THE MILKWEED AND THE BUTTERFLY FIR TREES (686-3482)

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A box elder tree comes into view during a misty summer morning that brings mystery and suspense along with a colorful sunrise while walking the trails at Wildflower Park in Northern Illinois

Wild hyacinth

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This was a beautiful and remarkable landscape scene to have witnessed and photographed

THE MILKWEED AND THE BUTTERFLY FIR TREES (686-3482)After photographing the wildflowers with the misty sunrise scenes at Wildflower Park, I focused on some of the wildlife in the park. I switched out the nikkor 105mm macro lens from photographing the swamp milkweed plant to my nikkor 300mm f4 to capture any wildlife that would come close enough. I was coming up to an area of the park with some common milkweed along the trail and was in high hopes of seeing a monarch butterfly or two. My high hopes came