We took the opportunity to get a photo of the four of us in the house before going into the backyard.

Jan and Steve, chasing butterflies around the flower beds

One of the native sunflowers in the peace bed did really well this year.

A couple of Shasta daisies, a tropical milkweed and an aster, all blooming in the peace bed

Turk's Cap in bloom in the round bed

Thoroughwort/Boneset and Cypress vine, blooming in the big trellis bed

Surprise lily, in bloom in the bulb bed

Goldenrod, on the east fence

Goldenrod

Peppermint Crepe Myrtle and Vitex/Chaste tree in southeast square bed

Goldfish in the pond

Red water lily

Red water lily

White water lilies

Our pond

The "un-pond" bed, with Texas Star hibiscus, thoroughwort, swamp sunflower and white smartweed

Buttonbush, along the back fence

Swamp Sunflower blooms

Swamp Sunflower and white Smartweed blooms

Live Forever and Goldenrod (and maybe some fleabane) in the grove bed

Coleus, in the middle hosta bed

Coleus

One of the Angel Wing Begonias we put in pots outside

Tattered Gulf Fritillary

Orange-crowned Warbler, on the west side of the yard

White water lilies

There was a cloud of insects in the back of the yard.

Surprise lilies

Gulf Fritillary, laying eggs on a Passionflower vine

Swallowtail butterfly, on Tropical Milkweed

Black Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary on lantana

Black swallowtail on lantana

Gulf Fritillary

Gray Hairstreak on Woolly Croton

Gray Hairstreak, Strymon melinus