November is usually a brilliant month. There is something about the fall sunlight on the colored leaves and flowers that shows them at their best. Bright contrast and details of leaves not seen with the chlorophyll present. I'm pairing the last rose of fall with the first camellia to bloom and 'John Clayton' honeysuckle that has some blooms all year long.  Happy Thanksgiving.

The word for Wednesday is ephemeral: fleeting, short-lived, impermanent. Two examples: the web of the zipper spider or Argiope aurantica and the spider herself.

Caterpillars change and grow by spitting their skin. A new, larger one is under the old, tight skin. They change through several instars (stages). Then they weave a cocoon and change into a moth. This is the caterpillar of the Pandorus Sphinx. It is a beautiful, large moth, a feeder on night-blooming plants (such as the Moon Flower Datura in the thumbnail photo) with a proboscis (tongue) about four inches long.

The Pandorus Sphinx has good protective coloration because it blends in with its surroundings.

Pandorus