Summer-like temps here today for “Augtober” (83F/28C)! #Wordless Wednesday #Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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39 Responses to Summer-like temps here today for “Augtober” (83F/28C)! #Wordless Wednesday #Pearl Crescent Butterfly

  1. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    October 4, 2023 at 6:50 am

    That’s a great photo! I LOVE the Augtober title, that’s super clever and very accurate description of the weather we’re having!! 😍🤩

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  2. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    October 4, 2023 at 11:08 am

    Nice butterfly pic. Nice to have weather. . Autober the tittle. I like.

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  3. Anne Mehrling's avatar Anne Mehrling says:
    October 4, 2023 at 11:49 am

    Gorgeous! We’re having warm weather right now, but it’s going to cool off soon.

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  4. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com's avatar Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    October 4, 2023 at 11:53 am

    Love “Augtober”! We had a cooler-than-normal August and it’s been lovely here lately (high 70s/low 80s) so I guess we are in Augtober too. Enjoy your warm days… it will be cold soon enough. 

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 4, 2023 at 8:26 pm

      Thanks Janis – today was the final day and it felt good to soak up the sun while on my walk as tomorrow reality sets back in and by the weekend drop 30 degrees!

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  5. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    October 4, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    Well that’s just backwards, now isn’t it Linda? Down here in the South we turned the corner on summer in mid-September. Like some of your other comments, it’ll now be 70s at best well into 2024. Fine by me 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 4, 2023 at 8:30 pm

      Yes, we have pretty crazy weather stats these days Dave and today is the last day of warmth. Tomorrow reality sets in and we will drop 30 degrees! I like the 70s best too – last weekend in the 80s was really too hot for this time of year especially with humidity in the 90-degree range, just like you have in Summer!

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  6. TD's avatar TD says:
    October 4, 2023 at 12:39 pm

    Augtober is creative, Linda! It accurately describes our weather here in Corpus Christi TX. Promise of a cold front overnight dropping low to 60 with high in the 80’s.

    Those butterfly’s antennas are very interesting. Pretty color for fall wordless Wednesday.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 4, 2023 at 8:36 pm

      Thanks TD – I did kind of borrow it from a weather forecaster to be honest, as we have been experiencing a very hot and humid week; tomorrow we enter a 30-degree drop in temps and heavy rain, thankfully in the afternoon, so I can salvage a walk. I went back and looked – yes, they were really visible weren’t they? I wish it had landed in a nicer area than the weeds and gravel on the trail. I originally thought I’d save it for closer to Halloween due to its coloring, but decided to use it for this heat spell. Did you notice Barbara had the same butterfly last week on her walk?

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      • TD's avatar TD says:
        October 4, 2023 at 9:47 pm

        I think the gray rocks give a good neutral color and adds contrast texture. Yes. I did notice Barbara had her first sighting of this butterfly too. Fun!

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        October 5, 2023 at 8:39 pm

        Mostly you see butterflies on a flower, but this is the second butterfly (not a common butterfly here) I’ve found on a gravel path. Both alive but just resting or sunning themselves. We were comparing notes on Barbara’s post about both seeing one at the same time.

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  7. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    October 4, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Great weather right now!

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  8. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    October 4, 2023 at 9:42 pm

    Aug-tober! Funny, Linda. Feels like we’re have the same weather. Should change here next week!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 5, 2023 at 8:37 pm

      Yes, that’s what it’s been like here Terri but I did borrow that phrase that I kept seeing on social media. So I’ll ‘fess up to that. We had a heavy rain this afternoon, so tomorrow it will be brrrr and a chance for frost next week. Very crazy weather.

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  9. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    October 5, 2023 at 8:00 am

    Love your pearl crescent capture, Linda! At least yours is right side up. 😉 It will be interesting to see if we start seeing more of these petite beauties in the years to come.

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  10. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    October 5, 2023 at 11:21 pm

    I have never seen a butterfly like this, I was going to ask you if it was real. You are amazing the way you capture so much beautiful nature pictures like this Linda!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 6, 2023 at 7:28 pm

      Thanks Diane! It was my first sighting of this type of butterfly and I only learned its name by doing a Google image search. Because it was on the ground, I had a great opportunity to photograph it. I wish it had “posed” somewhere nicer than on the gravel, next to a weed. 🙂

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  11. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    October 6, 2023 at 4:24 am

    Great shot, Linda! It’s a rather small species, but very beautiful nonetheless.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 6, 2023 at 7:39 pm

      Thanks Tom – it was a first for me seeing this petite butterfly. I wish it had picked a nicer place to to land, other than on the gravel, next to a weed, but it was a treat to see it.

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  12. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    October 6, 2023 at 11:26 am

    We’ve had a warmer than normal week here, too. When do we get real fall weather?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 6, 2023 at 7:48 pm

      Well our Fall finally arrives tomorrow Ally, First they said a 30-degree drop in temps and now it’s a 40-degree drop in some areas of the Lower Peninsula; snow in the Upper Peninsula. That’s just crazy. I like Fall just as you do, but in nice gentle increments of a chill in the air. A weather forecaster quipped we could wear a Winter coat this weekend and not look out of place.

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  13. Timelesslady's avatar Timelesslady says:
    October 7, 2023 at 12:25 pm

    Beautiful butterfly.

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  14. J P's avatar J P says:
    October 13, 2023 at 1:53 am

    I will join the others who love your use of “Augtober”. Fall showed up with a hard snap last weekend, so no more butterflies here.

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