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My Friend the Butterfly Counter

Butterfly counter, paid by the hours Walks miles, studying beautiful flowers. Captures blues, silvers, yellows, monarchs too They arrive in splendiferous colors and hues Okay I don’t get paid in money, she says. Something fun to do, for my Aunt Inez. Inez has been gone for fifteen years now, you see. Photographing butterflies is her gift to me.

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Date: 4/30/2020 1:39:00 AM
Butterflies are always part of my painting... I don't mind having that job.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/30/2020 7:25:00 AM
There really is a job - volunteer - where people walk a certain place for a couple of hours and log the kinds of butterflies they see and how many of them - for the conservation department. I have a girlfriend who does it.
Date: 4/29/2020 9:12:00 AM
I love butterflies and at any chance I get , I take pictures of them. I can't imagine the beauty of the photos you have at your collection to remind you of your aunt Inez! Beautiful tribute dearest Caren, Hugs xxx
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/29/2020 10:24:00 PM
They are wonderful here; truly spectacular. For I have three flower gardens.
Date: 4/29/2020 8:28:00 AM
Lovely tribute. Did I mention I hope to nursemaid as many monarch eggs as I can this year? I had three babies last year take flight. xomo
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/29/2020 10:25:00 PM
That is marvelous! We have wasps, bumblebees, butterflies, monarchs, luna moths, faeries, and brownies here. Some I can get photos of, others you will just have to see for yourself sometime.

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