The garden is in full bloom, and a monarch came to visit the back garden beds today. My work killing lawn is paying off!
Monarch on Zinnia
Wind dancer grass and purple top verbena
Mexican sunflower
Monarch on butterfly weed
Back bed from side
Echinacea
Back left beds
Cleome in back bed
Cabbabe white butterfly on purple top verbena
Bumblebee on echinacea
Back center beds
Shastas and liatris
The front is starting to fill in as well.
Front bed
Shasta daisies
Bachelor button
Front beds
Zinnias out front
Dill out front
Front bed from chair
Andrea's Gardening Blog 
We used to know the cabbage white butterfly as the cabbage looper. I still think of them as such. I do not know if I have ever seen a real cabbage looper. I would not have recognized it. I do not know what it looks like. The cabbage white butterflies seemed to be even more disorganized that other butterflies, and flew in vertical ‘loops’ over the mustard that grew as a cover crop in the orchards. They were even more abundant when the mustard got cut. I do not know why. Now that the orchards are gone, so is the mustard, and so are the cabbage loopers.
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