butterflies

http://www.britishbutterflies.co.uk/collecting.asp
This website has a little blurb about collecting butterflies.
i know, it's just

I do know that butterfly collectors like hunters have a love for nature, which to me is a good thing, i do believe they are part of what i call 'keepers of wild places'.

Yet i want to state here, i am against butterfly collecting, to me no argument really holds. ( I was actually appalled that it still exist, and more appalled that so many of the same species are taken.)

Yes, i went to part of a butterfly talk in Whitehorse, and i liked it i learned a lot. Thank you.

I learned, Butterflies aren't really threatened by this cold weather.  As for this Mourning Cloak  ( a hibernator)  which i have not seen this year ( some people claim they have) but apparently they will just sleep a little longer and come out when it is finally warm enough for them.( when will that be? we are still in suspended animation here this year)

I learned, Certain Parnassias, that i have never seen yet,  have as host plant  Stonecrop and Roseroot, ( Stonecrop is quite common  on the hills around here.)
Another Parnassia in the high alpine has as host plant the Corydalis pauciflora ( excuse my spelling)
Now i like that! because that is also a Corydalis that i have never met.

Here a little of my own observations
In my yard ( which has lots of poplars, one of the host plant for the Mourning Cloak)
the first Mourning Cloak was spotted
1998 April16
1999 April17
2000 April 21
2005 April 22
2009 April 25
2010 April 16
2011 April 23

in years not recorded, i might not have seen any or just not recorded the event.

green buds

on the birch tree in the garden.

evening light

I tweaked it a bit, but that's how it looked in the evening light

There were 17 Green-winged Teals in Kip's pond and a pair of Mallards

Saturday lots of snow turned into water

a slight hint

today there is a slight hint of spring in the air

It's Big

maybe all is not lost

yesterday i went birding again

if i would have woken up out of long sleep

i would have said

winter is here

it arrived today

imagine we'd skip a summer 

i could  

and still feel good

ha , but the birds keep telling me different

love birds

about  a certain Joy

i need to talk to someone to draw out the words, but who? 

even people who listen, the story takes a turn to where i think they understand

so let me here on paper  try to create someone who totally understands

who actually has words for what i feel

someone comes to mind, a woman i kissed in the bathtub once

i can't write her name

you can't write truths in a single sentence, they are a lifetime long

i rather tell stories where i don't shine

when i myself read a story which starts...

she was beautiful...

i am put off, i feel well that ain't me

am i beautiful in the eyes of him?, you know who.

( of course here too i cannot use his real name, here for different reasons. Voldemort comes to mind, did  J.K .Rowling touch upon something that is inherent in this day and age. Do we live stories now more then ever that contain things, that must not be named.

there is great pleasure in meeting him.

I like it very much that he is beautiful to look at

Yes yes suddenly the answer comes to me

i have to learn to dwell in Joy

not wondering what is right or wrong

if it is right or wrong

when the moment is

well then it is

i see the sparkle in his eyes, his slight smile, his body leaning into me

Siberian Tigers

A Northern Harrier.
is it?  I saw at least three kinds of bird's of prey yesterday.
Not recognizing them  for who they are, always this confusion in my head, the excitement of seeing but then always thrown in a state of, which one is it.
( i will try to identify all of them and post them on yukonbirds.blogspot.ca)

Last night i went to the Tiger Talk by John Valliant.
What i do know now is that i do want to read the book...
Because i want to learn about these tigers and  and i want to learn how people did live basically harmoniously with them for ... what was it 12 million years.
Tigers and people apparently co-existed since the beginning of  human time.

What confuses me greatly after such talk , was again, how it didn't get to the heart of the fact that i am the problem of the decline in numbers.

I am the problem!
I as a  modern human being. I feel i am having a larger footprint then theoretically possible for all humans to have and sustain the Earth as it was.

I do not know how to overcome this?

How do i stand up for the Tiger and all of Nature?

.....................

kunstur mystery