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A post for Tree-mendous Tuesday!
While on a bike ride this evening, I stopped at the Butterfly Garden. I was hanging around this Birch tree trying to get a photograph of a Robin and noticed this lovely peeling bark.
Monarch Waystation,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence (Douglas County), KS.
Taken over my cousin Shawn's house in his butterfly garden in Toms River, New Jersey. Waystation number 11567.
Didyma (/ˈdɪdɪmə/; Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus. Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also called Didymaion. But it was home to both of the temples dedicated to the twins Apollo and Artemis. Other deities were also honoured within the sanctuary. The Didymaion was well renowned in antiquity because of its famed oracle. This oracle of Apollo was situated within what was, and is, one of the world's greatest temples to Apollo. The remains of this Hellenistic temple belong to the best preserved temples of classical antiquity. Besides this temple other buildings existed within the sanctuary which have been rediscovered recently; a Greek theatre and the foundations of the above-mentioned Hellenistic temple of Artemis, to name but two.
The ruins of Didyma are located a short distance to the northwest of modern Didim in Aydın Province, Turkey, whose name is derived from the ruins. It sits on a headland that in antiquity formed the Milesian Peninsula. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. The natural connection between Miletus and Didyma was by way of ship. But during antiquity the sediments from the Meander River silted up the harbour of Miletus. A slow process which eventually meant that the nearby Latmian Gulf developed from a bay into a lake (today Bafa Gölü).[2]
The linear distance between Miletus and Didyma measures some 16 km. As well as the simple footway there also existed a Sacred Way between the city and its sanctuary which measured some 20 km in distance. This Sacred Way, built in the 6th century BC, was used for festival processions.[3] It touched the harbour of Didyma, situated 3 km northwest of the sanctuary called Panormos[4] (today Mavişehir). Along this route were ritual waystations, and statues of noblemen and noblewomen, as well as animal and mythological beast figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in the British Museum (Room 13), excavated by the British archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton in the 19th century...Wikipedia
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I was really surprised at the gardens and the beauty for this time of year.
Pineland Farms - the gardens were constructed in 2001.
A professionally designed garden created and maintained for the public to enjoy and learn. The Garden, Lilac Garden and Annual Displays around Campus and the Great Lawn are available free for all to enjoy from 8 am until dusk, spring, summer & fall.
The 1-acre flower garden is a certified Monarch Waystation? Monarch Waystation’s are habitats that provide space, sunshine, shelter, nectar plants, milkweeds, and a sustainable management plan without the use of insecticides. Pollinators of all kinds including butterflies, bees, hummingbird moths and even hummingbirds benefit from this kind of habitat.
Highlights include more than 130 varieties of perennials, 6,000 flowering annuals, five different types of blueberry bushes, 20 apple trees, espaliered apple trees and an ornamental conifer bed.
The one-acre perennial, herb and vegetable Garden at Pineland Farms is a wonderful place to stroll along a quarter-mile of paved walkways, picnic on the lawn in the shade of the apple tree, or simply sit on the Adirondack swing and enjoy the fragrant air.
If I kept a Life List on leps, this would be a lifer. On Tropical Milkweed in the yard. This tropical milkweed is not only a waystation for migrating Monarchs, it's the best butterfly attractor in the yard.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
After a rather long Winter's nap, the Grizzly Girls are up and about in the evenings now. They are quite adorable.
The Missouri Wildflowers Nursery catalog states that the Eastern Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa) "has the most intense color and seems to be the best one for attracting butterflies. Pick this if you can only pick one." Did so, and these two monarchs were competing with a tiger swallowtail butterfly for nectar the other day.
Taken over my cousin Shawn's house in his butterfly garden in Toms River, New Jersey. Waystation number 11567.
Their rest stop completed, travelers on the White Pass & Yukon Route have reboarded their steam-powered excursion train and are making their southbound departure from the station house at Bennett, BC, on the southern shore of Lake Bennett at Milepost 40.6. Once the site of a dinner hall used by the railroad to feed the passengers and crew of trains transiting the area, this lonely waystation is now just a brief rest stop where passengers can get off, stretch their legs and use the facilities. The railroad no longer maintains any dining facilities here.
This image was captured from an overlook south of Bennett Station, during a September 2025 photo shoot on the White Pass & Yukon Route, which featured the last steam locomotive on the railroad, the 1947 Baldwin Mikado #73, which is depicted here.
PLEASE, NO invitations, graphics or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
I was really surprised at the gardens and the beauty for this time of year.
Pineland Farms - the gardens were constructed in 2001.
A professionally designed garden created and maintained for the public to enjoy and learn. The Garden, Lilac Garden and Annual Displays around Campus and the Great Lawn are available free for all to enjoy from 8 am until dusk, spring, summer & fall.
The 1-acre flower garden is a certified Monarch Waystation? Monarch Waystation’s are habitats that provide space, sunshine, shelter, nectar plants, milkweeds, and a sustainable management plan without the use of insecticides. Pollinators of all kinds including butterflies, bees, hummingbird moths and even hummingbirds benefit from this kind of habitat.
Highlights include more than 130 varieties of perennials, 6,000 flowering annuals, five different types of blueberry bushes, 20 apple trees, espaliered apple trees and an ornamental conifer bed.
The one-acre perennial, herb and vegetable Garden at Pineland Farms is a wonderful place to stroll along a quarter-mile of paved walkways, picnic on the lawn in the shade of the apple tree, or simply sit on the Adirondack swing and enjoy the fragrant air.
PLEASE, NO invitations, graphics or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
I was really surprised at the gardens and the beauty for this time of year.
Pineland Farms - the gardens were constructed in 2001.
A professionally designed garden created and maintained for the public to enjoy and learn. The Garden, Lilac Garden and Annual Displays around Campus and the Great Lawn are available free for all to enjoy from 8 am until dusk, spring, summer & fall.
The 1-acre flower garden is a certified Monarch Waystation? Monarch Waystation’s are habitats that provide space, sunshine, shelter, nectar plants, milkweeds, and a sustainable management plan without the use of insecticides. Pollinators of all kinds including butterflies, bees, hummingbird moths and even hummingbirds benefit from this kind of habitat.
Highlights include more than 130 varieties of perennials, 6,000 flowering annuals, five different types of blueberry bushes, 20 apple trees, espaliered apple trees and an ornamental conifer bed.
The one-acre perennial, herb and vegetable Garden at Pineland Farms is a wonderful place to stroll along a quarter-mile of paved walkways, picnic on the lawn in the shade of the apple tree, or simply sit on the Adirondack swing and enjoy the fragrant air.
Moments after arrival at the Station in Carcross, YT, the White Pass & Yukon's Mikado #73 sits with her train along Dawson Charlie Street, waiting for passengers to disembark before heading north to the turning loop, a little more than half a mile from here.
Originally named "Caribou Crossing", because it was a place where these animals crossed between Bennett and Nares Lakes, this little town pretty much grew up and died with the Alaskan gold rush. For most of the history of the WP&YR, this place was just a waystation for passengers transiting between Skagway, AK to the south and Whitehorse, YT to the north. Although the trains no longer go north of here, the town still serves as a fuel and rest stop for travelers on the Klondike Highway.
This image was captured during a September 2025 photo shoot on the White Pass & Yukon Route, which featured the 1947 Baldwin #73, which is the last steam locomotive on this railroad.
Didyma (/ˈdɪdɪmə/; Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus. Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also called Didymaion. But it was home to both of the temples dedicated to the twins Apollo and Artemis. Other deities were also honoured within the sanctuary. The Didymaion was well renowned in antiquity because of its famed oracle. This oracle of Apollo was situated within what was, and is, one of the world's greatest temples to Apollo. The remains of this Hellenistic temple belong to the best preserved temples of classical antiquity. Besides this temple other buildings existed within the sanctuary which have been rediscovered recently; a Greek theatre and the foundations of the above-mentioned Hellenistic temple of Artemis, to name but two.
The ruins of Didyma are located a short distance to the northwest of modern Didim in Aydın Province, Turkey, whose name is derived from the ruins. It sits on a headland that in antiquity formed the Milesian Peninsula. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. The natural connection between Miletus and Didyma was by way of ship. But during antiquity the sediments from the Meander River silted up the harbour of Miletus. A slow process which eventually meant that the nearby Latmian Gulf developed from a bay into a lake (today Bafa Gölü).[2]
The linear distance between Miletus and Didyma measures some 16 km. As well as the simple footway there also existed a Sacred Way between the city and its sanctuary which measured some 20 km in distance. This Sacred Way, built in the 6th century BC, was used for festival processions.[3] It touched the harbour of Didyma, situated 3 km northwest of the sanctuary called Panormos[4] (today Mavişehir). Along this route were ritual waystations, and statues of noblemen and noblewomen, as well as animal and mythological beast figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in the British Museum (Room 13), excavated by the British archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton in the 19th century...Wikipedia
Beelzebub (Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar)
Caterpillar Hosts: Hickory, Pecan, Butternut, Black Walnut, Sweet Gum, Persimmon, Sumac.
On tropical milkweed in the yard. I plant this milkweed to serve as a waystation for migrating Monarchs, but all the butterflies love the nectar. This is the first Pipevine I've seen in the yard.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
A little experiment to see what the moon would look like with a hat on.
Adams Ranger Station. Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho.
PLEASE, NO invitations, graphics or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
I was really surprised at the gardens and the beauty for this time of year.
Pineland Farms - the gardens were constructed in 2001.
A professionally designed garden created and maintained for the public to enjoy and learn. The Garden, Lilac Garden and Annual Displays around Campus and the Great Lawn are available free for all to enjoy from 8 am until dusk, spring, summer & fall.
The 1-acre flower garden is a certified Monarch Waystation? Monarch Waystation’s are habitats that provide space, sunshine, shelter, nectar plants, milkweeds, and a sustainable management plan without the use of insecticides. Pollinators of all kinds including butterflies, bees, hummingbird moths and even hummingbirds benefit from this kind of habitat.
Highlights include more than 130 varieties of perennials, 6,000 flowering annuals, five different types of blueberry bushes, 20 apple trees, espaliered apple trees and an ornamental conifer bed.
The one-acre perennial, herb and vegetable Garden at Pineland Farms is a wonderful place to stroll along a quarter-mile of paved walkways, picnic on the lawn in the shade of the apple tree, or simply sit on the Adirondack swing and enjoy the fragrant air.
Denver & Rio Grande Western K-27 #463 emerges from the west portal the 366 ft. long Rock Tunnel (MP 315.2) in near perfect light, hauling her mixed freight westbound toward the waystation at Osier, CO on a late September afternoon. The name "Rock Tunnel" is commonly used for this place today, but back in the early years of the Denver & Rio Grande, it was generally called "Toltec Tunnel", because it is located high above the 600 ft. deep Toltec Gorge, which is right behind my camera position.
This image was captured during a September 2013 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, which featured the 1903-vintage K-27 "Mudhen", #463. A great deal of credit for this shot is due to our Conductor, Alan Loomis, who timed our arrival at this location in virtually perfect afternoon light.
At Monarch Waystation # 11,842 today in Andover, NJ. No edits of any kind to this shot - it was a perfect day.
Part of the now retired Adams Administrative Site and ranger station. Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho.
Old Bent's Fort was located on the Santa Fe Trail and active during the 1830s and 1840s. It served as a trading post, way station, and eventually a military post during the Mexican War. It was also a meeting and cultural exchange point for American, Mexican, and Native American cultures.
The Adams Warming Hut is open during the snow season on a first come first serve basis. Apparently, there's no fee, but most people will need a snow mobile to get here since it's a 30 mile trip from the nearest snow park. The ranger cabin is also available in winter but there's a $50 a night fee.
Adams Ranger Station. Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western's narrow-gauge line from Antonito, CO to Chama, NM weaves back and forth across the border between Colorado and New Mexico, crossing it numerous times. In this frame, a Denver & Rio Grande Western C-18 Locomotive #315 has just re-entered Colorado as she takes a short stock train west toward the remote waystation in Osier, just a mile or so further down the line. The train is pictured here just about to enter a rock cut near Milepost 317.4.
This image was captured during a September 2013 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, which featured turn-of-the-century D&RGW power, including C-18 Locomotive #315 and K-27 Locomotive #463.
PLEASE, NO invitations, graphics or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
I was really surprised at the gardens and the beauty for this time of year.
Pineland Farms - the gardens were constructed in 2001.
A professionally designed garden created and maintained for the public to enjoy and learn. The Garden, Lilac Garden and Annual Displays around Campus and the Great Lawn are available free for all to enjoy from 8 am until dusk, spring, summer & fall.
The 1-acre flower garden is a certified Monarch Waystation? Monarch Waystation’s are habitats that provide space, sunshine, shelter, nectar plants, milkweeds, and a sustainable management plan without the use of insecticides. Pollinators of all kinds including butterflies, bees, hummingbird moths and even hummingbirds benefit from this kind of habitat.
Highlights include more than 130 varieties of perennials, 6,000 flowering annuals, five different types of blueberry bushes, 20 apple trees, espaliered apple trees and an ornamental conifer bed.
The one-acre perennial, herb and vegetable Garden at Pineland Farms is a wonderful place to stroll along a quarter-mile of paved walkways, picnic on the lawn in the shade of the apple tree, or simply sit on the Adirondack swing and enjoy the fragrant air.
There is no better plant to provide for migrating Monarchs in Oklahoma in the fall than tropical milkweed. All the butterflies are attracted to the nectar of the flowers, but it makes an excellent larval plant for the Monarch caterpillars. Produces a lot of fluffy seeds and will come up volunteer once established.
If you don't have any host plants for the Monarchs, consider planting some of this next spring. It's tall and leggy, best in the back of a bed. It pretty much gets pass wherever it comes up in my yard.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
This wasp kept dive bombing this Monarch butterfly while she was trying to lay eggs.
Updated: Thank you SO much, everyone! I've been raising Monarchs and other butterflies for 14 years. I got rid of the wasp with my hand held bug zapper and she went on to lay lots of eggs for me.
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A Chama-bound freight eases up to the water plug in front of the depot at the storied Cumbres Pass Station (MP 330.6). Once a very busy waystation on the D&RG Narrow Gauge, this location was home to a larger and more elaborate depot, a water tank, coaling station, ash pits...even a covered turntable. Trains were assembled here and helper engines were turned and serviced on a daily basis. A section crew was also housed here. Things are quieter here now, with only two trains per day passing through. The present-day depot was built in 1882 as a Section Leader's home, and assumed its current role when the original depot was torn down in 1954. Although the turntable and tank have also been removed, a water plug and wye remain, both of which are used regularly by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
This image was captured on a September 2011 Lerro Photography Charter which featured DRGW K-36 Locomotive #489 lettered as her long-lost sister #485, which was scrapped in the 1950s after a turntable accident.
In the bottom picture is our amazing guide Sister Taylor. She kindly took our picture at the end of the tour.
I'd be pretty despondent right now if I hadn't spotted this monarch caterpillar in the Pagedale Head Start pollinator garden recently--the first in several years; what with last week's headlines about a 45% reduction in invertebrates' population in the last 40 years and the likelihood of our entering a new mass extinction in general. At least planting milkweed is helping the monarch (and native bee) population recover a little.
I raise butterflies and moths as a hobby. I raised them from eggs last year and they overwintered in their containers in my shed.
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Since the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad first arrived here in 1880, the lonely outpost at Osier, CO has been a vital waystation on the journey from Chama, NM to Antonito, CO. Located at Milepost 318.4, Osier has served the railroad in a number of key roles. First and foremost, it was the home of a section crew that cared for the line. It was also a place to water and fuel locomotives and rotary plows. There was a depot here and stock pens where ranchers would bring cattle for shipment. At one time, there was even a turntable. It was just a little taste of civilization in the middle of nowhere.
Today, more than 140 years later, Osier continues to be a vital waystation on the line, serving the present-day Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. While the section house, stock pens and coaling station are still here and visible in this image, these pieces of infrastructure are preserved as living museum pieces and are no longer in use. The water tank however, is still quite active. And what you don't see here is the modern dining hall, which is just out of view to the left. Installed in 1989, this facility provides a welcome lunch stop to tourists, riding the trains in either direction.
This image, depicting mainly the historic features of Osier, was captured during an October 2024 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. The section house and water tank are visible on the left, while the preserved stock pens are on the right. Pictured front and center is the 1903-vintage K-27 Locomotive #463, which on this day was hauling an authentic Denver & Rio Grande Western Freight, for the event, which was organized by Lerro Photography.