2019 - Day 191/174 - Wednesday...Septentrional...

Coitus Monarchus Interruptus. Or as Vera would say, "Well, STARE!" I swear that as I was walking to put the girls to bed last night, this was one butterfly lighting on one of the shepherd's hooks. As I waited (and stared with my photo finger at the ready), it/they became a). a set of conjoined butterflies or a copulating pair. Personally, I am going with the copulating pair theory. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. You just never know what amazing things you might run up on out on the Edge of Nowhere.

Septentrional -- Adjective. northern. "The septentrional regions have always been regarded by Europeans of more southerly latitudes as cold and forbidding." David Kirby, Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period, 1990

Did You Know? Look to the northern night skies for the origin of septentorional. The Latin Septentriones (or Septemtriones) refers to the seven stars in Ursa Major that make up the Big Dipper, or sometimes to the seven stars in Ursa Minor that comprise the Little Dipper. Because of the reliable northerly presence of these stars, Septentriones was extended to mean "northern quarter of the sky," or simply "the north"-hence, our borrowed adjective septentrional, meaning "northern." The noun septentrion also appears in works in Middle and Early Modern English to designate "northern regions" or "the north." In Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, for example, the Duke of York rebukes Queen Margaret, saying: "Thou are as opposite to every good...as the South to the Septentrion."