Monarch Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

Monarch butterflies are known to travel thousands of miles each year! Like so many others, I have always found the monarch butterfly to be such a beautiful insect. Its lore is made all the more powerful by the amazing continental journey that the species takes each year. The eastern North American monarch population travels thousands […]

Northern Pearly-Eye

Lethe anthedon - Northern Pearly-Eye

The northern pearly-eye butterfly waited for me on a rail. This northern pearly-eye butterfly was sitting on the railing of a bridge when Jill and I were on a hike at the Weldon Spring Conservation Area just north of St. Louis, Missouri. This park provides a great view of the Missouri River. We took the […]

Alaskan Bumblebee

Alaskan Bumblebee

A week later I was on a flight to Alaska On my 30th birthday i slept in and groggily reached for my phone to reflex check the social world inside my facebook app. The first post I saw was from a former shipmate I worked with in Louisiana mentioning crew openings for some fishing boats […]

Bee in the Anza-Borrego Desert

Bee in the Anza-Borrego Desert

We believe nature is most beautiful when it is in nature. This bee is enjoying a California barrel cactus flower.  This is a beautiful desert flower to encounter in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, located in southern California, not far from Joshua Tree.  This is a beautiful environment, especially if you time it for when […]