WINTER BUTTERFLIES IN BOLINAS 



butterfly is large, measuring 

 between four and five inches 

 from tip to tip of outstretched 

 wings. 



When these butterflies ar- 

 rive, the air seems full of 

 them,hovering,flitting,whirl- 

 ing like brown autumn leaves 

 caught in a gust of wind. 

 Having reached their winter 

 home they swarm on a cypress 

 tree which affords the best 

 shelter during wind and 

 storm. Each year they come, 

 not only to the same grove, 



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