08/12/26

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is one of my favorites, Butterfly Milkweed.  It blooms June through August but is mostly done already in my area.  It can be found in varying colors of orange, from very light to an almost red.  It is in the Dogbane family and is very attractive to butterflies, hence the name.

 

 

07/03/26

 It's Friday, TGIF!  This flower has been blooming recently and has been looking pretty lovely.  This is butterfly Milkweed which usually attracts butterflies but, unfortunately, butterflies are few and far between this year.  I saw Monarchs early in the year and a few others but have not seen much of any since.  Makes me sad.  Anyway, this is a wildflower but sharing for today because of the wonderful bokeh, especially on the left hand side because Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!

06/30/25

 Happy Monday, happy new week and happy last day of June.  My goodness the summer is going quickly.  I have had a few opportunities recently for butterfly images.  They have not been as plentiful as I would like, no sign of Painted Ladies yet.  This is a female Black Swallowtail on my Butterfly Milkweed that I was able to capture last weekend.

06/14/25

 I missed out on the annual Wildflower Walk at Konza Prairie this year due to other commitments.  It's always a very enjoyable time out on the beautiful prairie observing all the flowers in bloom.  I usually get to see the sun set as well before I head for home.  This is an image from the event a couple years ago of the evenings sunset over some Butterfly Milkweed.  There was rain off in the distance which made for an interesting sky I thought.

06/08/24

 Last weekend was the annual Wildflower Walk out at Konza Prairie.  It was a lovely evening and they had a huge turnout.  I led a group of about 20 fun people.  After we got back I went back out a short way to watch the sun set over the prairie and I took this image.  That's an Echinacea in the foreground and behind is a lovely example of a Butterfly Milkweed.

12/14/23

 I felt like sharing a butterfly today.  This is an image I captured this summer of a Red Spotted Purple that was enjoying the Butterfly Milkweed in my garden one day.

8/27/21

 It's Friday, TGIF!  I have had a few large butterflies around lately which has been nice.  This Black Swallowtail male was visiting my Butterfly Milkweed plant last week.  One of it's tail wings was a bit scraggly but it seemed to be making it around just fine even though.  Friday's Are Bokehlicious so this photo was chosen for the lovely bokeh behind created by other plants.

2/18/21

 I grow Milkweed for the Monarchs but I have yet to capture a shot like this on it.  I got this image at my in-law's home in Missouri.  A Monarch Caterpillar enjoying a Butterfly Milkweed plant in their garden.

1/15/21

 Last summer, large butterflies like Swallowtails seemed to be a more common sight for me which was enjoyable but unusual.  This is a Black Swallowtail female on a bloom of my Butterfly Milkweed, which is not a weed at all but a native wildflower, in the garden.  I chose this image for today due to the bokeh created by the Milkweed because it's Friday and Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

7/2/20

I have to share a butterfly every week these days because they make me happy as well and I have been fortunate to see a good number of them this year.  I captured this one on my Butterfly Milkweed about a week ago or so.  This is a female Black Swallowtail.

6/22/20

My mom-in-law in Missouri has some Butterfly Weed growing in her garden.  Look what we found munching away on it this weekend, a Monarch caterpillar!  Cool!  I would love to see some munching away at mine.  So far just Swallowtails visiting which is good too but..  

6/1/19

I was out on Konza Prairie tonight for a wildflower refresher walk.  It was a lovely evening.  I captured this Butterfly Milkweed in the late evening sun.  The sun has a red cast lately due to some Canadian wildfires apparently.  It is posting for the 1st day of June.  Welcome to June!  😄

3/28/19

So we have a chance of rain the next few days.  Started out with a lovely pink sky this morning.  It's almost April and April showers bring May flowers so kind of hoping for that.  I am looking forward to sights like this in the summer.  This is a huge Bumblebee I captured on some Butterfly Milkweed this past summer.

11/5/18

I haven't shared one of these for a while and someone on G Plus was looking for these kinds of shots today.  I decided on this one that I shot out at Konza Prairie this past summer because it was appropriate for the season with the colors.  This is a Fritillary I captured on some Butterfly Milkweed this past June.

6/30/18

On the last day of the month I am sharing an image that I took on the first day of the month.  This is a five shot panorama of Butterfly Hill out on Konza Prairie.  I took this on the evening of the Wildflower Walk refresher.  The Butterfly Milkweed was having a great year and was blooming rather profusely, it's all the orange you see and this image is best viewed large by clicking on it.

6/22/18

I Captured this image on the evening of the Annual Wildflower Walk out at Konza Prairie.  This Great Spangled Fritillary was visiting the Butterfly Milkweed and stopped for a moment so I could get a photo.

10/13/17

Happy Friday the 13th!  It's usually a good day for me, I shall see how it ends.  😉  Seems Fridays have been for butterflies but I have had great opportunities for butterfly images this year.  I think I have enough shots I could post one every day but that may bore you.  This one is a Silvery Checkerspot that I captured in July on the Butterfly Milkweed.  It sat quite well for a macro shot of it.  I also realized this was a positive ID on a new one so I have updated the Butterfly Page as well.  

7/6/17

This is an image I was able to get a while back of a Bumble Bee enjoy the Butterfly Milkweed.  It was just about to land on this bloom when I captured it.

6/23/17

I have not seen many butterflies around my home lately.  There have been a few but not as many as I would like especially since I have planted a number of new plants for them.  When I was out on Konza Prairie during the first weekend in June I did see a number of Monarchs which made me happy.  A lot of those were even busy making more Monarchs.  This one though was just enjoying the Butterfly Milkweed and I captured it when it stopped for a moment to enjoy this bloom of it.

6/22/17

So one more hot day and then a few nice and cool ones it looks like, yay.  Today's image is a close up of a Bumblebee that was busy working on the blooms of my Butterfly Milkweed plant a couple weeks ago.  He did not seem to care much that I was taking it's photo, it was just furiously digging in the blooms so I was able to get fairly up close and personal.