July 18, 2023

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mantis, Cora and me, queen

July 17, 2023

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double-petal blanketflower

July 14, 2023

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checkered skipper on frog fruit, reakirt's blue, Cora, a queen laying eggs on milkweed

July 10, 2023

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Winnie (confined to the round pen temporarily after being treated for an abscessed tooth), mule bunny, mulemint blossom, short-horned slant-faced brickhopper, peekaboo whiptail

July 9, 2023

July 3, 2023

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a tiny foundling, a fiery skipper, and the ranch's newest resident, Lightfoot, a handsome, friendly 19-year-old 16 hands-high bay gelding

July 1, 2023

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Cora, gulf fritillary, small black-eyes susans