Bears and their admirers, east and west: from Vermont, a paw print in the mud with 8-year-old Cyla’s paw for scale; from New Mexico, Weidemeyer’s Admiral butterflies, as beautiful on bear scat as on flowers.
Bears and their admirers, east and west: from Vermont, a paw print in the mud with 8-year-old Cyla’s paw for scale; from New Mexico, Weidemeyer’s Admiral butterflies, as beautiful on bear scat as on flowers.
WORLD-BUILDING and WILDERNESS: 
Love the butterflies on the bear poop
Me too! Gorgeously yecch. I’ve seen it once before, in the Jemez Mountains: a dozen bright yellow Tiger Swallowtails on glistening-fresh bear poop, looking as out of place as a flock of Tinkerbells.