Beautiful! I'm amazed at how similar your skippers and hairstreaks are to skippers and hairstreaks on this side of the the Atlantic... And the Sulphur is very like our Brimstone.
But the landscape - that's something else. I'd never heard of a rain barn before.
The storage tanks are full, which is great at the start of real summer. The creek is running now, and has had water in it (puddles if nothing else) for a month. There's still some water behind the #3 gabion, which may last a week unless it gets too hot--it's been wet long enough for the clay bottom to swell mostly shut. I wish we'd get another rain--one a week--to keep the dry woods seep-swale wet enough for all those frog and toad eggs to hatch and then survive--some of them go from egg to breathing air pretty fast. Others can survive only in permanent pools, which we don't have enough of, since we can't source that much water without building lots more rain barns.
If you ever do a kickstarter to build rainbarns, be sure to post the link here. I suspect other folks would also chip in, especially for more nature shots.
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But the landscape - that's something else. I'd never heard of a rain barn before.
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