Another mountain wedding, another friend moves to Urbana

Trying to save our friend Katy from a lifetime of cornfields and Fighting Illini
You'd think the mountains would make her want to stay. She must really love that guy Dan.

Cool bugs

At Sugarloaf. we haven't figured out what these are yet.

Jug Bay

We tried to go to Jug Bay and see all the butterflies we saw last year but it seems we were a little early -- the Joe Pye Weed hadn't quite opened up yet. However we saw a clearwing hummingbird moth:



And this nice buckeye:



And went we went for a swim there was a newly emerged dragonfly on the underside of the dock.

And there were lots of tasty blackberries.

Summer bounty

They're coming in faster than we know what to do with them now.