Cloudless Sulfur Butterflies and Purple Loosestrife #Wordless Wednesday #Hmm – BUTTER-colored butterflies

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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28 Responses to Cloudless Sulfur Butterflies and Purple Loosestrife #Wordless Wednesday #Hmm – BUTTER-colored butterflies

  3. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    August 14, 2024 at 8:49 am

    How pretty, a flying pat of butter! Purple and yellow are lovely complementary colors.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 14, 2024 at 8:06 pm

      Interesting color for a butterfly isn’t it Barbara? I can’t say I have ever seen a yellow butterfly before and these two were dancing around the Purple Loosestrife so daintily. They are so small, I came home with about 50 shots of them, 40 which were duds, as they flitted right out of the frame many times. Yes, I have used purple and yellow petunias together in pots and they look cheery.

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  4. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    August 14, 2024 at 10:09 am

    Beautiful. Purple and yellow are complementary colors which makes these photos so cool.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 14, 2024 at 8:16 pm

      Thank you Ally! I like those two colors too and have used them in pots or hanging baskets in the past with petunias and it is very pretty. I’ve seen that color combo with pansies too.

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  5. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    August 14, 2024 at 4:41 pm

    Beautiful, Linda! The yellow and purple look pretty together!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 14, 2024 at 8:30 pm

      I thought they looked striking together too Terri. And that is the first time I’ve ever seen a yellow butterfly. The two of them were flitting in and out of the Purple Loosestrife and it really caught my eye.

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  6. Prior...'s avatar Prior... says:
    August 14, 2024 at 6:23 pm

    the wings of the butterflies are in such sync with the leaf shapes – very cool photo

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  7. TD's avatar TD says:
    August 14, 2024 at 6:28 pm

    These two are girl friends spreading the art of butter in their flutter!

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  8. Anne Mehrling's avatar Anne Mehrling says:
    August 15, 2024 at 3:07 am

    Yellow butterflies are common here — Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 15, 2024 at 9:00 pm

      I do see those type of butterflies here, but only twice this Summer. I saw one Monarch and one Viceroy … that’s it, even in places where I have gone in the past and they were everywhere.

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  9. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    August 15, 2024 at 10:13 pm

    Great photos, Linda! 😊 There’s a big pond near me that has Purple Loosestrife and Yellow Sulfur Butterflies.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 15, 2024 at 10:18 pm

      Thank you Tom – I had never seen Yellow Sulfur Butterflies until these and I had to Google to find out what they were. They do look stunning on the Purple Loosestrife.

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  10. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    August 16, 2024 at 12:39 am

    So cool photography. Beautiful yellow butterfly & purple 💜 flowers.

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  11. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    August 17, 2024 at 7:56 pm

    Don’t you just love all the color this time of the year? We have a lot of dark moths but the butterflies seem less and less every year. Love your pictures Linda!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 18, 2024 at 7:17 pm

      Thank you Diane! I do like the purple and yellow combo. Butterflies are scarce here too. This was a first for me seeing this one. I saw a Viceroy last week – I have not seen one of those in a long time.

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  12. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    August 28, 2024 at 10:00 am

    Two beautiful treasures of summer.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 28, 2024 at 5:29 pm

      The colors complement one another so nicely and that was a first for seeing this pretty butterfly. Butterflies have been scarce around here. This morning I saw my first hummingbird as it whizzed past my head. I thought it was a butterfly at first.

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      • Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
        August 29, 2024 at 11:00 am

        I haven’t seen very many either. Mainly the smaller ones. Glad you got to see a hummingbird.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        August 29, 2024 at 8:59 pm

        I was lucky to see the Viceroy and a Monarch and will be using those pictures in an upcoming post. I used to go to Memorial Park a few blocks from where I live as the volunteer garden was full of perennials and full of butterflies. All I’ve seen there this year was an Eight Spotted Moth. I had to Google to figure out what it was. I was excited to see the hummingbird.

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