They're coming!
BUTTERFLIES: The annual flyby by butterflies of the painted lady variety is underway. The Daily News makes an important distinction clear: "Visually similar but smaller than the more familiar monarch butterfly, the painted lady -- vanessa cardui -- is the world's most widely seen butterfly." But the story also has either a poorly constructed notion or a poorly constructed sentence:
Perhaps that is meant to suggest that Wienhuis had seen his first one Mar 8 while he was looking, rather than saying because he was looking, that day, he saw the very first one.
BUTTERFLY FESTIVAL: A segue here to mention the street fair coming May 21 & 22 in Reseda Park --- so named for reasons like the story above. And a segue from there to the METAMORPHOSIS ARTS FAIR, adjunct to the Butterfly Festival, so named for reasons like the different implied expectations of artwork submitted to jury in a contest for a $1,000 prize.
Painted ladies were first seen in the Valley on March 8 by Bob Wienhuis, a Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital employee who has been tracking the insects for a University of Iowa researcher.
Perhaps that is meant to suggest that Wienhuis had seen his first one Mar 8 while he was looking, rather than saying because he was looking, that day, he saw the very first one.
BUTTERFLY FESTIVAL: A segue here to mention the street fair coming May 21 & 22 in Reseda Park --- so named for reasons like the story above. And a segue from there to the METAMORPHOSIS ARTS FAIR, adjunct to the Butterfly Festival, so named for reasons like the different implied expectations of artwork submitted to jury in a contest for a $1,000 prize.
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