and for the butterflies

on the wing:

Blues, looking like Silvery Blues

Whites,

Sulphurs, one, it looked like a Giant Sulphur

and then there is that black one that i have seen a lot,but can't figure out what it could be, it does have an orange spot somewhere.

and i did meet a Mourning Cloak last week, looking pretty spiffy, not as in worn down after a long hibernation.

 Every day we are eating fireweed shoots, but i also like to get a spring meal of coltsfoot flowershoots in every spring. Not so, this year. I saw a few munched on flowershoots at elfin creek, and only two flowers at my favorite patch, the leaves were already coming up.