syrinx

ready for liftoff

a new sighting in the garden, this time a desert checkered skipper, a little butterfly that sits astride a fall aster here and spreads its wings wide. Barely noticed over in the asters, on the other side of the yard from the blue mistflowers, where the in crowd of Queens and the occasional Monarch hoot and holler it up with their big wingspreads and loud coloring, the checkered skipper looks like

tags: butterfly desert checkered skipper