of attitude for a little critter only an inch tall!
He would be a good mascot [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on September 10, 2007 | 10 Comments »
‘Me and my shadow’
is a valley butterfly found near my house.
His cousin is a high altitude butterfly, found on a mountain peak.
I wonder why.
Posted in Butterflies, Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on July 31, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I met this little butterfly in the Patrick’s Knob roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of Western Montana. I didn’t know his name and I didn’t even know the name of his flower, but I did know that his species and his whole world is in danger of vanishing forever…
at the hands of [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Clouds, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Sunrise on July 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
It was an orange day, from the clouds at sun rise
to the lilies in the late afternoon. I wonder, why orange?
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on July 23, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Late July in Montana is a brown time. This little guy fits right in.
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on July 15, 2007 | 13 Comments »
This morning I noticed a very busy little butterfly visiting a wildflower, and was barely able to detect a tiny splash of color. Then I asked the lens to show me what that little one-inch-long guy really looked like, and this was today’s surprise…
Posted in Butterflies, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on July 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
