Yesterday I was walking to my compost pile to drop off our household veggie and fruit scraps. As I approached the entire compost pile just started to flutter with butterflies feasting on the decomposing oranges, lemons and moldy strawberries. I could not believe how many there were. Butterflies have a very interesting way of camouflaging themselves when threatened as you can see below: Can you spot the butterfly? Trust me, it is there.Two seconds later it opened its beautiful wings and revealed itself to me: A Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis).

Winecup wildflower (Callirhoe involucrata) a very popular wildflower growing in the Hill Country. This one even had a drop to offer!

It can be a bit pushy crowding into neighboring plants. Here it is moving in on a Salvia Gregggii.But  it seems to look good with so many other plants.And the bees love it too.

A crab spider (Misumena vatia) cleverly camouflaged on the flower of a Woolly Butterfly Bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) and waiting on dinner.A little Wolf spider.

The fields in my yard are filled with Wild Garlic, in it’s shades of pink and white, and Blue-eyed Grass, Gaura Lindheimeri waving in the breeze,Fragrant Mimosaand blazing Sunflowers!Salvia ‘Indigo Spires’ reaching for the sky….It’s Spring and we’ve been blessed with rain, sunshine and abundant, thriving wildlife. So many reasons to be filled with joy and gratitude!

A Four Nerve daisy ready to burst open.

Damianita and Mexican Feather Grass looking good in the rock garden.Dew droplets on the fresh new Mexican Feather Grass blades always looks so much better in person as the sun reflects off the droplets and shimmers like little diamonds.Tiny dew droplets on the Woolly Butterflybush.