Visiting the Botanical Garden teaches you, among other things, that our planet Earth has undergone many climatic changes in her life. It's gotten really WARM and then really COLD (and/or vice versa) and now it seems to be getting WARM again. Our little flower bed out front produced the first daffodils of winter, 2006, this past week. And here they are.Last week as Cathy and I were walking from work to Union Station, we saw a butterfly! And here that is, too, if you can see it...it's hanging from the yellow dandelion in the center of this photo. Follow the row of bricks at the edge of the lawn, and just to the right of the metal grillwork on the right hand window, you'll see a blur of yellow. That's where it is.
Here's a wee version of it....can't do any better than this, sorry.
From the teeny tiny photo it looks like a swallow tail. So we get more butterflies with global warming. No great loss (polar bears, puffins etc.) without some small gain (more butterflies).
ReplyDeleteno swallowtail....they've become fewer and fewer. this was a very pale yellow cabbage-type, or maybe a very big skipper. the darker yellow you see is the dandelion in bloom where it was dining. still...in december???
ReplyDeleteand here in new york city: green grass. all of us everyday people see it, so what about the deciders?
ReplyDeletehappy new year. enjoy returning to see how you balance images from the past with today's. i need to consider that on my blog. and thank you for including mine on your list!
yours, naomi