Hasn't the weather been amazing lately?? This morning was particularly beautiful with mist shrouding the landscape, softening the hard edges, giving an air of mystery to the commonplace. I was rather sorry when it lifted. However, once the sun burned it away, the temperature rose and it was a really perfect day. It certainly made for some moody photos with that wonderful soft lighting as the sun broke through the mist. Naturally, it brought out lots of wildlife as well. There were even insects around, including about 6 grasshoppers, a greenbottle fly, a few yellowjackets, some flies that looked like they could be Tabanids, and a lovely hover fly which looks like it is probably either an Epistrophe sp. or a Syrphus sp. It was on a golden alexander in the new area of the Butterfly Meadow where about half a dozen of these plants are still in bloom. Just below the FWG in the Arboretum, was a clouded sulphur butterfly.