Friday, August 5, 2022, 1:37 pm — Another deck flower perennial … echinacea (coneflower) … ready, willing and able to welcome a busy bee … See video of earlier generations, 4 years ago, Flower Power Deck Bees, July 26, 2018 …
Close-up of the earnest bee … finally found the action setting on the newish Lumix FZ300 … Also posted on my other blog, My Photo a Day Adventure …
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 7:16 pm — Cool of the evening … swallowtail butterfly … dining at the butterfly bush … the 100º sun is finally down … beginning a week in the high 90ºs … the first overly hot stretch of a rainier-than-usual Pacific NW summer … See a swallowtail in brighter light, 3 years ago, Up Close Butterfly Cat, July 22, 2019 …
Video below … Swallowtail butterfly … butterfly bush has been late to bloom this year …
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 9:55 am — Teeny Tuxedo … what do you see outside? … Perky’s more interested in eating, which is great! …
Big circle … little circle … which does Teeny Tuxedo prefer? … If she could read, she’d know that the big blue circle celebrates Margaret Fountaine, intrepid Victorian traveler, who loved butterflies and men … and wrote about both in her diaries … From Teeny’s feline perspective, the tiny blue circle on the big tv screen is much more interesting … and it moves! …
“Margaret Fountaine, 1862-1940, I’m a bloody lepidopterist and i loved love” … alternative blue heritage plaque … Norwich, Norfolk, England …
“In 1867 the very first blue plaque was unveiled to mark the London birthplace of Lord Byron. These iconic heritage plaques can now be found on buildings across the UK, celebrating ‘great figures of the past from all walks of life who have contributed to society’. But do they tell the whole story?” – source
“Rosie’s Plaques is a guerrilla art project staged by women of The Common Lot theatre company. When we discovered that out of more than 300 heritage plaques in Norwich [England] only 25 celebrated non mythical women, we decided to do something about it. In May 2019, under cover of darkness and dressed as Rosie the Riveter, we erected hand made alternative blue plaques on significant buildings in the city.” … including a plaque for Margaret Fountaine!
During my August 1999 home exchange in Durham, England, I made two train trips to the Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk … to spend time in the non-public area with Margaret’s butterfly collection … but more importantly, her diaries … 12 volumes … from 1878, when she was barely 16 … to 1939, the year before her death in Trinidad, seeking butterflies … see January 22, 2022 – Brilliant … on My Photo a Day Adventure blog
Saturday, September 5, 2020, 7:04 pm — Perkins … patiently waits for the evening entertainment outside the window …
… 7:35 pm … what big eyes you have! … rabbit … by automatic sprinkler …
… 8:02 pm … cricket chorus! … back in trees beyond butterfly bush … [turn sound up] …
Friday, July 17, 2020, 2:27 pm — VERY few butterflies this year … 1st swallowtail … butterfly bush … through window screen … overcast day … color brightened with SnagIt …
… 1 year ago … natural sunlight … Up Close Butterfly Cat, July 22, 2019 … more photos, video! …
Friday, July 10, 2020, 10:52 pm — Perkins … I see you, buggy bugster! …
… wow! … that’s one tough water drop on your chin … how’d it get there? … see Perk’s Water Tradition, Sept. 11, 2019 …
Thursday, October 17, 2019, 2:53 pm — Li’l Buster Brown squirrel … busy as ever at the black oil sunflower seed feeder …
… oh, no … is that a tick near the opening to its ear? …
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 2:43 pm — Teeny Tuxedo …
… 3:03 pm … honey bee … butterfly bush …
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 11:00 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … look closely … Perky’s smiling! … and there’s a butterfly on the butterfly bush …
Sunday, September 15, 2019, 1:33 pm — Poor squirrel … ticks … around ear and eyes … first time I’ve seen this … or any tick … Southwest Washington …
… 3:20 pm … young squirrel … tick free … under the black oil sunflower seed bird feeder …
Sunday, August 11, 2019, 4:12 pm — Video screenshots … hummingbird shares butterfly bush flower with bee …
… airborne bee! …
… spot of red on throat! … female (?) Rufous hummingbird …
Sunday, August 11, 2019, 2:07 pm — Perkins … I know you’re comfy on the Kitty Sill … but you’re missing the swallowtail butterfly on the butterfly bush …
… for fun … the butterfly who lives in the kitchen … perched on the Scotty dog cookie jar … July 9, 2019, 11:52 am …
… cookie jar collection … May 5, 2019, 6:30 pm … from My 365 Photos, May 2019 …
Sunday, August 4, 2019, 10:07 am — Three days after the butterfly bush was cut in half … swallowtail butterfly finds one of the few remaining flowers … enlarge photos to see details of legs, etc. …
Thursday, August 1, 2019, 11:35 am — Working at the computer … looked out the window … branches of the bountiful butterfly bush were shaking … bending violently … no wind blowing … what the??!! … cut down to less than window height! … (culprit in photo) … parting “gift” of the not-so-good landscapers on their last day … they’d been fired … called the apartment manager … no policy that plants have to be this short, especially in full-bloom season … had been planted by cousin L a few years ago …
… this had been a mecca for hummingbirds, butterflies and honey bees … as soon as it was cut, a throng of confused bees circled the empty space … where did our flowers go?! … red arrow points to bees in the photos below …
In memory of the butterfly bush … the way it was … one year ago … with Perkins … Déjà Vu Cat, Sept. 11, 2018 … it was even more expansive this year …
Friday, July 26, 2019, 5:24 pm — Perkins! … what do you see? … I bet it’s a bug! …
Monday, July 22, 2019, 12:01 pm — Swallowtail butterfly … a chance to focus more closely on its body … butterfly bush …
… 1:54 pm … Perkins … maybe she’s dreaming of the butterfly right outside the window …
Bonus! … Hummingbird … sits on flower for a brief second at end …
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 3:39 am — Perkins … on bug patrol … they’re attracted to the over-the-stove light …
… quick change of location …
… top of Fridge Magnets Mountain …
Sunday, May 26, 2019, 2:11 pm — Summer will soon be here … dragonfly … through window screen … didn’t hang about … immediately zipped away …
… Saturday, June 13, 2015, 2:38 pm … 4 years ago … in a posing mood … more photos with then-new Lumix FZ200 … Dragonfly Cat …
Monday, May 6, 2019, 12:18 pm — Teeny … deck greenery …
… stretching her cute left back paw toes …
… Thursday, May 9, 2019, 9:47 am … shadows on the windowsill are … clematis … survived winter … growing gloriously … tiny fuzzy bug on tip-top of petal …
Monday, October 22, 2018, 11:12 am — Perkins … something’s different out there …
… her fluffy tail is on high alert …
… oh, no …
… the butterfly bush has been trimmed down … WAY down … for the winter …
11:28 am … Teeny Tuxedo asks Perky … “What’s goin’ on?” …
… uh, oh … let’s observe a moment of silence … at least the view’s better …
Three months ago, July 31, 2018 … butterfly bush glory days … it’ll grow back next year … the hummingbirds … and butterflies … loved it! …
Thursday, September 13, 2018, 1:47 pm — Who is it? … flitted too quickly at the butterfly bush to get a full-wing photo …
Friday, August 17, 2018, 2:00 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Perkins’ reflection …
… a tiny rust-colored butterfly …
… days shorter … sun lower in the sky … much more shade … much more pleasant 81°, the lowest since 95° on Tuesday … and bluish sky instead of gray smoke! …
… butterfly bush visitors … “white butterfly” … flitting away …
… young goldfinch …
Monday, August 13, 2018, 5:34 pm — Tenacious bumblebee … able to handle a windy afternoon on the butterfly bush …
Sunday, August 12, 2018, 11:55 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … scratching post … swallowtail butterfly on computer screen …from her blog post, Under the Wings, August 5 …
… dramatic yawn and white whiskers! …
Friday, August 10, 2018, 5:26 pm — Who’s the mystery cat in front of the Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo blog post … Plenty of Ideas Cat? …
Perkins! … “How about THIS idea? … DON’T use the flash when I’m trying to sleep!!”
5:42 pm … aaargh … even the swallowtail butterfly isn’t safe …
Enough of this PESKY flash … I’m leaving the premises … tout suite … toot sweet! …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 