Montage

I don't often resort to collages, but after a while I'm sure you get fed up of butterfly shots and dragonfly shots and, and... no? Ok then.

The morning was taken up with collecting Charlie from wherever she ended up after the Forward Festival in Bristol yesterday, then driving her and the huge bike box to Bristol Airport. 

That meant the camper van, and that led me to drive through the congestion zone for the first time ever (note to self, probably need to pay for that...). I'm coming to the conclusion it would have been cheaper to buy her a new bike in Lisbon!

Anyhow, back home agin and I can't be bothered to paint in what might be the last hot, dry day for a while (one can hope), so I picked up on the butterfly survey I'd set aside for the month I was away, and went looking.

Lots of common blues, and a couple of whites and a speckled wood I didn't photograph, and this small copper in bottom right. 

You can see the differences and similarities perhaps in the Common Blue and the Brown Argus I shot in the 14th...

And then I stuck in the common darter who was back on the lavender again this afternoon, peering at me thoughtfully...