Onion Flowers and Skipper

The onions are blooming our chaos garden. They come back every year. I keep thinking I will harvest the tops for salads, but I am always overwhelmed with items from the CSA – never need to augment the crisper during the summer!

There was a Southern Cloudwing – a Spread-winged Skipper – getting nectar from the flowers…enjoying a last hurrah of summer. (Ref. Maryland Butterflies and Maryland Biodiversity Project). Use the arrow to the side of the image below to go through the slideshow. The proboscis is visible in some of the pictures. Note the shape of the eyes and the fuzziness of the body.

Unique Activities for Yesterday:

Prototype Grinch? I was browsing through the 1914 edition of Tik-Tok of Oz (L. Frank Baum) on Internet Archive and one of the first illustrations in the book (John Rea Neill was the illustrator) looked like a prototype the Grinch! Do you see the resemblance too?