Every summer Butterflies arrive to enjoy my blooming flowers. Like travelers on the interstate, they stop and refresh themselves with nutrients to sustain them on their way. Leaving their eggs and chrysalises behind they carry on year after year. They are a joy to behold, as they flit from flower to flower probing for nectar in each tiny yellow stamen. All the while they pollinate my Zinnias for next years planting.
Nature’s bright colors
Displayed in shining glory
Butterfly buffet
Roth Poetry 
Amazing pictures…
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Thank you very much!
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These are taken with my iPhone SE!
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I phone pictures have a charm of its own…
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I am amazed how good the camera is on the iphone!
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Dwight, these photos really brighten my day. The ones with two butterflies with the flowers are magnificent! Butterfly buffet indeed. I need to plant some zinnias next year they are lovely.
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They are wonderful and very hardy flowers. The butterflies and bees love them.
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Beautiful pictures amazing
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Whereabouts were these photos taken? The only butterflies I see in my garden are the plain white ones and these ones are beautiful 🦋🌺
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This is near Charlotte, NC. Our area is outside the city in a farming area.
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How wonderful! You are blessed to live in a place with these beautiful sightings 😊💖
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Yes, for sure! We have a large wooded lot adjoining our development that helps us see birds and butterflies come for the flowers.
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Oh how wonderful, you must get some of the best views of nature 💫✨
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Yes, Beautiful as as the seasons change!
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Indeed! 💖🦋
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Dwight, breathtakingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing the joys of your garden. ❤ All the best! Cheryl
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Thank you Cheryl! They leave me in awe over and over again!
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Gorgeous creatures! Uplifting haibun and photos, Dwight. You are blessed. 🦋🙏🦋
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Yes, Even in this time of Covid, nature does not change. It has been a way to get out and about at home. They are beautiful!
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Wow! Those butterfly photos are incredible!!!
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Thank you Liz. They just sit there drawing nectar and don’t seem to mind me at all. They are gorgeous to see up close.
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Your photos captured their beauty perfectly.
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Thank you Liz! They are wonderful!
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You’re welcome, Dwight!
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Your haiku is so beautiful and right-on…butterflies are a buffet for our eyes! They always make us smile! 🙂 Lovely buffet of butterfly photos, Dwight! 🙂
I always think about the darkness and struggle butterflies go through before they can fly. We must remember that without that dreaded thing called change, there would be no butterflies for us to enjoy.
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…Did you know that a group of butterflies is often referred to as a kaleidoscope or a flutter? I prefer those terms over the term swarm. Ha. 🙂
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Very interesting comment. Kaleidoscope is a great description . They are a joy to watch… so fragile … so beautiful… so amazing. Thank you for you most interesting response.
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WOW. They are big butterflies and pretty too.
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Thank you! They are about full size on my laptop screen. Bigger if you have a larger screen!
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Love your Haiku that accentuates your beautiful photographs. I love butterflies and the hope for the future they represent to me. 👍🏽❤️
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Thanks you so much Jan. I love seeing them each year. I have only seen a few monarchs the past few years, but the swallowtails keep coming each year. So fragile, they are amazing creatures.
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When you have worked hard towards a beautiful garden, butterflies are the reward. And such beautiful photos are a bonus, really well captured photos! I think there are three different types of butterfly there.
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Thank you Deb. Yes, It is wonderful to see them come each year. Their marvelous colors are so awesome to see. I believe there are three different ones in the photo.
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You do a much better job of catching them than I do. Mine are always off in a flash.
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I try to move very slowly when I am close to them!
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As do I, but they only stay seconds at each flower.
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Sometimes they take off circle and come back! I try to wait them out!
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Me, too, but they always come back to a different bloom. Perhaps that is my problem. Too many blooms. Or too little patience. At any rate, I can come look at your photos..
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Yes, help yourself!
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So pretty
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Thank you, Diane!
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WOW 🤩🤩 great captures ❗❗🤩
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Thank you very much!
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My pleasure
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Splendid shots. We have seen less than usual this year.
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Thank you Derrick. The monarchs are less and less. I have only seen one or two this year. The swallowtails come every year!
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Beautiful images and haibun Dwight, what a treat to see so many butterflies! 🦋
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I only see a handful each year, but I make the most of them when they show up.
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Beautiful haiku, Dwight, and your photos are breathtaking!
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Thank you so much!
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Most welcome!
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A fabulous haiku!!! …”butterfly buffet”: brilliant 👏👏👏
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Thank you so much! The colors are really wonderful this year!
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You’re very welcome. ❤💙💚💜💛
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Gorgeous photos too 😍
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Thank you so much!
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It’s a pleasure
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Woaaah, your garden must be so wonderful to visit! Beautiful pictures too
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Thank you so much. Yes, the flowers really were beautiful this summer!
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You are welcome!
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How pretty!! Must have been dazzling to watch. Love the poem too 🙂
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Yes, they really are dazzling to watch. I am always excited to see them! Hope your zinnias are blooming??
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I wish I had a place to plant some, but I live in an apartment 🙂 Someday, I’d love to have a yard so I can make a big flower and vegetable garden!
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Maybe you could have a couple of five-gallon to grow things on your deck??
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No deck either 😦 😦 Or balcony. However, I have thought of getting a window box for our big living room window! 🙂
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Wow! That is too sad to hear! I hope you have a park nearby…. or a battlefield!! :>)
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My husband and I have made a habit of visiting other neighborhoods for nice walks around LA, and we get to see some spectacular gardens that way 🙂 No battlefields nearby me, although you know I always love visiting those too! 🙂
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That is great! Lets hope the battlefield thing stays that way! :>)
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Thank you so much. The zinnia statement was for my blogger above you Mirriam. Maybe you have some too??
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Beautiful photos! And a good little poem.
Karen
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Thank you so much Karen for you comment!
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Beautiful clicks 🙂
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Thank you… sometimes I get lucky!!
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