With all the smoke in the air this week, we haven’t been outside that much. I did run out to snap this picture of my first purple coneflower bloom. I haven’t seen any butterflies on it, but tons of insects have been crawling all over it. Here’s hoping for some butterbird sightings for the cats (yes, anything that flies is a bird in Goldy’s eyes) and for some rain to put out some of these fires…
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Purple coneflower