I never get tired watching the wildlife at the nursery.
This weekend was one in particular that just was captivating.
The Monarchs have been hanging around all week long but Saturday and Sunday it was intense.
The customers were stopping, standing and staring.
They could have cared less that I was standing there snapping photos.
Monarchs were everywhere- I mean everywhere.
Last weekend the Butterfly bush was a big hit with them, but this weekend it was the Butterfly Weed.
Coming in for a landing.
It was truly mesmerizing.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Great photos!
ReplyDeleteI've seen a lot of butterflies around lately.
Love it.
Oh, they are mesmerizing! Yesterday I was walking through hundreds of little butterflies in the parking lot at church. I was leaving late so was alone in the parking lot. It sits high above Austin off 2222. I felt like I was part of a really private moment among them. They are so cool!
ReplyDeleteWow - what great pictures. You captured them so well.
ReplyDeleteI am already missing the butterflies as a noreaster closes down on us this week!
ReplyDeleteLinda- thanks! I know- there are so many- it is wonderful!!!!
ReplyDeleteCat- how neat- that must have been very calming being in the middle of them flying all around.
Diana- Thanks! Easy subjects!!
Nantucket- It is still in mid to upper 80's here. We have brief moments of "fall" but they don't last that long...
These are simply gorgeous photos of tiny miracles .. we don't seem to have many butterflies here any more, which is sad .. or maybe they are in the garden when I am not?
ReplyDeleteThe biggest thrill we had this Spring was having a cocoon that I saved in the fridge all winter .. finally morph into a Black Swallowtail butterfly .. I thought my heart would beat out of my chest it was such a wonderful process to see.
Thank you for these pictures Kacky .. they are wonderful!
Joy (way up north!)
How exciting!!! I would have loved to have watched that- I would imagine quite incredible.
Deletenice.
ReplyDeleteI experienced a similar scene last summer when I was standing in front of a large white butterfly bush. Monarchs were everywhere- flitting about in the air, coming in for a landing and sipping the nectar. It was magical. I can imagine that your nursery visitors were just as enthralled.
ReplyDeleteI am answering from bottom to top on these- ha- in the response below I told someone about yesterday how they followed a plant out to the customers car!! There were flying around yesterday like whirling. It was so intense. He said he'd never seen anything like it. It was amazing. Yes- flitting about in the air- quite magical indeed!!!
DeleteThe butterflies seemed to be posing for you, like models in front of a photographer for a magazine! I love it when butterflies are too busy to be shy.
ReplyDeleteYesterday was so funny- a customer bought one of the Milkweeds and three of them stayed on the plant all the way to his car. They would have gone in too- we walked it over to the one we have planted out front and "shooed" them over there till they stayed then put his plant quickly in his car. Ha ha. He was amazed at them- they were just flying all around- he said he'd never seen it before- he was mesmerized (as I have been lately). No shyness there at all.
DeleteGorgeous photos! By happy coincidence I just reviewed a new novel that features Monarch Butterflies and their migration. It's Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. You'd love it.
ReplyDeleteI did not see that on your blog yet- I will go check it out- yes, for sure sounds like a book I need to get!!!! Thanks!
DeleteI bet the butterflies love your place. It's a veritable buffet of tasty flowers. I've been seeing tons of the cloudless sulfur butterflies this year. Do you get those at the nursery?
ReplyDeleteWe do but they are SO HARD to get in a photo with color- you can't see them. I have tons of so-so photos of them but none I have been happy with. They have really gotten me- tried them on bright colors and subtle ones and they just don't show up right- but yes, we get them/ have them.
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