I stumbled upon a large group of butterflies on a short afternoon hike yesterday. The hike was at Skylight Pond Trail in the Green Mountain National Forest near Ripton, Vermont. Trail info I have been exploring alot in the Breadloaf area. The Breadloaf Writers Conference is an annual retreat for writers in the Green Mountains hosted by Middlebury College. It is famous for being where Robert Frost spent his summers and taught for 42 years.
I did see some of the summer residents at Breadloaf but was more intereste in the butterflies. There were dozens of butterflies. And upon taking some time to look around, literally butterflies all around. Interesting the different colors on the bottom and top of the wings. The first picture above shows the bottom of the wings.
Here is a view of the top of the wings.
And here's my favorite shot showing both the top and bottom of the wings on butterflies side by side 🙂 kind of an inverse pattern
The butterfly was the White Admiral - Limenitis arthemis. More info here on iNaturalist.
Finally here's a photo that better shows how many of these butterfiles were gathered around. I suspect they are not discussing poetry 😜
