On Our Cover:

• Scroching Hot Summer Fun Inside with the Bay Weekly's Summer Guide
• From the Wings of A Butterfly

This Week's Lead Story:

From the Wings of a Butterfly
Learn a few distinguishing features, and you can identify 10 Chesapeake butterflies
by Vivian I. Zumstein

Features:

Buying Our First Boat
How one couple navigated this Chesapeake initiation
by Debra George Siedt

Winning Prizes for Our Advertisers
Besides building business, Bay Weekly ads collect awards
by Carrie Steele

Departments:

Editorial Letters to the Editor Bay Reflections

EarthTalk ~ Ecotourists Should Travel with a Light Touch

Dr. Gouin’s Bay Gardener ~ Too Mulch of a Good Thing

Way Downstream

Bill Burton ~ Muddying the Waters of Lewis and Clark’s River West

Tidelog® Sky Watch ~ Why is Mars red?; by J. Alex Knoll

Earth Journal ~ In the Swamp, Resurrections and Extinctions

8 Days a Week ~ Moonlight Troupers’ Lend Me a Tenor; by Dick Wilson

Music Scene

Curtain Call

Flickerings

Best of the Bay Online Ballot

Free Will Astrology©

News of the Weird©

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