View from the patio.
Walt obviously has a green thumb and has planted a beautiful perennial flower garden in the back with mountain sage, salvia (hard to see behind the sage), rudbeckia, canna and a few sunflowers for good measure in the back.
Unbeknownst to me, this brings out the profusion of bees and butterflies. This year we had a new visitor.
The problem as a bee is if you are bigger than the flower, landing is a very delicate process.
But it's not impossible, particularly when the reward is nectar!
Lots of color from the butterflies - wonder why that is - that butterflies have lots of color - more to ponder while sitting in the garden.
We had a really elegant visitor the other day - a black swallowtail.
But by far the most exotic visitor to our yard was the clearwing hummingbird moth. I tried to get several photos, but it's the video that's so revealing. At first, I thought it was a baby hummingbird, but it had antennae and not a beak but a long tongue that reached in to get the nectar. I did get a great video.
