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--Boundary_(ID_8zYncZz9EupEnw/egkAwAQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT APR. 20, 2009 - Another Sunny and fairly warm definitely Spring day! I walked a bit in Wolfville, and the most abundant flowers were the very low and blue SCILLAS? or scilla-lookalikes? Attending one of the extensive bunches of these was a lovely orangy butterfly, a MILBERT'S TORTOISESHELL. I have not seen many of these early Spring butterflies, and I had forgotten just how relatively small this species is. Like the Mourning Cloak butterfly, this species and the related Compton's Tortoiseshell overwinter as adults and then get active in early Spring. Other flowers seen were some early daffodils and tulips and hyacinths, crocuses of course, yellow aconites?, red and silver maples, and another small American elm (most of the large Am. elms in Wolfville have died and been taken down, victims of Dutch Elm Disease fungus from the Old World. Also it's nice to report that the flowers were attended by LOTS OF HONEY BEES! Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Ave. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone 902-542-9204 e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau --Boundary_(ID_8zYncZz9EupEnw/egkAwAQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial"><b>APR. 20, = 2009</b> - Another Sunny and fairly warm definitely Spring day!=A0 I = walked a bit in Wolfville, and the most abundant flowers were the very = low and blue <b>SCILLAS? or scilla-lookalikes?</b>=A0 Attending one of = the extensive bunches of these was a lovely orangy butterfly, a = <b>MILBERT'S TORTOISESHELL</b>.=A0 I have not seen many of these early = Spring butterflies, and I had forgotten just how relatively small this = species is.=A0 Like the Mourning Cloak butterfly, this species and the = related Compton's Tortoiseshell overwinter as adults and then get active = in early Spring.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial"><b>Other flowers seen</b> were some early daffodils and = tulips and hyacinths, crocuses of course, yellow aconites?, red and = silver maples, and another small <b>American elm</b> (most of the large = Am. elms in Wolfville have died and been taken down, victims of Dutch = Elm Disease fungus from the Old World.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial">Also it's nice to = report that the flowers were attended by<b> LOTS OF HONEY = BEES!</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jim = (James W.) Wolford</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">91 = Wickwire Ave.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Wolfville, Nova Scotia, = Canada</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">B4P 1W3</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">phone = 902-542-9204</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">e-mail <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></font><= /div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"In = wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David = Thoreau</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial"><b></b>=A0</font></div><div><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 14px;"><br></span></font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_8zYncZz9EupEnw/egkAwAQ)--
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