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Wordless Wednesday

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Monarch Watch in Pittsburgh

I saw a monarch on the Rose of Sharon bush by my front porch. I had to get shoes on to go to the yard to photograph the butterfly as you can see from the first attempted photo below.

There was a round sticker tag on the Monarch’s wing, which I’d never seen before. It was very exciting.

Turns out it was a tag of Monarch Watch “Monarch Watch is an education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migration. Monarch Watch was founded in 1992 by Dr. Orley “Chip” Taylor and the monarch tagging program was launched in the fall of that year.

I was able to go online and sign up and registered the tag sighting.

First picture- too dark The light was wrong from the porch. If I hadn’t gotten a different angle, I wouldn’t have seen the tag.
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Find the Hummingbirds

The top and bottom photos are easy. There’s one in each photo.

Taken with the phone. They are fast but such a delight to see as I sat on my front porch this morning.

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Wordless Wednesday

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The Rose of Sharon is Now Unfurled *

Rose of Sharon is NOW unfurled* see below

Thanks to a comment by Yvette of Priorhouse blog I looked up Rose of Sharon in Grapes of Wrath click to read of the symbolism of her name and character. It’s been a long time since I read it.

I’d mentioned the Bible reference before from the Song of Solomon

*I’d posted a Rose of Sharon blossom recently and declared it unfurled but it was truly furled and had only become unfurled now . “transitive verb. : to release from a furled state. intransitive verb. : to open out from or as if from a furled state : unfold.”

I was incorrect although I haven’t edited the post. Yet.

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Rose of Sharon, Unfurled

“One plant commonly called “rose of Sharon” in the US is Hibiscus syriacus…….”

It’s not really a rose at all

There are Biblical Origins but scholars can’t agree

After the rain
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