Friday, July 24, 2015

Butterfly


Ready?



Set?



WOW!



I pruned the butterfly bush and, rather than just dump the cuttings in the compost, put them in a bucket of water on the deck, which they made smell amazing for a couple days.  And a short while after I put them on the deck, this butterfly showed up.  For more than an hour it was going back and forth between feeding on the flowers, and fluttering in circles around the deck, always returning for more nectar...

3 comments:

Sue said...

I don't know which is prettier, the butterfly or the butterfly bush!

anne marie in philly said...

@sue: BOTH are gorgeous!

Jeph said...

This type of butterfly (perhaps even THIS butterfly!?) has been showing up A LOT lately... We've also got a lot of the others - tiger swallowtail, black swallowtail, fritillary, etc but this one has really been standing out!