As promised, some pictures from the butterflies' winter home in Santa Cruz. These give some sense of how many butterflies there were (although I'm told that it's nowhere near what it once was):

And a few pictures of the stars of the show:

Sadly, my camera was really not up to the task in terms of zoom; these only look like it was due to heavy cropping. Laura and I spent a lot of time looking enviously at other visitors with much more substantial lenses—in fact, Laura is looking at telephoto lenses for her digital Rebel as I write this, so maybe next year's crop of photos will be even better.

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