The other day I was sitting out on our screened in porch and I noticed a ton of monarch butterflies fluttering around my mums.  I ran inside to grab my camera, giddy with excitement that my backyard was a stop on the migration trail.  I don’t remember seeing a monarch since my elementary school days when we would hatch them and then release them into the wild.

Once I started snapping pictures I realized these butterflies looked different from what I remembered.  After I got a few good shots I went inside to look up pictures of monarch butterflies.  That is when I discovered I did not have beautiful, delicate monarch butterflies in my backyard.  I had fat, furry painted ladies, which technically still is a butterfly, but they have that gross furry body like a moth.  In my mind, if it looks like a moth, that totally makes it a moth.

Oh well, I still got some cool pictures, with my point and shoot camera no less!