Category: My Garden

I should clear the garden, but there are still a few skippers and sulphurs showing up to feed on the tail end of my sad zinnias.

I don’t remember seeing many of these guys in previous years. They’ve been regular visitors this summer.

Today was all about skippers.

Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Happy Labor Day (US)!

I worked today, because I need to save as much PTO as possible
for snow days this winter. I burned through most of my banked time off when Frances was sick, then when I got Thomas I used up the little bit I’d managed to re-bank. (We accrue time off biweekly, instead of getting a lump of time at the beginning of the year.)

So today I worked so I could save the holiday hours. Not the best way to celebrate Labor Day, but it beats having to drag myself to work in an ice storm or when it’s -10F.

The bees like sunflowers, too.

I think this is a clouded sulphur. It was hanging out on a sunflower with a hobomok skipper and a firefly.