Monday 27 May 2013

Today I saw a painted lady!

 After a night away, we released the cats into the garden!
My Buster – showing off
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)


It's tough work in the backyard

Daisy sips from the bird bath
in the rock garden

Ontario lilacs in full bloom
Phoebe is on the nest
5 eggs!

8 comments:

eileeninmd said...

Great sighting, it is a pretty butterfly!

lorik said...

My favourites are the butterfly (great closeup of colour and pattern) and your beautiful Buster. Very worrying about the ticks though... I must check my Melody.

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Lovely Painted Lady!

betty-NZ said...

Great series of shots--looks like the cats are having fun. Lilacs are so yummy smelling, glad you are enjoying them!

Anonymous said...

Your backyard is lovely! And what a gorgeous butterfly shot.

Fun60 said...

Great shot of the butterfly.

Unknown said...

Great Painted Lady shot!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

Unknown said...

I really enjoyed your pictures. My blog was about butterflys as well.