H.R. Waller
Date: 28 September, 2008
Time: 1400
Location: Laying in the meadow of Bush Park
Weather: Sunny, 70 degrees
As I was laying in the dewy green grass in the middle of a vast expanse of meadow in the middle of the city, neighborhoods and communities on all sides of me, I looked up at the few puffy, white clouds. Just as I was making the one directly above me appear as a puppy, something else above caught my eye. A beautiful butterfly drifted gracefully overhead and landed on the picnic table nearby. I rose slowly to my feet, and walked over to examine this creature more closely. Its wings were a pretty yellow like a banana that had been lightened. The edges of its wings were black and there were black stripes running rom the middle of its body, which was also black, to the edges of the wings. Also, at the very tips of the wings, there were little dashes of yellow on top of the black. This butterfly has such an intricate design. Upon consulting my Audubon Field guide, I concluded that it was perhaps a Western Tiger Swallowtail, which are said to live in parks, backyards, and streamsides, so it would make sense that one could see this specimen here.
Photo courtesy of Google Images.
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