Today I had one of my favorite monarchs in the garden wafting among the last of my zinnias.
This lovely creature let me creep ever closer to it.
It even let me touch its wing a little before it flew away.
I noticed that the center of the zinnia contains a bunch of little flowers. The butterfly had this long tongue-like thing (it probably has a name) that it would stick into the flower to get pollen or nectar or whatever it was after.
Maybe in this picture you can see it coiled up. The butterfly was moving its food along the tongue-like thing into its mouth. It was fascinating. I couldn't believe I got this close to it.
Even though we have passed the end of summer on the calendar, we have had some great weather here for the past week. It was nice to spend some more time outside today. I feel like each day we have that is nice out also keeps winter away for one more day. What a nice treat for "end of summer". :)
Hope you are enjoying your end of summer/fall!
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