WHAT BIG EYES YOU HAVE!

This is the first butterfly I’ve seen in my yard this summer. It wasn’t busy gathering pollen, but just seemed to be sunning itself - so lucky for me, it stayed still much longer than normal for a butterfly. I liked its interesting eyes, turned up nose & white furry underbelly. (See that better on Flickr.) (A close-up and a shot with its wings spread are on Flickr.)

Amazingly, this has been a week of firsts for me: the deer in the yard, a hummingbird, a red dragonfly and now a butterfly. Then to add to all that, this morning a family of wild turkeys walked across my back yard! By the time I got my camera, I wasn’t quite quick enough for a good shot, but I did get them as they turned to wander back into the woods.