by northoftheridge | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
I think it says something good about my strength character that I have not given up on trying to identify Skippers. For those of you who are not cognoscenti of insignificant, mostly drab, and very hard-to-differentiate-one-from-another butterflies, Skippers are those...
by northoftheridge | Aug 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
One hates to dispute with the Bard. He is dead, after all, and cannot defend himself, but I’m not sure he’s right about names. In my experience our words often bias our senses. If it were known as the Tudor Stinkthorn, I suspect that a Rose might not smell as sweet....
