Holy sheets!
Nice looking butterflies. Interestingly enough, that Oregon Swallowtail stamp is what rekindled my interest in stamps early this summer. I had been reading about Oregon on the web and saw a picture of that stamp, Papilio oregonius. Found a set of two on
ebay and one thing led to another...
A few weeks later, while out fishing for trout on the Clackamas River here, I came upon on a muddy flat. In the middle of the clearing on the river bank, were over 50 of these same butterflies, dancing and having a splendid time in the summer sun. I had been carrying my camera around, with the fishing gear, all summer, but had left it in the car on this trip down to the water. It was really an amazing site to see so many butterflies dancing and frolicking...
Those two butterfly stamps have now made their ways into the wider world: one sent to my nephew in mint condition, though he unfortunately seems to have zero interest in stamps; the other graced a cover sent to my girlfriend, the contents of which was a single copy of the Amelia Earhart airmail...
Posted 09/04/2010 2:36 pm
,I do have one or two of them too.
