Finding Butterflies and Other Wildness

Sure to be a visual and intellectual delight! Local author David Lee Myers’ new book “Wings in the Light: Wild Butterflies in North America,” encourages us to engage nature in our own yards, countrysides, and wildish public lands. Photographs feature butterflies and habitats across North America, emphasizing those near his home territory.

Myers will show slides from his book, especially butterflies of the Rogue-Siskiyou area and the majestic Monarchs. He’ll read from “Wings in the Light” about going out and looking around—how and where to find butterflies and other wildness—and on the rewards for doing so.

David Lee Myers was raised by a scientist father and artist mother. Settling in the Pacific Northwest, he combined his heritages into natural history photography. Teaching college, helping students find their own voices expressing the joys, challenges, and sorrows of life was a great satisfaction.