The selvage information on the beautiful butterfly fabric shown above says " Creature comforts butterflies" Isn't it beautiful! I especially like the swallowtail butterflies illustrated on it.
Shown above is a butterfly pillowcase I made for my little granddaughter. I hope she likes butterflies!
Above , a swallowtail butterfly feeds upon our lilac blossoms, just outside my window.
My first skipper sighting and photograph of spring 2011. I am making a guess that this might be a Hobomok Skipper!. I love finding Skippers. They are so tiny and beautiful.
I haden't seen these moths yet this spring until I spied this one shown above feeding on out lilac blossoms. Tiny isn't it? At first I had thought it was a bumblebee! This moth that is looking like a minature hummingbird was so busy and small its a delight ans wonder to observe. This photo was tasken from my living room window! WOW!Isn't nature so amazing!
The number of black spots on its fore wing determine the gender of this cabbage white butterfly. The photo sbove shows a female Cabbage White with two black spots on its fore wing and below showing only one blsck spot is a male Cabbage White butterfly!
finally I was able to get a picture of a Mourning Cloak butterfly! I have been trying to do this since April when I hadfirst started to see them on an old dirt road. Yesterday I had gone to a small pond hoping to see something to take a picture of when I saw something small and dark cross the road in front of my car, a dragonfly , maybe? I inched my car up to an approximate location when I had seen it enter the roadside bushes.
Then I saw it! A beautiful Mourning Cloak draped on a small branch of a bush.
