The photograph shows Black Beauty making her second verified appearance in our garden. She’s the same visitor that Priscille had spotted for the first time a few days ago.
On Tuesday, when we prepared to leave the house around 10:00 AM, I saw from the distance what appeared to be our new guest, quickly fetched my camera from its ready-to-go location, positioned myself within the Buddleias (butterfly bush) and began to shoot. The profusion of insects swarming all over those cone-shaped flowers made an attractive photographic target.
Later on around mid-day when I momentarily ventured out to check, there wasn’t a butterfly to be seen. What’s more, nary a bee was buzzing about the Russian Sage, a blue-flowered deer-resistant plant which usually attracts dozens of those little yellow and black workers.
It’s so hot out that even the insects seem to want a respite from the blistering mid-day heat. The weather is the boss.
Thanks for reading. Stay cool and take care of yourselves.
PHOTO: by Dick Bergeron, July 6, 2010
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