Meanwhile, Back Upstream

I think it's time for a bit of a change both because I need some more time to take photos of spines and prickles and because there is so much happening with autumn's progression. I will have at least a couple more posts on "sharp pointy things" hopefully in the not too distant future.

For the next series of posts, we return upstream to the beginning of the Mission Reach at Roosevelt Park. I guess it is appropriate to begin with a Painted Lady on Halloween, but this Painted Lady wasn't wearing a costume:

This Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly is enjoying nectar from one of the asters in the first four photographs and then it flew over to some Prairie Goldenrod in the last five photos. Painted Lady butterflies use numerous plants as larval host plants including many in the Asteraceae Family. Both the aster and the goldenrod in these photos are in the Asteraceae Family.

This set of photographs was taken along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River near the Roosevelt Park Trailhead on Thursday, October 31, 2013.