Wordless Wednesday: Black Swallowtail on lantana
Open Season (Joe Pickett #1) by C.J. Box - A review
I was introduced to the writing of C.J. Box through my local library's Mystery Book Club. Open Season , the first in Box's Joe Pickett series, was the club's selection for reading in June. Although I didn't get a chance to read it in time for the meeting, the discussion of it made me curious and I put it on my to-be-read list. I'm glad I finally got around to it this week. Box has created an enormously appealing character in Joe Pickett. A Wyoming game warden, Joe is a devoted family man with two young daughters and a pregnant wife when we first meet him. He and his family are able to barely scrape by financially on the meager salary of a state employee (Been there, done that!) , but Joe is a happy man, because he's living his dream. Being a game warden was what he always wanted to be. Not only Joe but his whole family are lovingly drawn by Box. We get to know them well and to like them and want them not just to endure but to triumph. Seven-year-old Sherid
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ReplyDeleteThis is the adult version of the caterpillar that I featured in my Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day post.
DeleteWow! I wish I could take pics of butterflies! I've taken pics of flowers with bees and other bugs on them, but I've never been lucky enough to capture a butterfly or a dragonfly in flight.
ReplyDeleteYou sorta have to get lucky. I probably take at least ten for every one that's a keeper.
DeleteBeautiful pictures, Dorothy. All butterflies have left my gardens now; frost is thick on the ground. P x
ReplyDeleteWe don't usually get our first frost until December so I hope to be able to enjoy them for several more weeks.
DeleteBeautiful! We got some snow yesterday and our first frost today. So our growing season is over. (and yet I saw a butterfly today, perhaps a late monarch).
ReplyDeleteSnow? Wow! Isn't it a bit early for that?
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