Taking a break

Spring is becoming so spectacular that I feel like I'm trying to go forward and backward both at once. By forward, I mean continuing to upload the many photos I've taken on recent outings, and by backward I mean adding the narratives to the several posts I've made so far from those same adventures.  For now, while taking a yard work break, I find that when I go to retrieve a wheelbarrow, rake, of hedge clippers, some interesting bug, like the above Swallowtail Butterfly, intervenes. This is the Western Swallowtail and it is feeding on the flowers of Spreading Dogbane, a relative of the milkweeds.  Click on the photo for a closer view.