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Posted in Butterflies, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Nov 14th, 2009
PART II TIME OF THE MONARCH
Señora Rocío Treviño, founder of Mexico’s Monarch migration-tracking program, Correo Real, is thrilling butterfly trackers with her recent report of October 20 from Saltillo, Coahuila:
Today monarch butterflies adorned the sky and fields across Coahuila like we haven’t seen for years. From Cuatro Cienegas to Saltillo people reported thousands of butterflies. [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Oct 10th, 2009
Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter Oct 10
CHASING MONARCHS
The sun had not risen yet when I staggered sleepily out to Jim’s car in the early morning dark. My friends, both named Jim, were birders and well-equipped with binoculars and reference books to capture any animal or plant we might encounter during our adventure at Balmorhea Lake.
An irrigation [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Aug 2nd, 2008
FSM NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2Passion
My neighbor Shirley, in her late eighties an ageless wonder with softly curled white hair and an impish grin is passionate about flowers. The patio in her backyard is bright with summer blooms in pots of various shapes and sizes. My garden fence, the diamond-v wire kind, borders Shirley’s front [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Jun 7th, 2008
CHASING BUTTERFLIES
by Sandra Harper
“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
-Vladimir Nabokov
A recent mid-morning in late May was quite warm, and getting hot. Planting tomatoes on a day when the moon was favorably aligned and working to beat the heat, I was focused on digging and preparing the soil. I envisioned the [...]
