Morning photos of Florida

I was in the mood to take photos the other morning, it had been raining all night and the yard looked so fresh and new. I don't know what it is about being outside and seeing all the glory of our world, but there just is nothing quite like it.

This butterfly lay's its eggs on the Passion flower it is the purple flower that looks so crazy that I posted a photo of before.
This is just one of the many bugs that likes to crawl around the yard.
I found this mushroom next to the fort Will built with the boys. Its amazing to me that they come up and die in one day.

This is a flower on a vine that I have been working on growing for about 3 years now, and it is finally blooming I'm so happy.

This bush blooms all year round. the only time it did not have flowers was after the freeze that killed so much of my plants.

This flower is on that I have not looked at much it is a wild flower and it grows all over the yard it likes to grow in the middle of the lawn and unfortunately it gets mowed over.

This flower blooms in big bunches all over the bush. Butterfly's love to drink the nectar.

This is also a flower that grows on a bush in my yard. This is also a tasty treat for humming birds and butterflies

This flower is called a Dutchman's pipe. the Caterpillar below eats this. I have not been able to take a photos of the butterfly yet but later this summer they will be all over and I will post a photo. The green thing hanging down in the front of the bloom is the bud you can see how it looks like an old time pipe. This flower is over 10 inches long and 5 to 6 wide.

This is a kind of Swallow tail butterfly.

This is a male lizard. It flaps the orange thing down to attract the girls...ooo lala

Eating some nectar from some Porter Weed.

If you click on the photos it will make the larger so you can see them better. I hope you enjoyed a trip into our backyard.