?Random acts of shooting? between Frazier Park and Pine Mountain this past week yielded photos of the changing colors of the season. Lake of the Woods (bottom left) is transforming with flaming colors into Lake of the Beautiful Woods. Pine Mountain?s Woodland Drive (right) is lined with trees in full fall regalia
By Katy Penland
Fall colors in our valleys contrast beautifully with the wonderfully rainy and gray skies sweeping across the mountains. As leaves turned bright orange, red and yellow, glowing clouds of Painted Lady butterflies also fluttered through our Mountain Communities last week.
They are on the last leg of their southward migration to the Sonora Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border where they’ll spend the winter.
In spring, these beauties come north again through Inyo-Kern Counties to breed in California’s Central Valley. The resulting crop of butterflies will continue to the Pacific Northwest where they’ll breed yet again. By next November, maybe we’ll see the great-great-grandbaby of this Lady passing through.
This is part of the November 07, 2008 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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