Skip for Joy!

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The next few days is going to be difficult to get good quality blips, or just any blips at all - today was difficult too, I had a mere 20 minutes to wander round the garden with my camera - mostly the wildflower patch, frantically searching for something to photo! And then I saw this, a small skipper butterfly - I was literally jumping for joy & yelling at it in excitement - this is the first ever small skipper, all that hard effort planting out a small wildflower meadow & to be greeted with this WOW!

Today I added to the wildflowers - I planted common fleabane, viper's bugloss, dog violet, dame's violet, wild bergamot (bee balm), Welsh poppy, sweet cicely & moth mullein - already growing is cornflower, field poppy, red & white clover, ox-eye daisy, greater knapweed, catsear, hawkweed, field speedwell, red & white campion, foxglove, wild carrot, meadow cranesbill, birds foot trefoil, harebell, yellow rattle, stinging nettle, dock, sheep sorrel, red fescue grass, Yorkshire fog grass, Quaker grass, cocks-foot grass.. well, you get the picture, there are many more, but it's late & I'm tired... & every year I keep adding, so to have attracted a small skipper butterfly is the kind of thing that makes it all worthwhile!

Thank you for all the comments from yesterday's blip - really I was overwhelmed with the response & the stars & the favourites & it reaching the Spotlight page too - truthfully I didn't think it would amount to much, as it's so over exposed, but then, I think I'm falling into the technical trap - even this photo tonight is over exposed, but this is the only photo I took of the skipper & frankly to me, it's the best photo to have, proof of such a beautiful insect visiting my very own garden!