From our garden ~ Newly emerged female Monarch Butterfly drying her wings. Monday a male emerged, Wednesday a female–looks promising for another batch of Monarchs before summer’s end!
Newly Emerged Female Monarch Butterfly
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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."
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From our garden ~ Newly emerged female Monarch Butterfly drying her wings. Monday a male emerged, Wednesday a female–looks promising for another batch of Monarchs before summer’s end!
Newly Emerged Female Monarch Butterfly
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Beautiful Kim! There’s so much beauty in nature that we just take for granted. Your photographs make one stop and think about that.
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Thank you Fred–it’s the subject matter, really!
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Kim,
Absolutely splendid photos.
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Absolutely beautiful
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Very nice to hear–thank you!
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Your photos are wonderful – you really show the magic of this butterfly. Was wondering how you tell a male from a female.
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Hi Devera–See post later today at 2:00. I provided comparative photos so that you can see how to tell the difference between a male and female Monarch.
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