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| The shady spots are cool on a morning like this one. |
Sunday morning we walked down to the east end of the paved road. The temperature has now drop into the high 50's with the passage of the front. The dog as I have said before finds cool weather to his liking and on Sunday morning he was running ahead of me like a puppy. As we walked along the road I spotted a Monarch butterfly flying beside us. It was stopping every few feet to warm itself be opening it's wings to the sunshine. It would not let me get very close without fluttering away.
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| Look closely and see the Monarch. |
The Monarchs are starting their epic migration from the U.S. and Canada down into Central America. They come this way I suppose to feed on the bounty of Golden Rods and other wild flowers that are present now. I know from experience that soon this place will be full of these beautiful butterflies flying and resting, flying and resting, always south.
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| Zig-Zag's field looks good. |
The field where Zig-Zag the bull stays is now green again after being mowed for hay. The Golden Rods are adding their color to the field and making the scene very pleasant. As we turned and headed home I saw a prickly neighbor has emerged from the grass.
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| This Thistle is just starting. |
This is a Thistle plant. It will eventually grow into a large spiny circle of about one foot in diameter and then a prickly bloom will pop out and look very pretty for a few days. The bloom will die away leaving dandelion like tufts with seeds connected which will blow around and start the process over again. These Thistle seeds are the ones that are in the bird feeders. I would hate to work on a farm where they grow these plants for seeds. You would need a very good pair of gloves. Thanks for reading my blog today. Bye.
