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lookagain day

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red admiral, painted lady, snout

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a lovely almost-december morning, mid-50s with sunshine and a light breeze, 

grooming Cora Sweetmule while robins

chirruped and gamboled in the trees nearby

and a cardinal watched over an old sorrel grazing in a neighboring field

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ladybug and queen

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a rain-battered reakirt's blue and a dainty sulphur

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muddy Cora, Texas gray moth (i think),

checkered skipper, skeleton weed (furled),

Casper and Nick, and Cora through the balloon vine

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Romeo, Cora, Reno and Boomer, and

the rain-washed arena at 10 a.m. and 40 degrees

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robin

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checkered skipper, desert wishbone, Cora

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she might get herself a little muddy now and again

but she's one of the sweetest creatures on the planet

and it's a blessing to know her

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 "When people, serious people, believe in you, they give you some of their best, so--take care of it..."

- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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