About ten days after a monarch caterpillar forms its chrysalis, it is ready to come out and face the world – as a butterfly.
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A tiger swallowtail
In central Pennsylvania, I’m likely to encounter an eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) from late spring through early fall, and that’s a true pleasure because it is a large and beautiful butterfly.
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Aphrodite in my backyard
That is, an Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite), a large and beautiful butterfly. It came to dine on the black knight butterfly bush and allowed several different views.
Continue readingA ruby-throated hummingbird
In addition to this being a good year for hummingbird moths, hummingbirds have also been frequent visitors. From about the last half of August to the first nine days of September, whenever I looked outside, I saw a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding, either at hyssop, butterfly bush, or the rose of Sharon blossoms.
Continue readingA snowberry clearwing
Of the two hummingbird-style moths in central Pennsylvania (that is, the snowberry and the hummingbird), the snowberry is the smaller of the two, having a body size equivalent to a large bumblebee.
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Excerpts from Gilded Basilisk reviews
My goal is twofold here, as I continue to learn about blogging. The overall goal, obviously, is to present a few excerpts from reviews which The Gilded Basilisk has received. The other goal is to see how well I fare with visually setting up quotes. And here we go: Presenting four review excerpts (taken from Amazon reviews):
Continue readingA red squirrel
The eastern red squirrel is the acrobat of the squirrel world, and, photographically speaking, I have the advantage of a nearby tree opposite my living room (in State College, Pennsylvania) sliding doors to have a good view of red activities. (This also happens to be my test for adding photos to a post as well as working out the miracle of the “read more” button.)
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Success!
Today’s accomplishment is to have my latest novel (and available via a link), Thora’s Dagger, in the right-hand portion of my blog. Considering how I’m feeling my way around starting a blog, I’m pleased by that. My next step will be how to have photos or artwork available in the main portion of my blog.
A further step
Hey! I’m feeling pretty good about inserting my own photo into the banner/header (or whatever one calls the graphic at the top of a blog), as well as having an “about me” page. So what’s next? Perhaps to write something more substantial, or at least to think of a method to have my novels appear in a right-hand column. Anyway, today was progress, with the expectation of more to come.
Here we are, part 2
Given the choice of showing this blog under construction (and all the stupid animations saying as much) and stumbling forward, I think I rather stumble forward.
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