Two old (or old- fashioned) naturalists, and new photo series

Two old farts in the bar courtyard. John Wilson is an old style bug catching (or photographing) "stamp collector" naturalist like me, an Ohioan who retired from an Audubon sanctuary there to a remote homestead in the Mags-- somebody I can talk bugs, birds, and taxonomy with! Luckily he likes beer too. I am starting a local insect of the week photo with him though I expect as it gets colder it will become feeder bird or plant or...?

Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, at 7000 feet in November: