We hadn't seen any Monarchs for a week or two, though we did see some caterpillars. We never did see a chrysalis, but the adult butterflies seemed to have disappeared. Then out of the blue we've been seeing a couple of Monarchs fluttering around the garden the past two days. I'm making the assumption that these are newly hatched butterflies.
Then one landed on a Verbena flower, though it was 50 feet away, so the photo is blurred around the edges. I thought it must have a preference for the Verbena.
I waited patiently until it opened its wings and got a good shot. It was brilliant orange, like a newly hatched butterfly!
But then it flittered around until it landed on a Mexican Sunflower. If I hadn't seen it land I wouldn't have spotted it.
Again I waited a few minutes until it spread its wings. Beautiful!
Actually the second shot I got for the entire morning was this one, a perfect capture of early fall. Sorry, Blogger just won't allow me to space this correctly.
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