Isn’t what? Isn’t June, or at least, not anymore… or at least, not anymore once the day is out. It’s the end of the month, is what I’m saying terribly, and that means the end of the month abstract. Let’s see, I had it lying around here somewhere… oh, wait, is this it?
Well, if it’s not, it’ll have to do, because I can’t find anything else. I kind of had the month-end in mind for the past week, but nothing else struck my fancy, so we have this close-up of the flowers of an orange milkweed, or butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa,) with an ant that I failed to notice at the time. There’s actually more than one, if you look close, and I don’t have a clear enough view to determine one way or another, but it might be those little fucking fire ants, since we have too many of them in the yard. The milkweed, however, was specifically purchased to attract pollinators, with the hopes that eventually we’ll have a small field of them established. My efforts to do this through seeds, for several different species, have all been in total vain, so this was a potted plant, and we may add more next year if this one thrives; so far, so good.
Two of the three transplanted butterfly bushes have been doing well, though, with the third faltering but appearing to rally now; I need to stake some of these out to get pics of what’s visiting them, but right at the moment (the past 2-3 weeks at least,) this means sitting out in the sweltering sun, so it might wait for a break in the weather. Unless someone shames me into acting like a real nature photographer and braving the weather without whining…