Happy New Year 🖤💙💛🧡 An absolutely stunning female Black Swallowtail. I simply missed posting a photo of this beauty from September. I took dozens of photos of her. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

My first butterfly photo of 2026. My dad, daughter and I went for a two hour hike in the woods of a nature park in the Dallas area yesterday. We saw a Red Admiral, an Orange Sulphur, and this American Lady butterfly. #SaturdayOrange 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

New Year’s Day supper at my parent’s.😋 My wife made the cornbread dressing and the Broccoli Microgreens salad with fresh Persimmon. My dad grilled the pork loin. I made the roasted Delicata Squash and the Cabbage. We cheated on the black-eyed peas (out of a can).

My favorite kind of meal. Of course, best served with a glass of wine. Bon Appétit 😋

My first butterfly photo of 2026. My dad, daughter and I went for a two hour hike in the woods of a nature park in the Dallas area yesterday. We saw a Red Admiral, an Orange Sulphur, and this American Lady butterfly. #SaturdayOrange 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🖤💙💛🧡 An absolutely stunning female Black Swallowtail. I simply missed posting a photo of this beauty from September. I took dozens of photos of her. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🖤 Pipevine Swallowtail fluttering among the Zinnias. First time posting this photo. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🧡 I don’t get many photos of the beautiful Tawny Emperor. Underrated beauty. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 💛🖤 A Tiger that appeared on my birthday last summer. First time posting this photo. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🖤💛 Look at how much bigger the female Tiger (Black form in this case) vs. the male. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🧡🩷 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 💛 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🤎🧡💜🤍 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy New Year!

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… A massive female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Black form) with beautiful sunlight illuminating her. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Orange…🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Huge female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on wild spiky Musk Thistle in our lower meadow. 💛🖤💙 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Zinnias aren’t just for pollinators. The American Goldfinches love the seeds. He’s a true beauty.🖤💛 #Photography99 📷🪶

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Have you hugged a flower today? #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Cloudless Sulphur butterfly 💛💚📷🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… White M Hairstreak butterfly on a grass blade in our upper meadow. This was my first photo of this species. I am now at 61 butterfly species photographed on our acreage. She was number 59. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Silvery Checkerspot butterfly on pink Echinacea 🧡🩷 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Huge female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on wild spiky Musk Thistle in our lower meadow. 💛🖤💙 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas) mates in our upper meadow. Female on the left, smaller male on the right. One of the smallest butterflies in the world at a half inch wingspan. 💞 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Male Spicebush Swallowtail flying around a female perched on a pink Zinnia. 💞 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Groundhog foraging in our middle meadow 🤎💚 #Photography99 📷

Photo Flurry for the last day of 2025… Cloudless Sulphur butterfly 💛💚📷🦋

A year ago today… Love Carolina Chickadees 📷🪶❤️

Random photo spin… Duo of Buckeye butterflies 📷🦋🧡

A year ago today… Love Carolina Chickadees 📷🪶❤️

Only two days until 2026, time for a random spin from 2025… Female Black Swallowtail 📷🦋💙

I almost photographed my last butterfly of the year when I saw a Red Admiral fluttering around our middle meadow today. It wouldn’t settle for me. It was 70° then, before dropping 25° in two hours. 18° will be our low. Here is a Red Admiral butterfly from March, one of my first photos this year.📷🦋

Winter sunset for #SundayYellow 📷💛

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird on Catmint on May 1st. 📷🪶❤️💚

Bendy… A very tiny male Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly on English Plantain wildflower. 📷🦋💙

The stare-down… 📷🦋🧡

Our daughter came home from college in Connecticut in time to celebrate her 18th birthday last week. ❤️

Tufted Titmouse through the looking glass… I love the effect of our window softening the photo. 📷❤️

Random photo spin time… Yay! I loved this little bee on a Saucer Magnolia flower from last Spring. 📷💛🩷🐝

Happy dog on Christmas morning. She’s always happy though.🤍❤️

It’s crazy that we are having mid 70s weather at Christmas. I even got photos of an Orange Sulphur butterfly and a Honeybee in our middle meadow today. I would prefer the cold over my pollinator friends for Christmas. Note the butterfly is on Henbit and the bee is on Red Dead-Nettle. 📷🌱🦋🐝 Merry🎄

Good encapsulation of my musical taste

A visit to Bentonville, Arkansas and the lit up downtown Square. Happy Holidays. #Photography99📷

RFK Jr. and Trumpy will next tax oxygen and ban breathing. 😏 apple.news/AFUpNz69ISNm...

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ Duo of Frost flowers (crystalofolia) in our meadow. Each one is unique. 🤍🤍 #Photography99 📷

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ Frost flower (crystalofolia) in our meadow. 🤍 #Photography99 📷

These Skipper butterflies were having a discussion about what an absolute psychopathic asshole Trump is.