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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Spotted this silver-spotted skipper while hiking at a local land conservacy preserve

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Went for a hike. Saw ice. (The cool kind.) Thoroughly documented was ice was doing with my cell phone.

Neat geometric patterns in the ice at a local pond

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Posting this now. #2026MMM starts soon. I am team Honey Badger, and actually I do care. I care very much.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I love going to the beach on the really stormy and cold days. This is Lake Michigan, which forms these winter ice ridges, and then on windy days like this, the waves crash and spray. Pro-tip, check the wind direction before you start so you hike the loop with the wind at your back on the beach.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Going with number 3 movie for that year. Looks like 2026 will be another year of doomscrolling... or maybe another re-watch of the Loki 2 series.

Movie poster for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A friend of mine would make homemade gingerbread house kits and invite her friends' kids over to build and decorate. Dozens of kids. It was great. My kids being my kids would try to make something not house shaped from the house kit pieces. As teens they baked thier own custom pieces. This was 2020.

Gingerbread marvel heli carrier, with one engine on red licorice "fire"

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

1) Yes, real. 2) Colors 3) Yes 4) One more gift, but otherwise finished

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Seen while on a walk today. Checked Google Maps. This is half a mile from railroad tracks.

Hand written sign in yard that says, "Walk right in, it's around the back"

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

South central Michigan. Our first snow of the season.

Garden art frog sculpture, with an inch of new snow on it

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This is my first ever creation using crochet. Taught myself this week while recovering from minor surgery. Tied it off this morning. It is a coral aka hyperbolic geometric surface.

A blue and pink frilly coral ish shaped knitted thing

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Visited Peninsula Point lighthouse at the north end of Green Bay. Cool spiral stairs. Built in 1865.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I made loose leaf tea, as I have done several times a day for the last couple of years. Today it is white tiramisu, water 180F, and steeped 2 minutes.

Two tea mugs, with stickers (one is a sloth sticker)

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Did a 1 mile segment of the NCT, which stretches from upstate NY to North Dakota.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thinking of Jane Goodall and her influence on my career and thinking as a wildlife professional. I have 1000+ books in my personal library, but only 32 on the shelves on my desktop. Jane authored two of those, both with "hope" in the title. She taught me hope backed by conviction and hard work.

Books on a bookshelf, including a Jane Goodall book

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A couple pictures from the garden this summer. Still blooming despite the drought.

Flowering Spurgeon, a small white flower

Bumblebee hanging from a flower petals on a cool morning

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I do not walk fast. I am proud of this fact. However, this fellow outdid me today in his leisurely stroll down the local path along the Muskegon River.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Slow down You move too fast You've got to make the moment last Just grazing bacteria of the bike trail And feeling goo-veeee

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

It is the time of year again. The morning sun is low in the east. Shadows lengthen. The all seeing eye casts its searching vision across the land.

Shadow of.me with my hands over my head, looking a bit like the Eye in LOTR

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Went u-pick apple picking, and found this beauty. I think it is a yellow garden spider. I am sure this spider has eaten many many flies that would have otherwise damaged the fresh apples my wife and I picked. A wild friend. Scary looking, but so are many of my friends.

Spider in its web with apples in a tree in the background.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Visiting Madison WI and exploring new restaurants. Tried this one. Wait staff handed us two menus, the regular and the brunch menu, then apologized that pretty much everything on the regular menu was sold out because fans from the Wierd Al concert last night cleaned them out. Brunch was 💯!

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Whenever I pick up a pizza from our local pizza place, I tell them my name and they ring up my pizza. On Friday I neglected to mention my name, and the cashier pulled up my order. They know me. I am officially "a regular" somewhere! Which is great, but also a little worrying. I eat how much pizza?

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Your not wrong on the birthdays:

A color coded chart of rank popularity for days of year as birthdays showing lots of popularity for September (as well as July and August

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Got lots of pretty scenery pictures, but this picture reminded me to laugh.

Bumper sticker that says true patriots brake for America's only native marsupial. includes picture of an opossum

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I would like everyone to keep repeating the misinformation about Michigan and how unpleasant life is here... so hopefully my family and I can continue to enjoy these kinds of Labor Day weekend crowds on a state park beach. (Friends of Mr. Durham, of course, are welcome to visit. It'll be our secret)

Beach view with lots of sand and only 2 people

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Earlier this week I was watering my garden and saw a rabbit, eating my garden plants. Sprayed it with the hose. The rabbit hid under a rose. I sprayed under the rose, and the rabbit shot around the corner and knocked over this bucket. I may have discovered a new hobby/sport: bunny bowling.

A bucket on its side in a driveway, next to an overgrown garden

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Two of my favorite things: insects and legos

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I found this yellow myxomycete growing on my mulch pile. Myxomycetes are one of my favorite creatures. Not animal, plant, or fungi. They are there own small obscure kingdom. They are amoeba/blobs that eat bacteria. This species is common on mulch, fades to brown spores during the day.

Photo of a bright yellow slime mold growing on wood mulch

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Quick 3-day car camping getaway at Munoscong State Forest campground. Scored a spacious riverside site, mid-afternoon on a Friday in northern Michigan. Reviews said it was too quiet, boring, with nothing fun nearby. Perfect!

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Found a new hiking spot at an Ottawa County park called Rosy Mound. It was a rainy morning, so we had it almost entirely to ourselves. Perfect mix of hiking through woods and dunes to a Great Lakes beach.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I bought (well, leased) my first EV this week. I named it Maximus.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I went swimming in a freshwater sea. This is my happy place. Visitors are always surprised that, "you can't see the other side." That this "lake" has feighters, lighthouses, and its own weather. #LakeMichigan #DelightOfTheDay

A sandy beach, blue sky,and Lake Michigan

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Work travel in and returning from Michigan's Upper Peninsula yesterday. Stopped for a Faygo Rock & Rye and a pasty, and ate them at an overlook watching the cargo ships pass. Mackinac Bridge in the distance. #Michigan #delightoftheday

Photo of food with a suspension Bridge in the background

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Enjoyed a root beer with friends this evening. #delightoftheday

A comic of snoopy ordering two root beers

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Most excellent tea is my #DelightOfTheDay My son gifted this tea to me, which he found at Carleton College's annual end-of-the-year thrift sale. I love loose leaf tea,and I could tell this morning that this was the good stuff. A quick search online, and yes, this retails for $176 for 1/3 of a pound.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

AOC has a way of cutting to the heart of the matter.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

My life needs more attention to the good stuff. And it looks like a couple BSers use #delightoftheday to track such. So here is the first: fresh, homegrown, sugar snap peas with dinner.

A pair of purple colored sugar snap peas on the vine

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My first criteria in purchasing a car is affordability, second is greenhouse gas emissions, third is flat area on rear available for bumper stickers. These two stickers were added by my adult kids to my old car. I am so proud. #bumpersticker #sticker

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Fayette State Park in Michigan's upper peninsula has great history and scenery, but I love it for the patterns.

Photo of exterior wall. Bricks and stonework.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Wild blue lupine at a natural area nearby

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Baby wildlife sightings on the Portland River Trail. (Not that Portland. No, not that Portland either. From the 11th largest Portland, which is in Michigan)

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Oof. Just looked at my recent posts. I am way off the balance I try to keep on my social feed of joy/beauty/wonder at the here and now and (for lack of a better word) acting as witness to the current mess in this world. So here is a pic of my choice recently in "matching" socks to shoes.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Found two new hiking spots, and at the second one there were these sassafrass trees with cool scars.

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Took a hike at a state park, one that relatively few people visit. Ended the hike at a Lake Michigan beach.

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