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CWilbur

@CWilbur@sfba.social

Nope. This isn’t science fiction; no dystopian future. This is here… now. I’m past opining, but willing to converse on any subject that improves lives. #Volcanology, #Petrology, #SW #Engineer, #System Architect, and #SciFi #writer; I really dig #butterflies. Especially the tiny ones. Walker in the Rain. #CowboyBebop

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At Mission Trails today #butterflying. Don’t ever try this, thinking you’re going to just zoom back up to north county in the afternoon. 🙄
Anyway the Blues showed up out there. Multiple species. All of them terrbly camera-shy today, so my pix are atrocious and not very definitive. That said, I’ve narrowed the field somewhat. The first two pix are I believe to be either Western Tailed Blue or Reakirt’s Blue. The final two are of a Marine Blue. That one I know. #butterflies

Same WT Blue taking off.
Marine Blue rests on Broom.
Marine Blue nectaring trailside in Broom.

CWilbur,
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More #butterfly action at Mission Trails

A very shiny Blue, passing by under foot.
Checkered White, resting in dry grass.
Mourning Cloak in attack formation. They are major contenders for most aggressive butterfly.

sundogplanets, to random
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Story time!

One thing I absolutely love about living here is the way that neighbours helping neighbours is deeply ingrained in the culture of rural farms here.

Last night, just as I was about to go to bed, our neighbour called: "You guys have a tiny horse, right? Is your tiny horse in with my cows?"

OH NO. My tiny horses are ancient and not very ambitious, but maybe something scary happened and part of a fence fell down? We walked quickly through our neighbour's cow pasture to see.

CWilbur,
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@sundogplanets It's like that. 😬

mekkaokereke, to random
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Just throwing it out there now, preemptively: any suspect flags you see hanging from my house, any insurrections that I may or may not have taken part in, any World War II or civil war memorabilia that you may find prominently displayed in my house...

My wife did it! Blame her! That woman doesn't know how to act!

CWilbur,
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@mekkaokereke Did you get your wife’s permission to post this??? 😸

CWilbur, to random
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Some nice observations of during an excursion to Orange County today. “Vanilla” species.

This Tiger Swallowtail dances around what appears to be Lantana blossoms.
Monarch floats over Milkweed.
Orange Sulphur female bolts from her grassy hideaway.

dgar, to random
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Me: What are you drinking?

Them: Soy milk.

Me: Hola Milk, yo soy padre.

CWilbur,
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@dgar “Soooooy un perdedor. I’m a loser, baby. So why don’t you kill me. “. 🤤

CWilbur, to random
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Headed out to a new location for #butterflies today. A place called Daley Ranch, in northeast Escondido. It was an interesting day: Relatively few species, but tons of individuals. Lots of Metalmarks, lots of Cabbage Whites, and multiple Swallowtails, and even two probable Sisters. But the real story was Buckeyes, dozens of them. They were so common they were fighting each other in groups of three or four. I stopped playing attention to them after a while.

Buckeye leaves the ground, leaving its shadow behind.
Buckeye on the ground, wings partly open.
My first sighting of the day: A lovely Tiger Swallowtail, nectaring in its usual fluttery fashion, beside the trail.

CWilbur,
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Did not get pix of the Sisters unfortunately, but predictable in that they were in their element: the tops of Oak trees. I also saw what I believe to be a Pale Swallowtail, but way too far away to photograph. Oh yeah, a Mourning Cloak, that I was able to snag a shot from farish, since he was stationed in a patch of Poison Oak.

CWilbur,
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I love this guy!!! #butterfly

A Tiger Swallowtail feeds on a Thistle flower.

CWilbur,
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What was interesting in a way is that the vegetation was quite similar to what I see near my home, and as a result the #butterfly species were the same, even though it was miles further east. I think I’m going to have to hit the desert to see different species.

Binder, to random
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Hey, did Huey Lewis ever score that new drug or

CWilbur,
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@Binder Yes but then Lene Lovich found a New Toy. 😸

CWilbur, to random
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Not a great day for near the coast. Blame .
But I did see this guy. There were two actually.

Roadrunner on a metal fence, clacking away.

CWilbur,
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@cvvhrn People are strange, are they not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtxIk4LThmc

CWilbur,
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@cvvhrn I’m doing a lot of 80’s stuff these days.

CWilbur, to random
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Sometimes you have to look at every frame of your video. Here a hairstreak zips by the camera lens. One frame. Adjacent frames have nothing.

CWilbur, to random
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Hit the trail again today at Elfin Forest and I didn’t see a single rattlesnake. However I did see #butterflies, which is what I came for. Finally the spring butterbirds came out!

Desert Sylvan Hairstreak perched on spring foliage.
Desert Sylvan Hairstreak perched on spring foliage.

CWilbur,
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Next up on the sequence, the tiny Dainty Sulphur, who was camera-shy as usual.

Dainty Sulphur, wings partly closed.
Dainty Sulphur and its shadow on the trail.

CWilbur,
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The observations continued. More Hairstreaks. I’m pretty sure these are Hedgerow Hairstreaks.

Closeup view of our Bronzed Hedgerow Hairstreak hanging out on some Sage flowers.
Bronzed Hedgerow Hairstreak perched on Chamise flowers.
Bronzed Hedgerow Hairstreak captured in flight A messy photo, but clearly shows the bronze interior wings and black scent scales.

CWilbur,
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Okay, one last entry in the #butterfly sequence: Bernardino Blue. The little bugger wouldn’t open his wings while perched!

Bernardino Blue perched on a Broom plant, or maybe Buckwheat.
Bernardino Blue is one of the smaller Blues, but has the distinctive orange arrow highlighting and a rather prominent metallic sheen to the outer wings.

cvvhrn, to aar
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NKAWTG USAF KC-46 Pegasus 21-46084 as ZPHYR44 takes the option at Travis AFB, April 2025 #travis #tanker #travisafb #pegasus #KC46 #NKAWTG #refuling #AAR #aviationphotography #planespotting #AvGeek #spotter #aviationdaily #photography #Nikon

CWilbur,
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@cvvhrn 2025? Da Future!! 😺

talia_christine, to random
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I have a theory that the men who reply to posts with some version of "not all men" do so because they see some of themselves in whatever statement was made and they don't like it.

CWilbur,
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@talia_christine Yup, probably defensive.

CWilbur, to random
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Unless the Alitos were genuinely in distress, the upside-down flag must have been hung that way symbolically. This can only mean that either the neighbors should (1) have called an ambulance or (2) rightly assume that the Alitos were siding with the insurrectionists. There isn't another way to see it. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/25/politics/samuel-alito-wife-upside-down-flag/index.html

imnotyet, to animals
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My husbands favorite chair,both cat and him
snoring.

CWilbur,
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@imnotyet Lol.
I was just doing this.
The cat’s still there.

ProPublica, to random
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A New Mexico judge has lifted a temporary order that had stopped the city of Albuquerque from throwing away the possessions of homeless people without providing notice and an offer to store their belongings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-lifts-order-albuquerque-homeless-encampments

CWilbur,
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@chargrille @ProPublica Let me clarify: Big Business doesn't need help in the process of accumulating wealth from poor people. The government shouldn't be allowed to take money from big business. Their big (possibly primary) job is to protect the public from big business and its effects, and to direct businesses in more positive directions.

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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1/6 Communism, in its purest form, is a classless, stateless society where the means of production are communally owned, and all people have equal access to resources. Marx and Engels envisioned this as the final stage of historical development, following capitalism and socialism. In a true communist society, the state would "wither away" because it would no longer be needed to mediate class conflicts or manage economic resources.

CWilbur,
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@aeleoglyphic @Radical_EgoCom This is incorrect. Humans are responsible for killing off their earlier forms - from australopithicus to neandertalus.

We kept raising the bar on ourselves. It's been a rat race for millions of years. Even our closest relatives beat each other up.

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