Our butterfly bushes are starting to bloom and attract butterflies. This ragged butterfly made the rounds of the white and purple bushes on either side of the deck. Its ragged wings don’t affect its flight at all. The wings help protect its soft body, and it looks like this butterfly has had at least one run-in with the birds I’ve photographed catching insects on the wing.

A ladybug was taking a tour of one of the sunflowers, hiking through its leafy canyons in search of food. On a neighboring sunflower, Evil Boll Weevil was preparing to attempt a jump to one of the other sunflowers growing among the old strawberry ziggurats.

Honey Perfume had a very interesting asymmetrical shape and was a lovely yellow under the morning sun filtering through the clouds.

Guildenstern and Mama Manx were blocking the door this afternoon trying to keep me from leaving to get fluids for Stretch. I think they’ve been plotting with Stretch.