Diary 155
Diary 155
Thursday, August 20th
Steve Bannon has been arrested for fraud; Manafort is still in trouble; the Republican-led inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election has concluded that, yes, it happened.
The picture is of a huge hibiscus, about 9 inches in diameter. The second is of a huge bee, six times the size of my bees. As I took the pictures I hoped to include a Monarch butterfly. Why, I wondered, is this Monarch butterfly not perching on this huge hibiscus? The answer is that Monarchs have developed over millions of years to be creatures that only feed on milkweed, a plant many consider a weed, so they pull it up and plant hibiscus, instead.
The Monarch didn’t stick around to be photographed. It was desperate to find milkweed and a mate. If we’re to save our environment, and the Monarch’s, we should probably bustle around a bit, too.
