Monarch Butterflies. Coronado Butterfly Preserve, Goleta, CA
In early February, Art and I did a short trip to Santa Barbara, about two hours north of our home in Los Angeles. Art gave a talk at UC Santa Barbara, and while he was doing that, I visited the Coronado Butterfly Preserve in Goleta with friends who live locally. Luckily they knew just where to go--at the usual spot in Elwood Grove the butterflies were gone, but after following the path for another ten minutes or so, we found them–giant dark clusters hanging high in the eucalyptus trees and hundreds more butterflies fluttering in the sunlight.
