leps-l

[Anne Kilmer]

Jim Taylor wrote:

> Do all of you feel as gloomy as Ron re LEPS-L future?
> 
> Jim Taylor


good heavens, no. I have belonged to Leps-l since it was a wee thing 
infested with the same battlers that plague it now, and I am very fond 
of all of them. I would be so sorry if my friends drifted away, although 
I am a bit tired of cross-posts between TILS and Leps-L, for so many of 
us are subscribed to both, and those that are not, are that way on purpose.
But I don't think I feel as gloomy as Ron about anything else, either. 
He likes to sit far out on the end of the limb, and bounce, bless his 
heart.

It would be nice if Leps-l could be set to refuse attachments. A recent 
one tied up my computer for half an hour, and rather worried me. But 
many of my current spams were acquired from good-old TILS' list, when 
Yahoo decided to change everybody's preferences to 
SPAM-AT-WILL-THE-MORE-THE-MERRIER so if we're casting blame, hey, nobody 
is blameless.

Many of my leps-L buddies have become close friends, and we are now 
engaged in a joyous conspiracy to restore the Miami Blue Butterfly: 
Butterflies for Peace, complete with t-shirts and tote bags with 
beautiful art ... and on Earth Day, we hope everybody in the world will 
be wearing a Butterflies for Peace shirt, or at least looking at 
butterflies with pleasure.

http://www.risingdove.com/miamiblue/images.asp

As for the Miami Blue Crew, most of the charter members are leps-l 
enthusiasts. We haven't been hogging the show, lately, but from time to 
time we wink and nudge each other ...

I am about to depart on the Wind Surf for two weeks at sea, and will 
show up in Lisbon April 21 ... Dublin April 24 and will be back on line 
probably April 26. So I hope my email will be loaded with wonderful 
adventures and sightings when I return to it.
I hope Mark Walker will have gone some more places, I hope Chris Durden 
will have agreed or disagreed with someone, and that the fur is flying 
happily; I want to hear more about IBBA's Monarch tagging program, and I 
hope they and Monarch Watch between them get every child in North 
America (I include Mexico and Canada, I do, I do) out gardening for 
butterflies and watching for Monarchs and Painted Ladies.
I want to look at Royce Bitzer's map and see how far north the Painted 
Ladies have gone, and I'm hoping we get the rest of the world done, too.

I'm hoping more of us tell Colin about their Painted Ladies; there 
should surely be quite a few of them flying by now.
I will be carrying my Miami Blue Crew tote bag prominently on deck, and 
will stroll around Lisbon carrying it, so if you're looking for me, 
that's how you'll find me.

Ron's TILS list is delightful, and people feel free to prattle on about 
minutiae of nomenclature, or to rant about the unfairness of people who 
fail to perceive the excellence and necessity of collecting, and folks 
complain quite a bit about the dumbing down of lepidoptery, and do not 
spare the long hard words where appropriate, and many of my best friends 
hang out there, and it's a great, great clubhouse.

but it doesn't replace Leps-L, nor do I want it to.

I am about to change my preferences on the British lep thingie, and read 
their messages, which I don't do when I'm not in Ireland, because I 
don't do moths. And it stirs up my nostalgia too much.
I'll hang up Bob Parcelle's excellent Naturepotpourri, which he can 
often spell right, now, and maybe catch up on it later. But I'm leaving 
leps L to pile up in my mail box, because that's where I'll be wanting 
to look first.

Gloomy? Heck no. Just a spell of spring fever.
And lay off the cross postings, gang.
Now go find some Miami Blue Butterflies for me, so I can go off with a 
feeling of happy completion.
Thanks
Anne Kilmer
Viceroy
Butterfly Coalition


 
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