Saturday, August 11, 2012

Island View

Staghorn sumac fills the foreground of this view of Peddocks Island from Nut Island in Houghs Neck.   Nut Island is a 5-acre former island in Boston Harbor that was joined by landfill to Quincy's Houghs Neck peninsula in the 1940s for use as a sewage treatment facility.
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Summer Attraction

This tiger swallowtail butterfly was a delight to see pollinating the phlox bed along my driveway.  

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