Monarch butterfly in my yard.

A swallowtail just landing.

Butterfly in for its close-up.

Large, beautiful swallowtail butterflies have come back to our coneflowers this year.

A flashback to summer on a cold Thanksgiving day!

We still have a few monarchs drifting through, running late on their migration.

The blue on this butterfly looks like glitter!

I’ve only seen this kind of butterfly once–the yellow ones are much more common.

Some more shots of the gorgeous swallowtail butterflies who have been visiting the coneflowers over the past few weeks.

Another calm butterfly, nicely posing.