Ringlet

..butterfly on Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)

Yes, another butterfly, my second this week.  It's also one of the few I've seen this year that isn't looking raggedy.  Why, do you suppose, are so many butterflies flying round on tattered wings this year?  Also smaller and paler.  To begin with I thought it might have been that very cold March we had, but perhaps it's the hot dry summer.  Who knows!

Apart from that, today's been taken over by wonderful Simon N who's brought his van of tools and mended the bathroom window locks, the smoke alarm and the guttering, put up a mirror, shifted an enormous chest-of-drawers up to my bedroom, chopped off a big branch hanging over the garden shed, and installed the new shower screen, before moving on to my sis and fixing something for her.  And all in half a day.  Phew!

Many thanks to Nickimags888 for hosting today's TinyTuesday

Nowt else to report.  Enjoy your Tuesday evening  xx

A list of my blipped 2018 wildflowers to date:

JANUARY
Snowdrops
FEBRUARY
Gorse (or furze);  Wild daffodils
MARCH
Coltsfoot;  Primroses;  Blackthorn
APRIL
Greater periwinkle;  Goat willow;  Ground ivy;  Cowslips;  Daisy;
Common field speedwell;  Wood anemone;  Greater celandine
MAY
Cuckoo flower (or lady’s smock);  Yellow archangel;  Common dog violet;
Crab apple;  Bluebell;  Red clover;  Germander speedwell;
Three-cornered leek;  Hawthorn;  Yellow flag; Dandelion;  Common vetch; Dog rose;  Green alkanet;
JUNE
Bramble;  Stinking iris;  Dropwort;  Meadow buttercup; Sweet briar;  Red campion;  Butterfly orchid;  Poppies;  Nettle;  Birdsfoot trefoil;  Meadow cranesbill;  Sainfoin; 
JULY
Musk mallow;  Field Scabious; Ragwort;