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    Butterfly Season

    Butterfly season, Every June after all the flower babies are in the ground and before they bloom my daughter and I head off on our annual mother daughter camping trip. This year we went to Chena Hot Springs just outside of Fairbanks. The weather was wonderful and warm, the hot springs refreshing but what stands out and what we marveled at was all the butterflies so many in fact June should be called butterfly season in Alaska. They were so thick they would sadly fly into our windshield. My favorite however was when the butterflies were drinking water from the ground by the outdoor potable water station. When you’d get close they would…