Have you ever noticed the wonderful texture of willow tree bark? This shot makes me want to start a series of tree bark photos.
Happiness is a butterfly
View more →“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Waxahatchee
Saturday night I went to see Waxahatchee perform at the Sylvee in Madison. It was the best concert I’ve been to in a long while.
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Shore grass sunset
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
This colorful beauty was my favorite of the butterflies I saw at the Olbrich Gardens Blooming Butterflies exhibit. I like to think they were looking back at me with the same fascination I had for them.
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Black squirrel
Something I’ve never seen in Wisconsin before! I discovered that black squirrels are not a separate species, but have black fur due to a hereditary overabundance of melanin. This black beauty is an eastern gray squirrel.
Blooming butterflies
A few shots from this year’s Blooming Butterflies at Olbrich Gardens. Above is a giant swallowtail.
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