{"id":4074,"date":"2010-08-03T22:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T02:37:59","slug":"plainsboro-preserve-and-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Plainsboro Preserve and butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, Rich saw a little blurb in the newspaper that the “Environmental Education Center at the NJ Audubon Society” was presenting a talk on butterflies. Huh? He kept reading and announced that it was in Plainsboro. We’ve lived in this area for a long time, and neither of us had any idea that place existed.\u00a0 And, it’s not even 7 miles from where we live!\u00a0 We didn’t get there until about 4:45, and the talk concluded at 5, so we missed it.\u00a0 Even so, I was hungry to photograph some butterflies. Initially I saw one that was fluttering about a plant on the path to the Center, and I immediately started taking pictures.<\/p>\n

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After only snapping off some 6 shots, the butterfly flew away.\u00a0 We then went into the Center.\u00a0 Nice place.\u00a0 A person working there told me they had “zillions” of swallowtails and monarchs in the back area of the Center.\u00a0 She also explained that the Reserve was made up of over 1,000 acres and had\u00a0 over five miles of trails. She told us to stay on the trails and not venture through the trees to get to what we learned was one of the largest lakes in the area. Apparently many people were hurt doing so. Rather, she told us the trail that would eventually get there. We also learned about all of the wildflowers, the rare, and even endangered species of plants.\u00a0 I was eager to get outside to look for butterflies.\u00a0 The first thing we did was go behind the Center.\u00a0 We admired some of the wildflowers, but, darn, there were no butterflies to be found.<\/p>\n

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After a lot of walking, it was becoming apparent that the few butterfly photos I took earlier would be it.<\/p>\n

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When we eventually got to\u00a0 the lake, the lighting was very pretty and produced mirror reflections.<\/p>\n

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It was extremely peaceful.\u00a0 We sat at a bench on the lakes edge for some time just admiring it and enjoying the peace (and resting from the walk).\u00a0 We only passed one other person walking with two children during our entire walk.\u00a0 I suspect we’ll return again, and hopefully the next time we’ll see more of the “zillion” butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, Rich saw a little blurb in the newspaper that the “Environmental Education Center at the NJ Audubon Society” was presenting a talk on butterflies. Huh? He kept reading and announced that it was in Plainsboro. We’ve lived in this area for a long time, and neither of us had any idea that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-photos-butterflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}