Butterflies and Hummingbirds
This morning as I was beginning to bring hanging baskets out for the display racks for Mother’s Day, I reached up for a basket and there sat a butterfly. I thought it was a silk butterfly put in the basket for decoration as it is only May 9th! When I started to pull the basket down, the butterfly, with its wings still wet, flew to the ground. In amazement, we watched him move his wings ever so slowly, and Heidi picked him up and set him amongst the branches of one of the flowering crabapples we had in our display.
This is a Yellow Swallowtail butterfly. We have watched him for over an hour just clinging to the branch of the tree, drying his wings. After posting this on our website, I pulled this picture over to my computer desktop. This is a moment I don’t want to forget for awhile!
To add more excitement to our Sunday morning, the hummingbirds are back. In the front of the greenhouses we have a large display of our annuals and planters full of colorful flowers for Mother’s Day and this is obviously attracting the hummingbirds. While it is still quiet, they are flitting here and there from flower to flower. What a wonderful way to start a Sunday!
