Sunshine brings out the butterflies and rainbows
Wow! today there was a bit of sunshine. I felt a change in my spirit as I drove to work (camera-less) chasing a beautiful colourful rainbow that always seemed illusively just ahead of me. Could all this dreary rainy weather be coming to an end? Gosh I hope so! Then my hubby sent me some photos of the butterfly activity going on in my garden. Ulysses butterflies are SO hard to photograph as they tend to close their wings when they feed. Maybe these were drunk on sunshine after all the rain. Spreading open their wings to catch every last drop of it! Here there is just a glimpse of the iridescent blue. There was a whole colony of them in these bushes alongside the pool. Greedily sucking up the nectar. Showing off their lovely colours. Look at the dangly ends to the wings - so beautiful :) Gosh I sure hope they have found my Uodia tree t...