Just before they disappear irrevocably from view this year, let’s have a few late butterflies to cheer up this chilly Monday morning.
Monday Portraits: Butterflies
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Just before they disappear irrevocably from view this year, let’s have a few late butterflies to cheer up this chilly Monday morning.
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From Pyrenees to Pennines 
How lovely! Thank you
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I hope they cheered you, as they did me.
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They did, indeed, although the gorgeous splashes of Virginia creeper around here have been doing a pretty good job with that, already!
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So you did! (copy Jude) And very prettily too.
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Can’t keep a good idea down!
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🤣💗
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Thanks very much.
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You’re welcome!
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Lovely, butterfly friendly dahlias. Good to see the Painted Lady as none of those have visited us here this year.
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Yup, a bit rare here too.
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Great Monday Portraits. What type of butterflies are these beauties 🙂
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Click on each image to read the captions.
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Thank you for sharing the beautiful latecomers!
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These photos are not from yesterday, but there are some still around.
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There seem to be so many anomalies this year, both in plants and in insects!
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Precisely what’s needed on a Monday morning with our government almost in free fall and other gloomy news from around the world.
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Head-in-sand time, I think.
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Haha… lovely! I haven’t seen a single Painted Lady here this year. In fact it must be about three years ago that I last saw them. Life would be sad without butterflies.
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It would. But I have definitely seen – a few – Painted Ladies.
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So many butterflies in my WP feed today – these are lovely examples 🙂 I haven’t seen any around here for days.
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Sadly, it’s been a rough year for butterflies.
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We had a lot at one point but not for very long 😦
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Yes, it’s been very patchy.
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Beautiful pictures. This year wasn’t all too good for butterflies up here in Scotland. Some varieties seem to have thrived, but I can name at least three usually common types of butterfly that I didn’t see at all.
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Don’t kid yourself that it was any better here. Rather dismal in fact.
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That’s not good news.
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Beautiful post with those gorgeous butterflies. I see the yellow ones are dahlias 😀
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They are indeed Cee. From a country house near here.
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I also noticed the passion flower in bloom. I’m surprised it can grow there.
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Yes, you don’t see them often.
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We are celebrating Thanksgiving Day in Canada today. So many thanks for this lovely post. I am reminded of the quote by Robert A Heinlein: “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” I may have missed some of your posts recently, due to travel, but will be catching up soon.
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I thought you’d been silent. A lovely quote – and I hope your travels have been all you hoped for. Happy Thanksgiving!
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It was extraordinary!!! Retracing steps if the past!
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I loved those cheery butterflies. Lovely!
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They do cheer us up, don’t they?
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These are beautiful captures Margaret!
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Thanks Cindy. You’d have done better!
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So lovely!
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Butterflies are easy to love, are’t they?
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How nice of the lovely butterflies to pose long enough to be photographed on the equally lovely flowers! Definitely a cheering post.
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They were quite obliging. For once.
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