A different take on the same butterfly posted earlier but from Tim.

I’ll have to catch up with comments later as I’ve been overwhelmed at work lately in the mornings.

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I had planned to end this gallery, but we went back to the 700-acre Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, D.C., to take another stab at photographing one of the resident herons. Along the way to the marsh we saw lots of other things, including more lotuses, water lilies and dragonflies.

The Great Egret encounter: Was it something I said? posted earlier: