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Sherry8

Wisconsin...zone 4
Posts: 2320

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: Monarch Butterfly

I had fun capturing this beauty...he was flying from one coneflower to the next and then back again...

Monarch ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )

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eileen

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Scotland
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:39 am Post subject:
Oh what lovely photographs Sherry. I'm so glad your Monarch perched for long enough for you to get those shots of him. _________________

Sjoerd

West - Friesland
Posts: 6915

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:52 am Post subject:
Very nice fotos, Sherry...and with the Echinacea as a backdrop--well, it just makes the whole scene quite charming. _________________ Sjoerd http://www.volkstuindersvereniginghoornenomstreken.nl/Page11.html

glendann

Texas
Posts: 9228

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:
Oh he is so beautiful.Your photos are so great. _________________ 'Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.'

Jewell

Regular Plants Contributor

Puget Sound Region of the Pacific NW (Washington State, US)
Posts: 1587

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:
Thanks for sharing. We don't have monarchs here so it is great nostalgia for me. Beautiful with the echinachea _________________ ~Jewell If a you have but two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one to sustain your life, and a flower with the other to give you a reason to live. ~Chinese Proverb

Netty

Regular Plants Contributor

Southern Ontario zone 5a
Posts: 9955

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:06 am Post subject:
Great shots! I have seen very few Monarch's this year

Sherry8

Wisconsin...zone 4
Posts: 2320

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject:
Netty...I have seen them but this is the only one so far that didn't fly away when I got my camera..I think the numbers are way down but my butterfly bush has only been blooming about a week so hopefully it will attract more of them. _________________

Babaloo
michigan
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:22 am Post subject:
Ha, funny to see a monarch on echinacea. When I had echinacea the only thing that would land on them were bees! LOL To the person in Ontario we've had an unusually cool summer (i'm in greater detroit) but can assure you I've never seen so many monarch as this year, but then I keep a whole lot of milkweed so maybe that is drawing an unusual number than in years past.

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