Showing posts with label monarch butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monarch butterfly. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

A guest photographer.......


I was out taking a few pictures and while I was near the zinnia patch I counted five monarchs  feeding on the blooms.  I know my wife loves butterflies so I just quit shooting and sent her out to take a few shots.

Of course she got this beauty of a shot with two butters feeding at the same time.  The migration hasn't really started yet that goes through here but this is a sign that it might be soon. With our extreme cold last night, almost freezing, they had better get going and get out of the state.

Silver Maple

 The old silver maple has lost its leaves and it looks pretty much forlorn. We had five of these trees at our old place back in 1976. Throug...