{2004 Hurricane Francis - Our Garden Before and After}

• On September 7 of 2004, Hurricane Francis did 'visit' us briefly... and things never looked the same in our garden. 
• Our triple stem River Birch got severely damaged and had to be cut down. Sad to see them go down that way by brutal force!

• This photo is taken from our balcony, before Francis did strike us...
• The sky looks 'pregnant' (zwangere lucht) and the water is about to break.

• There goes our 13 year old river birch with its unusual triple stem.

• Deadly wounded so Pieter had to put it out of its misery...
• What a green grass we had then! Now it is all dead, like in winter time.

Related link:
{Our Damage from Tornado spin off of Hurricane Earl, 2003} | previous post by me

{Out of Body Experience}

Pieter did find this huge butterfly 'part' and it seemed it has had an 'out of body experienc'... Probably something quite nasty has happened and it might have been eaten by something?! Does anyone have an idea about this? Would love to know. By the way, this is a Giant Swallowtail  -Papilio cresphontes Cramer, 1777 Butterfly, one of the two largest butterflies in the USA. It's span measured 14 cm or 5½".

Underside...

What could have happened to this beautiful butterfly...?

Once it also looked like this...

Related link:

Giant Swallowtail - Papilio cresphontes Cramer, 1777 | Butterflies and Moths of North America

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