Three days in a row of “firsts”! (But no predator-and-prey photo for today, MaryBeth!) This is an “Eastern Comma” (“Polygonia comma”), hence the character between the quotation marks of the title, resting on the edge of a large leaf of a banana plant in the outside garden adjacent to the greenhouse on campus. After yesterday’s “Question Mark,” apparently it’s “butterfly punctuation” week!
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...