Butterflies & Bees

The weather has been great.  I've started planting in my garden, I know shame on me for being late but our weather just hasn't been right lately.  Yesterday the kids and I planted 25 mystery tomatoes.  Well most of them are a mystery because Dallas can't remember what the abbreviations stand for, she's the one who picked up my tomatoes for me.  Any idea what GN, E, or T might be?  I figured out that GD is gardener's delight, R is roma, BB is bush beefsteak, and YP is yellow pear but the other's have me stumped.  I have one last tomato to put in the Topsy Turvy planter that Grandma gave me for my birthday and I'm about done with tomatoes.


I've also planted six peppers, all I know is "there's every colour but red" so Dallas says.  My oldest daughter needs a pen and paper to write these things down for me!  I still have beets, cucumbers, peas and whatever else I can find to stick in the ground.  I'm using my whole garden this year but everything is so spread out that I can run a rotatiller pretty much everywhere, goodbye weeds!  (You realize those words are going to come back and bite me in the ... uh huh).



Today I was determined to get some shots of the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly but when I went outside I couldn't see a one.  I took a few pics of some honeybees swollen with pollen instead.






I caught this bee in mid flight.






Then I came in the house to upload my camera card.  As I was sitting here a butterfly flies past the window, I quickly get up and look out at my pink lilac bush and lo and behold there's a whack of them!  Now it's a scramble for my other card, grab the camera and run... it was worth it because the pictures turned out great.  The butterflies are so beautiful :)



This one has a bee and a butterfly in the pic.








Seeing double here.












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