Rayetta's Butterflies - Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)

Here it is, the last day of November of the Julian, the wind is supersonic, the wind chill is epic. And what do I find hunkered down, thermoregulating in the leaf litter of the formerly cultivated area? A new butterfly for the month at the CB, that's what! How about that? It is a largish butterfly and on this day, tame. So that's 1- - 1 on the Rayetta scales. In fact, this painted lady may be not merely tame, but dead. However, it looked alive to me.