unsuually

Updated: May 21, 2025

One sunny morning climbing the hill on the way to the cardinals, with fresh plates in my cameras, and high hopes in my heart, I passed an unsuually large fine thistle, with half a dozen Thysbe moths fluttering over it as if nearly crazed with fragrance, or honey they were sipping. "Come here! Come here! Come here!" intoned the cardinal, from the sycamore of Rainbow Bottom.

Gene Stratton-Porter - Moths of the Limberlost