Butterflies

i love butterflies...

Red-Spotted Purple

and my butterfly garden brings all these lovely beauties to the yard

 they can't resist my buttterfly bush

also called summer lilac,

 or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae,

native to central China, and also Japan

 ...and this beauty showed up as well, been coming around for a while, now. She is a camera hound!

Swallowtail

 she loves striking posing,

and let's me come in close...