My neighbor, without realizing, has the most wonderful array of flowers that attract butterflies. exico, Central America, West Indies, and parts of South America). Today this lovely Gulf Fritillary was feasting there. The underside of the wings are brownish/orange with elongated silvery white spots. Adults are migrating southward to frost-free portions of their range (Southern U.S. south through MI’ll post a pic of the upper wings later.

Taken in Cancun on the Gulf many many moons ago, we had just spend a week travelling around the Yucatan peninsula.

Cancún is a city in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez. The city is on the Caribbean Sea and is one of Mexico's easternmost points.

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San Marcos, Hays County, Texas

May be a bit old and tattered...still beautiful!

My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!

Not often, the opposite coast of Thermaikos gulf is visible from the city seaside.

“Every natural action is graceful.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jurmo village, The Gulf of Finland.

From Gulf of Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey

Just natural bokeh from the swamp; no texture.

I was thrilled to see this beauty was still hanging around when I visited the swampy area today. Flower is iron weed.

I can't get close enough with my micro lens for this beauty; it is elusive so I use a telephoto.

Light on the path.

Morning on the Gulf of Mexico at the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

These beauties never cease to dazzle as they flit about the yard. It looks like my day will be filled with gorgeous colors and patterns.

Actually, my days are always filled with gorgeous colors and patterns. It's just that August and September seem to be prime time for my little flying jewels.

Have a beautiful day and happy snapping.

Six Mile Cypress Preserve, Fort Myers, FL.

The day begins on a Galveston, Texas, beach.

Emerson Point Preserve, Palmetto, Florida

I don't think anyone goes hungry on Bolivar Flats although some fare better than others in the process. On the poorer side in this case is a small crab, snatched by a Willet from a shallow tidal pool at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.

Thanks for looking!

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Gulf Fritillary butterfly on backyard zinnia - Morgan County, Alabama -

July 12, 2022

Agraulis vanillae

Migration is on along the texas Gulf Coast.

Photo taken Misty Mountain-Gulf of Lune Sim in SL

A hawaiian butterfly sitting on our bougainvillea bushes by our lanai. Wailea Maui Hawaii