Apologies are in order, I suppose. I have been a blogging laggard.
Two-Striped Grasshopper
Baby Two-Striped Grasshopper
After struggling to manage a post all week I’m not doing any better this weekend. There seem to be too many other things that have to get done, and then that stuff that really gets in the way, like sleeping and eating.
Blue Dasher
So this is a little picture postcard from last Sunday at McGinnis (this Sunday has yet to be processed). Weekends have been hot and steamy. I suspect I move a little slower in the heat. Maybe my brain does too.
Unidentified Meadowhawk
Red-Spotted Purple
With any luck I will add identities to some of these creatures tomorrow.
I hope to start making up for all of this over the holiday. Thanks for your patience!
Update 7-10-14: My friend Linda Padera who has been paying attention to butterflies and dragonflies a lot longer than I have weighed in on my butterfly ID and I have corrected it to Red-Spotted Purple. She said the clear-winged Meadowhawks are difficult to pin down but “Striped” was not an option in this part of the country so I have changed it to “Unidentified” after checking some sources on the Internet that have not helped me to determine whether it was a Ruby or White-Faced Meadowhawk, the two most likely choices. This is harder than birds!
No need to apologize. We’ll take what you send, whenever you send, and enjoy.
Thanks so much, Jim!
Beautiful pictures. Don’t feel oppressed or we will feel bad about oppressing you. We don’t mean to even if we do wait for a new post eagerly.
Why thank you so much, Tom, if I may call you Tom (I picked that up from HJ). I don’t feel oppressed by anyone or anything other than my own guilt. It’s a Jewish thing, or so they tell me. 🙂
You may certainly call me Tom, Lisa.
I can be oppressed by myself without being Jewish so I think it just part of the human condition.
Your entitled. This is the reward for being “chosen.” 🙂