The above butterfly landed on the flowers on the edge of the deck this afternoon. It sat there with its wings together for a long time, but I wanted a photo of it with its wings spread, so I finally touched its wings lightly and it opened them up for this photo. At first we thought it was newly emerged from its cocoon and drying out, but when I was looking at the other photos of it from different angles I noticed it had part of one of its legs missing. There were lots of different bees, wasps and flies hanging out on various plants this morning. At the end of the series is a photo of Rosencrantz reclining.
Off Center & Not Even 
Rosencrantz is THE MAN!! 🙂
I love today’s photos – they are all so colorful, interesting, up-close, and of course, Rosencrantz always steals the show. Wow, the butterflies are beautiful and the bees and wasps are so close, you can see them like never before. Thanks for sharing.
Kitties are always doing something cute. I could just about have a cute kitty of the day blog.
-The close up of the fly is impressive.
-Rosencranz is in a sexy mood it seems…….
The flies are pretty big and bold in the summer heat. That was one of Rosencrantz’ less naughty looking poses. He gets really wild at times;• )