Pearl Crescent

The butterfly season is just now starting to get into high gear, and this afternoon, on the way home from a potential woodcutting job, I decided to stop by the Assekonk Swamp area around the high school to, well, check in on the natural history comings and goings of a habitat that, pre-coronavirus, would have been my environmental stomping ground with all four of the sixth grade classes I'd have been teaching. School, of course, is out, except virtually, but the land- and water-scape that the Assekonk encompasses hasn't gotten the shelter-in-place message... this Pearl Crescent lepidopteran in particular. PCs are pretty little gems, and, in our region, they're probably the most common butterfly. I'll typically spot at least one or two every time I walk into the woods, and while they're only recently out for viewing, the Pearls didn't let me down on this trek. This one's a bit less highly ornamented than usual, but subtlety has never been the enemy of true beauty.