This lovely Mourning Cloak butterfly was nectaring on the Yoshino Cherry at my back door. The weather has been wonderful for gardening and nature watching this week. If I pull back on this shot, you'd see hundreds of honeybees all over this tree, along with bumblebees and other small visitors enjoying the sweet flowers. It seems Spring sprung in only a moment and all these wonderful creatures were there when it happened. I want to holler at the neighbors "Why are you inside? Come out, come out! The world is happening without you!"
Yoshino's are so fleeting and delicate, like Spring in the South always is. The rains this week will take down most of the petals and then all will turn to green. But then, there's the weeping cherry, and the redbud, and the pawpaw, and the..............Ah, sigh. Life is good.
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