I TOOK A WALK TODAY...

...and BUTTERFLIES were EVERYWHERE
around the deck and in the prairie!!!

Tiger Swallowtail on Butterfly Bush

Sharing a Meal

Tiger Swallowtail-Frontal View

Monarch on Butterfly Weed

Black Swallowtail

Great Spangled Frittilary

AND

Many of you know that after we "limed" the pond, it came to life (hence, the name, Lazurus Pond)...first with some aquatic transplants, then some amphibians, then a few more dragonfly species and now sedges....which have helped all of the above flourish.

Dragonfly Larvae Casing