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Eliza Waters 
Lovely, lovely!
Thank you, Laurie. Always a pleasure to spot one flitting through the garden. 🙂
Love him!
Thank you, Cindy!
Divine 🦋
Indeed… thanks, Karen!
A very welcome visitor indeed!
Our largest butterfly and plentiful here, always a pleasure to see them.
Beautiful!!!!
Thank you!
Welcome, indeed!
Btw, thought you might be interested in this just issued by the U.S. Weather National Service…
Yes, I saw that… not a welcome distinction, ha!
🙂
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Lovely visitor. I’ve seen one this year. Our biggest visitor this year has been dragon flies, lots and lots of them.
Thank you, Judy. They are pretty common here, as are dragonflies. So many mosquitoes with all the rain, I suspect they are feasting!
A pretty, well-worn traveler.
Yes, he has been around the barn a few times, I suspect!
Good capture!
Thank you! 🙂
Thankful for the winged creatures who share their lives with us
Yes, indeed! Beauty abounds.
Very pretty! I’ve been seeing lots of them down here, too.
Thanks, Barbara… They are pretty common here, I finally decided to actually record one. 🙂
To paraphrase the sort-of-famous saying from a certain film, “If you plant it, they will come.”
True… I plant and they do come! 🙂
Now that is perfect for Silent Sunday!
Thank you, Dale! x
😊
Aah, beautiful!
Thanks, Cathy!
Fabulous!
Thank you, Monika!
A wonderful click. I saw one just like it on our hike yesterday but it was fluttering about too quickly for me to click. 😊
Thank you, Pepper. This ligularia must be particularly tasty, as he lingered long at it.
Always lovely to see a swallowtail! Thanks for sharing him here, Eliza.
That’s one visitor no one would turn away. I finally got a few photos of a butterfly yesterday, a gulf fritillary. The zinnias deserve all the credit.
True, Kris! While I’ve seen many butterflies, I’ve not made the effort to photograph them. This ST made it easy, he was quite absorbed in feeding off this ligularia.
It’s amazing how this Swallowtail was still flying after missing a good part of its wings!
Yes, it is. I read that those tails are adaptations for escape from predators, like lizards forfeiting a tail for a chance of escape.
Lovely visitor and shot!!🙂
Thank you, S!
Very nice, Eliza! They are such beautiful butterflies.
Thank you, Belinda, they surely are!
Lovely swallowtail and great composition.
Thank you, Susie!
gorgeous
Thank you, Sylvia!
Very nice Eliza! Beautiful image!
Thank you, Reed!
Beautiful … ti knows what it likes … Eliza’s Garden!
Thanks, Denise. The best all-you-can-eat cafe in town! 😉
Beauty, Eliza! 😍
Thank you, Jane. Our flashiest butterfly!