Butterflies, Dragonflies, and Fish

Calibrachoa

Eastern Swallowtail on tall phlox

Viceroy 

The perpendicular stripe on the hind wings and the smaller size tells you this look-alike is not a Monarch.

Purple coneflowers

Calibrachoa

Tall lavender phlox

Celosia

Tabby

Miniature petunias

Hosta blossoms

Miniature rose

Daylily

Tall lavender phlox

Teensy

Double knock-out rose

Bee on purple coneflower

Daylilies

Teensy

Hollyhocks

Teensy waiting for me to open the patio door... 

(shirts on the clothesline)

"I give up; it's too hot here!"

"Gotta find me some shade..."

"...right over here..."

"Ahhh.  That's bettah."

But when I walked away and went around the house, the poor hot kitty had to faithfully follow me.

Tabby

He's nervous because the sprinklers are on, and he knows he might get sprayed.

Cats don't understand that they should run through when the sprinkler turns and the water isn't hitting them.

Instead, they tiptoe slowly along, carefully creeping through -- and of course the sprinkler comes on around and douses them a good one.  They then fly back the way they came, instead of coming on forward.

Of course, both cats stay out in the rain, even when there's a pouring deluge.  Cats.

Snapdragon

Miniature petunia

Band-winged Meadowhawk (Sympetrum semicinctum)

Band-winged Meadowhawk (Sympetrum semicinctum)

He looks sort of like he had surgery, and someone forgot to sew him back up again.

Clouded sulphur

Cabbage white

Cabbage white

Monarch on purple coneflower

Monarch on purple coneflower

Mud dauber

Monarch

Daylilies

Daylily

Daylily

Apple

Daylilies

Red admiral

Red admiral

... and away it goes.

Victoria's goldfish

"Food!  Food!!!"

"Com'on, food!!!"

"Well?"

"Hey!  Food!"

Cherry barb

Tiger barbs

Albino plecostomus

This plecostomus is growing fast.