View large here. Butterfly came out great. Background, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired. This is probably a candidate for a cutout and background blur at some point, but right now I'm just trying to get through the backlog -- I'm taking pictures a lot faster than I'm getting them processed & posted.
Rick & I went to sign the contract at our wedding venue. It's a manor hall set on a lakeshore, and after concluding our business we took a little walk along the lake. Found an amazingly colored leafhopper, a baby praying mantis, Eastern Forktail (above) & Fragile Forktail damselflies, blackberries in full bloom, & deerberries in bloom.
Here's a young female -- completely different.
And a male -- yet again completely different.
Rick & I went to sign the contract at our wedding venue. It's a manor hall set on a lakeshore, and after concluding our business we took a little walk along the lake. Found an amazingly colored leafhopper, a baby praying mantis, Eastern Forktail & Fragile Forktail (above) damselflies, blackberries in full bloom, & deerberries in bloom.
Thank you to Urtica for the ID. Male flowers of Asiatic Bittersweet, an invasive vine. (Male & female flowers are on separate plants.) Couldn't even place the family -- turns out it's the flagship (nominate) member of an oddball family I wasn't familiar with.
