Eight butterflies. Can you spot them all?

Glen Cove, Pikes Peak treeline, on Sedum rhodanthum flowers.

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J. Miller Adam says:

August 14, 2019 at 4:35 pm

Where are you finding sedum at Glen Cove? I drive up there every day now for Grayline… I see some bluebells peeking out in the background. Those I see all over but never the sedum…

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1. Samuel A. Johnson says:
  
  August 15, 2019 at 2:41 am
  
  Sedum is abundant along the stream that runs below the Cove. You have to cross the big parking lot on the right (going up) and down the hill to the stream, then turn downstream for about fifty or a hundred yards. There’s huge patches of it right at the water’s edge, and always covered with butterflies of many species. Great little spot.
  
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Well, many years ago, before computers and the internet, I wrote a short story about a man who carried an enormous length of garden hose up a mountain with the goal of starting a siphon to run water from a lake to his cabin below. His only friend, a water attorney (?!?!), warned him that stealing water could get him in a lot of trouble. But, undeterred by this cautionary advice, he proceeded to climb to the lake and start the siphon. Meanwhile, his friend cooked breakfast in the cabin below. By the time the hose was hooked up, his friend had set fire to the kitchen and lost control of his wits. Just when it looked like the cabin would be burned to ashes, the hose began blasting water, and he was able to save the house. This was the first of several short-short stories in a series that I called Mountain Breakfast, in which each tale involved cooking or eating breakfast in the wild. It was all about humans, all about nature, and all about human nature. I’m still at it, still hiking and thinking and writing tales, although they’re longer now, and not about eating breakfast.

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