Baltimore Checker- spot - Euphy- dryas phaeton - the oficial state butterfly of Maryland and my third new species this year.

 

Bicyclists - more than a dozen of them - head back toward Allentown after a stop at the Country Cupboard in Lenhartsville.

  Common Wood Nymph - Cercyonis pegala - is my tentative identification. If so, this represents my second new butterfly species this season.

  Kitten - one of about a dozen in this year's crop - waking from a nap in the food bowl.

  Common Ringlet - Coenonympha tullia - my first sighting of this species which is much more commonly encountered in Canada and nearby portions of the US.

  Flotilla of five kayaks and two canoes carries ten people down the Schuylkill River. They are seen here heading toward the west side of the Pennsylvania Route 61 bridge at West Hamburg. I was returning from a visit to the Kernsville Dam when I noticed them while driving across the State Street Bridge. I parked at the trailhead lot on the Hamburg side and hurried onto the bridge to catch this shot.

 

Spicebush Swallowtail surrounded by Eastern Tiger Swallowtails just outside the butterfly garden at the Kerny this spring.

  HARVESTORE silo being installed on the farm this spring. It was bought from a farm in western Maryland last fall. This year, it was dismantled, trucked to Pennsylvania, refurbished and set up.

  Tundra Swan - Cygnus colum- bianus - at the Kernsville Dam last Christmas. This is my only sighting of this species.

  Case 750K dozer I bought late last year being loaded on my lowboy trailer for the trip home. I had been looking for a Cat D5G, but this machine came up for auction with very low hours and fills a similar niche in our equipment fleet.