For starters, it hasn't rained all day (so far), and the sun has been out all day - this is the first day without rain in quite a while. I mowed my little patch of grass and the grass that grows between the raised beds in my garden.

I finally got a visit from a pipevine swallowtail. Unfortunately, he was a male, so there won't be any eggs, but isn't that coloring gorgeous?

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I wish he'd bring his sister or wife and she'd lay me some eggs!

There were also two male spicebush swallowtails, the female palamedes that's visited before (at least I guess it's the same one) and a giant swallowtail. I watched its movements and looked for eggs, but couldn't find any - he's probably a male, but he's gorgeous too!

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Sherry