[OFB Cafe] Monarch Butterflys

[Donald R Spoon]

Rick Bowers wrote:
> That's awesome, Don! For me, near Boston, I had the first of the 
> leaves begin to drop from the trees yesterday. It's getting to be that 
> time of year when the colder temperatures arrive and the rakes come out.
>
> Last week-end was in the 70's as it has been all week. The 
> temperatures drop to the 40s/50s Friday night and the chance of rain 
> increases. Of course, I picked this week-end to go camping on Cape 
> Cod. It was planned a few months ago. Oh well.
>
> ~Ric
It has been drizzly here all day up until about a half hour ago.  I 
doubt many Monarchs are flying... <grin>, and we all know wet butterflys 
don't fly at night!  (takeoff on an old joke from Jackie Vernon)

Last year about this time, my wife and I made a trip to Alexandria, VA 
to see our son.  While there we rented a car and made a side trip down 
to see an old friend at Camp Lejune, NC.  The leaves were changing 
colors, and we REALLY enjoyed it!  The last time we had been anywhere 
the leaves changed was while we were in Ohio from 1988 to 1993. 

We have one grove of Maples in Texas in the "Lost Maples" park to the 
west of us.  You almost have to get a reservation to get into the place 
in the Fall!  Except for the few Elms and Sumacs, we don't have the 
foliage change you get up in your neck of the woods.   As a matter of 
fact, the "live oaks" shed their leaves in the spring  when the new 
leaves push the old ones off the branches!    Not much color change at 
all, just a mess in my yard to clean up!

I had a regular "Fall" while growing up in Missouri.  I miss it, but I 
sure don't miss the snow!  In a couple of months you will be shoveling 
your driveways and walks all day every day, and I will be watching the 
sunsets from my deck while enjoying a few Shiner Bocks 
(http://www.shiner.com/), and Moose Drools 
(http://www.bigskybrew.com/index.aspx/Our_Beers/Moose_Drool) while 
supper is cooking on the charcoal grill.

;-)

-Don Spoon-