Butterfly Bush

My youngest teen works at a research nature facility this summer. She forgot her laptop today, so I had to drive it out to her over my lunch hour. Thus, my only glimpse of nature today. The facility has some gorgeous plants, designed to attract butterflies and bees (I am kind of a chicken about the bees, sorry). It was delightful, to see all these butterflies enjoying the lunch buffet. They are fast moving, though! :)

Thanks very much for your kind comments regarding yesterday's stairway shot from Union Station. This is a lovely place, not to be missed if you are traveling through St. Louis.

[Graeme Stevens]

Excellent shot, great DOF

[Jane Anderson]

Beautiful with great detail!

[Debbie]

perfect

[Taffy]

Brilliant capture! Looks like he's in flight about to balance on a leaf. The details you captured are really impressive.

[Pam Knowler]

Fabulous capture of a beautiful butterfly! Fav!

[Emiko]

Gorgeous!!

[philip maddever]

very nice profile and pose

[MoyaC]

Lovely DOF

[Shelley Gibson]

Great shot

[Eric di Bosco]

Gorgeous - with it's sharp focus it really stands out against the background.

[Sam]

It's a real beauty! FAV

[gloria jones]

Beautiful

[Jill Hempsall]

Wow - great capture.

[Danny G.]

Stunning capture of this black beauty - fav

[Graham Thresher]

A magnificent capture.

[Yeshanghai]

Absolutely gorgeous! Amazing POV, details, and colors. FAV

[Christine Webb]

Gorgeous fav

[Lxxx]

Awesome detail and composition and colours!

[Tineke]

and what a glimp amazing macro

[Sally Ings]

Unusual looking butterfly, fabulous capture

[Tanja R]

Wow, perfect composition!

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Beautifully captured fav!

[DbJ]

Outstanding focus

[Gayle Sears]

Such a pretty capture.

[Tom]

Stunning instant fav

[Ukandie!]

Super capture and great focus. I am hopeless at getting anything that moves.

[Rachel]

This sounds like a really interesting place to visit (I'm eyeing my macro lens as I write!). A lovely capture of this long legged butterfly.

[Jane Pittenger]

So so gorgeous. Had to come back and look again