Caught some afternoon "popcorn" showers

A bit of rain encourages everything.
While the vegetables are long gone, any perennials that surived the drought have bloomed.


These echinacea are a coupla years old, the constant drought has resulted in some incredible dwarfing... of the ones that didn't die...








The clasping heliotrope are incredibly drought proof, and the tigerswallowtail butterfly is happy to feed on this native delight.






Tree-frog onna milkweed Asclepias syriaca... They aren't going to eat the monarchs, are they?




Speaking of which...
The monarchs are back!!
Monarchs take their time getting to middle GA. I saw some monarch caterpillars in the Spring, and was surprised by the unusual earliness of the sighting, I don't know what happened to those out of time babies... these guys are right on schedule.




Always fun watching butterfly mating rituals...















There were no persimmons last year, I'm seeing some fruit this year!