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July 12, 2010
Celery Farm Butterfly Walk This Saturday!
Fyke Nature Association's annual free Butterfly Walk at the Celery Farm is this Saturday (July 17) at 10:30 a.m. at the Green Way entrance.
Not sure how many butterflies we'll see, but a scouting trip (and bring-water-to-the-Butterfly-Garden walk) on Sunday morning found a few specimens and plenty of dragonflies.
(If anyone would like to ID this skipper above photographed on Sunday, please do. Consider it a bonus Monday Morning Misery.)
Earlier this month I saw a clear-winged moth at the Butterfly Garden, so there is some good stuff around. Ace butterfly man Tom Burr is leading the walk. I'll be his batboy.
E-mail me here if you can attend — and please bring some jugs of water for the Butterfly Garden if you can.
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It is a sin because mockingbirds do no harm. They only provide pleasure with their songs: “They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us”. The mockingbird is used as a recurring motif to symbolise innocence and victims of injustice throughout the novel. It is a symbol of innocence and beauty against racism and hatred.
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1. I agree with Deedee about the Broken Dash, because she’s the one who identified it for me when I photographed one.
2. The meaning of the Title, “To Kill a Mockingbird”: Don’t “Boo” “Tom” when he doesn’t know one butterfly from the next on the Butterfly walk. (Have to actually read the book–or see the movie–to get that corny joke.)But, really, we shouldn’t oughta accuse folks falsely just ’cause they’re different and just go around singing pretty songs in their own way. Guess that kinda wraps it up. -
Northern Broken Dash
It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird!
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Deedee Burnside
It is a sin because mockingbirds do no harm. They only provide pleasure with their songs: “They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us”. The mockingbird is used as a recurring motif to symbolise innocence and victims of injustice throughout the novel. It is a symbol of innocence and beauty against racism and hatred.
Tom Burr
1. I agree with Deedee about the Broken Dash, because she’s the one who identified it for me when I photographed one.
2. The meaning of the Title, “To Kill a Mockingbird”: Don’t “Boo” “Tom” when he doesn’t know one butterfly from the next on the Butterfly walk. (Have to actually read the book–or see the movie–to get that corny joke.)But, really, we shouldn’t oughta accuse folks falsely just ’cause they’re different and just go around singing pretty songs in their own way. Guess that kinda wraps it up.
Deedee Burnside
Northern Broken Dash
It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird!