Butterflies, Flowers, and Disillusionment

by | Jul 30, 2018 | Faith, Nature | 4 comments

Last Saturday afternoon, on my way down the mountain to fetch the mail, I noticed a black swallowtail (Papilionidae) sipping nectar from cardinal flowers blooming on the slope beside the upper driveway. The bright red trumpet-shaped blossoms of lobelia cardinalis,...