Day 66 of my 365 day challenge. What to shoot today? I hadn’t been outside much and I don’t like to take pictures inside if I can help it – much prefer the outdoors. The light was beginning to fade, it was very late afternoon. I spied a butterfly in the scrub behind our house and followed it around for awhile but it wouldn’t open its wings. And then as I was just about to give up it moved and I got this shot, which really appealed to me. I hope you like it too.

This butterfly had the sunlight shining on it giving a look as though its wings were very fragile, almost like a tissue. And you can see they’re looking ragged as though torn or worn away.

Another butterfly – saw a real lot of these flying around everywhere, alighting on trees, fences, flowers, the ground and sometimes flying in twos – I was never quick enough to get a shot of two together.

Back at one of my favourite places to walk, Lysterfield Lake Park is brimming with butterflies and dragonflies at this time of the year.  This is one of the butterflies I saw when walking last weekend. It had beautiful markings under its wings whereas most seem to be rather pale in comparison

I have a friend who knows lots about bugs and things – I’m hoping he might come to my rescue and identify my butterflies