One ritual that always grounds me and limbers up my imagination is walking to the nearest park or green space to hunt for butterflies. It is my long goodbye to summer. In just a few weeks, this will start to disappear… Eastern Comma A flash of bright orange caught my eye. My brain assumed “monarch” […]
I love marking the tiny epochs within a season. This is especially vivid in the spring when we’re desperately vigilant for signs that winter is in fact going away. In the Midwest, it will begin with the snowdrops and crocuses peaking up from winter-brown lawns or a light snow, the first signs of life and […]
As luck would have it, I’ve discovered two monarch butterflies since my last post. Monarch butterflies are now an endangered species, and every time I spot one, I ponder the increasingly perilous journey they make in the fall and spring. The ones I’ve encountered are usually traveling solo. This week, the Journal Star reported that […]