Beautiful Butterflies

Today, my garden was graced with not only the monarch butterflies who are migrating, but by my most favorite butterfly - the yellow and black swallowtail!  The reason I love this butterfly so much is because she is not camera-shy, at all!  I can get as close to her with my camera as I'd like and she just keeps crawling over the blooms!  And, if she does flit away, she is soon back.

Whereas the monarch butterflies are really skittish and I have to stand a considerable distance away and use the zoom function on the camera, in order to capture their beauty.

So, here are two of my favorite butterflies!