Full Spicebush Swallowtail Chasing Barn Swallows Moon
The Full SSCBS Moon rises about 830 Thursday night. Get out and enjoy it y'all. P and I enjoyed a extended weekend with my sister at her ranch near Navasota, Tx over Father's Day. I'm telling you our time there was so quiet and unhurried. P and Celest visited and cooked and visited and cooked having the best of sister-times. While there we were constanly swarmed by Barn Swallows who were tending nestlings in mud nests up under the eaves of the porch, pretty cool and interesting. More than a few times I would look up from a book or conversation to see a Spicebush Swallowtail, that is a butterfly y'all, in full Top Gun combat mode in persuit of a Barn Swallow, I mean hot on his tail. Never in my life have I whitnessed such and I am not sure what that was all about or that is what I actually saw. The ranch house is set in the middle of 100ac and surrounded by hundreds more, neighbors were scarce as hen's teeth and not visible from our vantage point. I'd call this t...