Fun On Friday! #1

Hello everyone! I am happy to see you here visiting with us again today. Happy Friday to all of you as well! Now the weekend is arriving and we can relax from the working all week and get ourselves refreshed. Getting out in nature is a very good way to get refreshed and get rid of all that built up stress from the week just passed or perhaps the worry of the week coming that is causing stress.

Either way, spending time in nature is a wonderful way to reduce, and even get rid of, stress. Whether we can spend a whole day out hiking with friends, or just spending an hour in a local park by yourself and listen to the birds singing. Sometimes it is good to be alone like that. I nearly always go by myself when out walking. It has been that way most of the time through my life.

A nice bench in a small park overlooking our lake.

Speaking of hiking. No, I am not going hiking, though I wish it were possible. Anyway, back to hiking, which I am not doing, but I was thinking about it and I will talk about something with hiking tomorrow. But I digress. So, the last 3 days there have not been many insects around at all. That is bad when I am trying to get pics of insects and there are none.

Except those Northern Paper Wasps. There are a lot of those, everywhere. They sit on everything, hide in the grass, hide among the daylily leaves and they are quite a nuisance, plus dangerous. But I digress. I figure it has been too cool for the insects, so they are in hiding. Somewhere. Sigh. But I did get a pic of a butterfly that I did not have before.

Mustard White butterfly.

So that is good news. For me at least. The photo is above, it is the Mustard White butterfly . These butterflies are quite common, with a wingspan of 1 and 3/4 inch (44.45mm). The adult butterfly prefers mustard plants or any white or yellow flower. The caterpillars eat plants of the mustard family, mostly wild plants. These butterflies are around all summer, right into late September.

These are different than the Cabbage White that most gardeners are familiar with. Well, time to go out with my camera once more and see what is happening outside. Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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