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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Butterfly Summer

This morning, we watched a hummingbird fly around on the patio while we ate breakfast.
It was pretty amazing.

Quincy has a pop up book that she got for her first birthday from Mark and Melinda called "Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer" that she loves. The caterpillar eats all spring, and emerges as a butterfly when summer arrives. We are definitely having a "butterfly summer" here!

I had no idea that oregano, marigolds, and sunflowers attract butterflies, but we have quite the butterfly garden out back because of them.

I spy 3 butterflies in this picture. Q identified the buckeye on the left.







A Black swallowtail. These infest Bella Vista every year. So pretty!



2 comments:

Mamarazzi said...

so awesome!! i knew that about those flowers. when Ramona Starkweather found out we were releasing butterflies at our wedding she planted a TON of butterfly attracting flowers in her yard in the hopes they would stick around.

Myya said...

Gorgeous! I love butterflies! The girls & I raised a set of 6 last year, it was awesome. I can't wait to do it again. These are really neat, I don't know that I've ever seen this kind.