Showing posts with label Spicebush Swallowtail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spicebush Swallowtail. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Chasing a Butterfly Around the Yard....

...a couple of days ago. It's a Spicebush Swallowtail and it was very fluttery; usually they will sit still for a moment to have their portrait taken. This one was having none of it--I have about 20 frames of blurry yellow spots.   Yesterday, without my camera, as I was surveying the progress of the flowers, a Red Admiral flew up and landed on me; it rode along for a while. Sweet.

To Remember Dad's 103rd Birth Anniversary, Something Different

 My Grandparents on my Dad's side were both "bonus babies", kids who were born to much older parents, long after they expected...