Swallowtail and Pumpkin

The weather has been so amazing all month - it hardly feels like October! I absolutely love filling these days with garden work - and painting the fruits of my labor!  The butterflies and bees have been abundant on the cosmos still going strong on the front porch.  They land on the pumpkins between blooms - so HAD to capture it in paint!  I am planting those cosmos seeds in all my beds as I ready them for winter because they have been glorious all season with hardly any tending.  Now that's what I need more of in my beds! Painting number 5050 in 5050 days. 

Sunflower Swallowtail

 

The garden is the perfect place for painting sunny blooms and butterflies! I've had so many butterflies in the garden lately, and these wild sunflowers are a magnet for all the pollinators.  I only wish they'd stay put a little longer, so I could study their marks.  This rainy day sure opened up to clear blue skies.  This painting is number 4634 in 4634 days, and is headed for Powell Gardens next Tuesday.