10/05/26

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  Starting off the week with a butterfly I was able to capture recently.  I have finally seen a few more around than I had been.  This is a Red Admiral enjoying the Autumn Sedum in my garden.

 

04/18/24

 Today's photo is one that I took almost a year ago now on a visit to the Overland Park Arboretum.  They have these beautiful Allium flowers that grow beside a pond there.  I admired them so much I have planted some at home which are beginning to come up and I look forward to having them closer.  On this particular visit, I got lucky because there were butterflies around that day and I got lucky and captured a Red Admiral butterfly flying towards a group of blooms.

12/28/23

 We had snow again and it's very wintry now so wishing spring was here.  I felt like a nice butterfly shot for the day.  This one had a bonus of a Honeybee as well coming in to enjoy the Crab Apple blossoms.  The butterfly is one of the earliest I usually see in spring, a Red Admiral.

11/27/23

 Happy Monday and new week!  I thought I would start off the week with a butterfly.  This is from this past spring and is of the butterfly I usually get to see first, a Red Admiral.  It was enjoying the Ornamental Pear Tree that we have on the west part of our land.

 

5/5/23

 It's a double digit day and Happy Cinco De Mayo!  TGIF, it's Friday too!  I was able to see and capture Red Admiral butterflies quite often this spring.  They are usually the first one I see and there were several of them around.  On this day there were at least 5 on the Lilacs at one time and then a couple over in the Crabapple tree.  I chose this particular image of one enjoying the Lilacs because of the lovely bokeh because Fridays Are Bokehlicious!

4/13/23

 I was able to capture my first butterfly of the season.  This is a Red Admiral that was enjoying some ornamental pear blossoms.  These butterflies have been the variety I usually see first in the spring except last year when my first was a Swallowtail.

5/8/21

 This is the 4th type of butterfly I was able to capture this year.  When my Lilacs were in full bloom a couple weekends ago they were visited by several Red Admiral butterflies.  I was able to capture several images of them.  I only seem to see them in the spring.  They must not like the heat much.  

4/22/19

Today is Earth Day officially but it should be Earth Day every day.  People need to be thinking about what they do and how it affects the environment.  It can start with your garden.  Think about plants that are good for butterflies and bees.  Plant native ones that have a better chance for survival.  You can plant things that aren't very expensive.  Zinnia from seed, Zinnias  are a butterfly magnet.  They provide food when other things have stopped flowering.  Plant Milkweed for Monarchs to reproduce.  To eat they all seem to enjoy Autumn Sedum.  I captured a Red Admiral on one of the Wild Plums growing in the area.  These too provide food for the butterflies and bees until the flowers bloom.  I was more prepared this time and had my zoom lens with me and got closer.  

4/12/19

Posting a bit early today as I was able to come home earlier.  I saw my first butterflies I was able to photograph on Wednesday.  They were Red Admirals and were enjoying the Wild Plums that were in bloom that day.  The Wild Plums smell wonderful so I can see why they would be attracted to them.  I hope our freeze this morning did not hurt them, I haven't made it over to see.  Anyway, there were about 4 if not more Red Admirals enjoying these and I unfortunately didn't have a zoom lens with me so I had to be stealthy and patient and this is about the closest I was able to get. 

4/27/18

This isn't my best butterfly image but I had to share it because it's the first butterfly of the year that I saw.  This Red Admiral was enjoying some blooms of Wild Plum trees.  We have had a couple of good freezes since I saw this so not sure how it did and I have not seen any other butterflies yet so hopefully they are doing OK.

11/14/17

The day started out dreary once again.  I needed this to brighten things up.  A lovely summer day with Dame's Rocket in bloom and a Red Admiral butterfly enjoying the blossoms fit that need well.

6/8/17

I have not seen a lot of butterflies around my home lately.  I believe this happened last year as well so hopefully a normal lull.  I was able to capture these two Red Admirals enjoying the blooms of some Tall Phlox earlier this Spring.

4/10/17

With the really warm weather we have had the last few days, the butterflies are back!  Yay!  The Red Admiral Butterfly is one that is very common in Kansas and is usually one of the first to be seen in the Spring.  I captured this one enjoying the Lilac blooms this past Saturday in the wind.  A bit of movement can be seen in the image.  I captured this in a moment of relative calm in between it rocking back and forth in the wind.

2/23/17

Spring is coming quickly it seems this year.  It won't be too long and we will have sights like this unless they get frozen out which, unfortunately is a real possibility.  Anyway, I captured this Red Admiral visiting the Lilac on a lovely Spring day a while back.

11/19/15

It was nice to see the sun today!  We only got the one day of rain but it's been cloudy and dreary for several.  As we head in to winter I find myself thinking of flowers in the garden and the butterflies.  We had such an odd summer this year that was cooler and rainy in the beginning but then got very hot when the rain quit that we didn't seem to get many butterflies this year.  I captured this Red Admiral butterfly back in May while it was visiting the Salvia that was in bloom.

11/12/15

Well, it's feeling a bit more like Autumn now.  I had a stressful day today so needed to relax thinking of lovely things like butterflies.  This is a Red Admiral that I was able to capture on a Milkweed bloom.  This image is actually from last year, I did not see many of them at all this year.