After a period of disappointment because there didn’t seem to be any Swallowtails visiting this year, today there were several visiting our flower garden and this one patiently posed for a few photos. They hadn’t disappeared, they were just later than usual. Usually my photos result from a trip I have made: it was nice today to have a subject come to me (and thanks to my wife for spotting it and letting me know we had a pretty little visitor).
Small-flowered Penstemon Penstemon procerus
Figwort family
This photo is a week or so old, but these are blooming everywhere around here now.
Arctic Lupine Lupinus arcticus
Pea family
And while on the subject of the pea family,
American Vetch Vicia Americana
Pea family
(This Hyacinth heard that “blue” was being featured and crept in through the tall grass.)
The “not a clue what this little blue flower is” flower. Some kind of monkey flower perhaps? Update: I think this may be Ground Ivy, Glechoma Hederacea, in the Mint family.
The flagship of the Harebell family,
Harebell, Bluebell of Scotland Campanula rotundifolia
And last but not least, resplendent with its own blue markings,
