Next to last Wednesday of the month.

I was going to complain, but really, how can I when we are so blessed?
So instead, I will post a picture I took a few days ago.

This is the second Monarch butterfly I've found on the ground like this. It wasn't dead. I watched it slowly moving it's wings occasionally.
No milkweed around here for laying eggs on. Guess it was just stopping by.

Before we know it the year will be over! Hope you're all doing well. ♥

This is our back fence line.

We are sort of working on a small garden test plot behind the garage. People have put a lot of garbage back there so we are digging out tin cans, glass, and so on. It wasn't like that when we lived here in '94.

Anyway, we noticed butterflies flying around the fence line. I took a bunch of pictures, but only a few turned out, after cropping them.

All we think we can say for sure is they are some sort of swallowtails.

I think they were around some sort of berry plant/vine like this one.

Whatever they are interested in, it was not the elderberries, which look quite different, as you can see from the upper right corner of this picture.

We've been getting visits from hummingbirds, too, but I've not had my camera when I see them, sorry.

Hope you all have a blessed Friday! ♥