Tag : Nature

Dead Butterfly

A Dead Butterfly and Some Autumn Leaves

Earlier today, as I sat on a stone wall outside the historic Thompson Farm House along the Shore Road of Ogunquit, I witnessed a monarch butterfly end its final flight.

Rosa Rugosa, Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine

Rosa Rugosa along the Marginal Way in Ogunquit

Last summer’s fruit still clings to the end of thorny rosa rugosa stems along the Marginal Way cliff walk in Ogunquit, Maine — even as spring sunlight coaxes new growth elsewhere along the thickets.