Mosaic Monday/Outdoor Wednesday...or...Butterflies and Sleepy Babies

My butterfly bushes are in full bloom and attracting some beautiful visitors! My favorites are the Eastern Tiger Swallowtails. They hang from the shrubs like elegant Christmas ornaments! My grandson tells me this is the state butterfly of Georgia. He learned that in first grade. I didn’t even know we had a state butterfly! lol

Isn’t it gorgeous? I love the way you can see the shadowy outline of the flowers through its delicate wings! The afternoon sun is streaming through them like stained glass windows.

Even the underside is beautiful! I love the little blue edges and the soft, fat body, striped like a tiny zebra!!

I also have some new babies in my ornamental cherry tree! The robins have built a second nest and have hatched another brood. The funny thing is that the nest was almost blown away before the eggs were laid and my grandson and I put it back. We had to rework it because it was such a mess. We must be good nest builders because the robins chose to lay their eggs in it anyway! Here are two of the three babies fast asleep.

The third baby always sleeps like this with his beak propped up against the tree and his mouth open! I can almost hear Big Bird’s funny snore….snort…wah wah wah wah wah !

Oh oh! It looks like I woke up two of them! Don’t you love those fuzzy mohawks???

Now I’ve gone and done it! They’re all awake! I’d better get the heck out of Dodge before their mom and dad discover that I’ve been visiting! I’ll try to keep you up to date on their progress!

Thanks for coming by! Please head on over to Mary’s wonderful blog Little Red House for Mosaic Monday to see one of her beautiful mosaics and to find out who else is playing along this week.

Then stop by A Southern Daydreamer to pay a visit to our own Georgia girl, Susan for Outdoor Wednesday. You’ll be treated to her beautiful gardens and find a list of more fabulous blogs with lots of amazing places to visit and things to see. See you next time! A la prochaine!