While working in the garden, I came across several wee friends… some old, some new…

I love these brown Mantis ladies. The mantis population is very good here in the garden. If only they ate Japanese beetles! Regardless, they are always welcome.

I interrupted an intimate moment between two Grasshoppers on the Royal Red Butterfly bush. The grasshoppers are always very populous here – though they are a little less so in the catio yard, thanks to a certain ginger kitty we brought home.

This moth (either a corn earworm, or a cowpea moth – Google can’t decide) was making the most of the warm sunny day.

There was a Cabbage White butterfly getting what she could out of the pink pincushion plant out front. The pincushion plant is very popular among the Cabbage Whites.

And a bumblebee was taking the opportunity to get a little nectar from the lavender.

Absolutely everybody was getting ready for the coming cold weather.

I better go stock the bird feeder…