It's Butterfly Time Again

My butterfly bushes (buddleia) are now in flower. If I am lucky they sit still and let me take a photo. Here is one of this year’s visitors, a peacock butterfly.

The Butterfly

Have you ever wanted to photograph something and it just wouldn't work. Since a week I have had visits from cabbage white butterflies. They are not particularly colourful, mainly white with a few spots. Their children are very unpopular. Mainly long and green in colour and they have a very large appetite for green leaves, mainly salad and other edible vegetables. Funnily enough I had not seen any caterpillars in the garden, but I stopped doing veg a couple of years ago.

Anyhow mummy butterfly has been flying around all the time, but was very busy and just would not sit still for a photo until today. We have had torrential rainfall in the last couple of days and my hosta leaves had a few butterfly sized puddles on them, the ideal place for lady butterfly to have a drink. I then spotted her sitting on a leaf so sneaked up and took a photo, trying not to shake while I was doing it (these days that often happens). This was the result and I though with this I must be satisfied.

I decided to hang around to see if she decided to spread her wings out and relax, and my patience was rewarded. I think I took about ten photos of her and this is the best one I made.

So the next time you want to assassinate a green caterpillar, think twice as this is what they grow up to be (or just don't grow any salad in the garden).

Guess what the cats had today - Yes, tuna fish

Well they all had their noses in their dishes this evening, although Nera looked a bit aloof.
"What did you expect, Mrs. Human, I was waiting for my tuna and you gave Tabby and Fluffy their fish first of all. I am not used to be the last, after all I am the oldest and most beautiful."
"Hold you squeaks Nera" said Tabby, "it just so happens that since you run away from Roschti all the time and I have to do the chasing your status has gone down just a little bit".

Although the argument between my cats didn't last very long. Tabby soon had her nose in her fish dish and Fluffy did not even bother to join in the conversation. Tuna fish is tuna fish. And what did Nera do, she waited a couple of minutes and could not resist the fish any more and started munching. Afterwards they had a relaxing hour out on the porch.

I had an interesting meeting after lunch today. I parked my car at work and was walking over to the office building, loaded with a shopping bag and two pots of herbs (chives and basil) which looked very nice. Then I looked down and saw a butterfly in its last hours. I had never seen one that colour before so I put my bags down and took the camera out. Unfortunately the butterfly was moving so the photo did not show the result I would have liked.

It got a bit blurred around the edge. It was a bit of an uneventful day. Nothing special actually happened. My value in Facebook has increase, it seems I have now been bought for L$500. I have also collected 3 colleagues from work as my friends in Facebook who have been there for some time. It's a small world really I suppose.

I now have to water the garden, Fluffy is telling me he wants to go inside and it is no longer so warm out here on the porch so I think I will now call it a day.