From younger days...

Can you believe this was taken before I was 60 yrs. old.  I had not thought of my age in relations to when I took pics...
 

Monarchs...

I kind of like the effect of the one being in focus and the others not so much.
 

Painted Lady

 I am resorting to the archives part of the time...this one is from 2008.

This year's first butterfly photo

 This is not the first butterfly I have seen, it s just the first photo I have taken.  And this is a cropped photo.

A Monarch

 A Monarch butterfly rom 2009....

Sparked joy

 I ran across this the other night while looking for something else...and it sparked such a good feeling, I just had to share it.

Butterfly

 This is one of the very, very few butterflies I have photographed this summer....

Monarch

I would not mind a day of chasing butterflies....like this day back in September. 

From warmer days

 Winter has only begun and I am done posting summer pics....

Revisit summer...

 After the wintry day today, this looks very inviting.

Viceroy

 I did not see one single Viceroy butterfly this year...below is a Monarch.   Do you see the difference/

Butterfly

 This is from the archives...I don't see them very often.

Two in one

 There was only the one Tiger Swallowtail the other day, but at least two or three Monarch Butterflies.

Painted Lady

 You just got to admit that the bottom side/side of the wings that is showing now, has a beauty all its on on the Painted Lady Butterfly.

Magic

 The background of this shot is pure magic to me...it does not look real.

From the swamp area....

 Another shot of a Monarch butterfly...taken on the last trip to the swamp.

Monarch Chrysalis

 

This is a scan of an old photo, taken in our garden in 1994.

First Monarch photo

 This is the first Monarch Butterfly  I have photographed this year.

To be truthful, I have not seen many.

Posing...

Thank God for auto-focus...I could not have gotten these otherwise.

 

Butterflies from the archives...

Again I am resorting to the archives.    These are from July 2010.  

I definitely need to get some plants that attract butterflies.  I only see one very occasionally in the yard.  I guess they miss the patch of cone flowers I usually have.