Went up to Callaway Gardens yesterday to meet at the Day Butterfly Center. I've written recently about going up to CG as a volunteer, and helping with a Monarch workshop. The guy who was the instructor is the director of the Butterfly Center - amazingly smart, and a fount of information. If I had only been taking the class, and not already enrolled in the CG program, he was so impressive, I'd have said: where do I sign up?
We strolled through the Sibley Center. And saw lots of pretty holiday decorations. A big beautiful tree, obviously designed as a photo op, with seating for the 'family Christmas shot', and lots of really neat topiaries: as in freight train, with packages and caboose, smoke billowing from the stack (artemisia, a grey perennial that looked remarkably like actual smoke.)
Those banana trees you might notice in the background, had huge bunches of green bananas on them. I had to wonder when they get ripe, if they take them over to the Butterfly Center, and let the insects feed on them? If you walk through, you will see over-ripe bananas lying in the feeders, and insects patiently sucking them up with their long skinny proboscis - so it is something they apparently love to eat.
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