Brown eye butterfly

Common ringlet butterfly 

This Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia) butterfly was flitting through a meadow in northern Vermont, never staying on one flower for too long.  Eventually, it got close enough to capture lensatically this small brown butterfly with an "eye".  

Walnut yum

Hickory Tussock caterpillar 

A Hickory Tussock moth (Lophocampa caryae) caterpillar munching away on one of its favorite foods - a black walnut leaf.

Two flowers

Sometimes you do not know what kind of flower it is, it just is there.

A light purple lilac colored flower

Some type of a sunflower?

 They were growing in a field in way northern Vermont.

Update:  The first may be the "Common Soapwort" (Saponaria officinalis).  The second (yellow one) may be an "Ox Eye" (Heliopsis helianthoides).

 

Four water

Plain WATER 

Buffalo Repair Lid Water 

Mueller Water

NO 1 WATER 

Four more water utility covers:

- Plain WATER 

- Buffalo Repair Lid Water 

- Mueller Water, and

- NO 1 WATER  with the horseshoe "U" and a missing penta bolt.

Water water

Blue WATER WATER 

Rusty WATER WATER 

Having the water utility cover name appear two times on the cover makes it easy to discern the purpose of  the cover from either side of the cover.

Water inset

Generic water utility cover 

This generic water utility cover is inset in the concrete sidewalk of the street beneath our feet.

Water and bricks

The street beneath our feet was paved with bricks.  Seen amongst the bricks were these water utility access covers.

GFI WATER with horseshoe U 

WATER with two accesses 

CF-B WATER with two accesses 

TRUMBULL WATER 

These included: 

- a GFI WATER with projecting horseshoe ("U") protecting the pentagon shaped bolt head

- a plain WATER with two access cutouts

- a CF-B WATER with two access cutouts, and

- a TRUMBULL WATER with a pentagon shaped bolt head.  

That five sided bolt head (or screw head) is also called a "penta screw" or "penta bolt".

Worn water

Worn down water cover 

Seen in the street beneath our feet, this worn down water utility cover is just legible enough to tell us of its function.