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SUMMER 2026

Mid Summer Flowers: Southern Magnolia, Flossflower & Bull Thistle

Insects in the Grass

Left: Sachem butterflies always bring the cuteness. Like a real life Pokémon. Butterfree?

Right: Damselflies are camera shy. Exhale too hard and off they go. This common blue damselfly (Enallagma Cyathigerum) stayed put long enough for a blurry, zoomed in smartphone photo. If nothing else, it's inspiration to commit to my digital camera.

A sachem butterfly on a field thistle flower growing in the grass.

Love the Butterflies. Hate the Video.

I'm not a video master. If I were a master, this mobile phone video would've capture what I intended to capture. The sachem butterflies delightful, frenzied flight from thistle to thistle isn't as dreamy as I experienced it (no camera captures thistles' sweet scent). The lighting could be better, the video sharper.

But I'll share this imperfect, impromptu video anyway.

I lamented the absence of butterflies all summer. I took a short walk to get some fresh air. Not to create a masterpiece. Then, without my camera, I walk by a field of butterflies.

A smartphone camera's better than nothing.

I hate this video. But I love the butterflies.

Rainy Summer = White Field Mushrooms (Agaricus Campestris)

One puffball cap white field mushroom emerges from the grass.

Three white field mushrooms grow in an arc in the grass.

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