Beautiful Day

The common milkweed,  Asclepias syrica, is blooming in the back meadow, and the scent is heavenly!

As you can see the little skipper butterflies have discovered the milkweed.

Here is a blossom with three skippers.

The skippers all appeared to be little glassywings.

Here is the orange milkweed or butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, with an orange sulphur butterfly.

This charming little brown butterfly is the little wood satyr.  This butterfly has but one brood, and is only seen during the last two weeks of June.  But today I think I saw 8 or 10 of them.

The dragonflies were represented by this female eastern pondhawk.

The pickerel weed is blooming in the wetland, but is still hard to see with all the competition.

A charming clump of yarrow is much easier to see up on the bank.

And a walk in the meadow wouldn't be complete without a deer or two or five.