Meadowlark - close up

 

As well as the vistas and reflections, Meadowlark yesterday was still full of little details of colour and life.  

These pink grasses - swathes of them - looked like fireworks or sparklers.

 

These grasses had not yet been dried by the sun and so were covered in tiny jewel-like droplets of water.

 

Also like jewels the vivid fruit of the Purple Berry plant.

 

Beautiful Gentian in the rockery garden, seemed a little out of place at this time of year.

 

We saw several butterflies who were too quickly gone to photograph - and this handsome furry creature, as yet unidentified.

 

No doubt at all what this is - the Monarch caterpillar, one of a number chomping steadily through some favourite Milkwood plants.  It seems late in the year. It perhaps this is one of the final generation of the seasonal cycle who will make the long journey back to Mexico for the winter hibernation.