Some Pictures From Our House

So I decided to post some of my favorite pictures I have taken recently. These were almost all taken before Adriana was born, all except two of the thunderstorm pictures. All the flowers in here are from my butterfly garden. I had put a lot of work into my butterfly garden recently and it's just about complete. All the plants I don't like have been torn out and destroyed or relocated. I get three types of caterpillars and butterflies in my garden. They are specialist and all prefer a certain plant. I have pictures of two of them below, the one I don't have on this post is in a previous post, that would be the Monarch Butterfly.

About 5 or 6 weeks ago I finally found one of my favorite flowers at home depot. I have been waiting for months for these. They are called wishbone or more specifically for the blue ones, "blue wings". They also had pink and one I have never seen called California Gilded Grape which has yellow and purple. I like these flowers because they are showy but they also grow like crazy. They are annuals but when they die, like I experienced when we went to New York a couple years ago, hundreds more grow in their place. If you buy one it's likely the last one you'll need to buy for several years because they will take over like weeds.

Anyways here are my pictures.

Wishbone-Bluewings

Wishbone-Pink

California Gilded Grape

I don't remember what these are called but I got two of them, orange and pink, and put them in this container by the pool.

Orange

Pink

I don't remember the exact name on these. Angelwings or something. They are in my butterfly garden though.

These flowers are on my "sweet almond bush". They are very small flowers, not really showy, but they smell really good in the evening like sweet almonds.

My plumeria is in bloom

The Oleander Caterpillar

The caterpillar of the Florida state butterfly. The Zebra Longwing.

Looking towards W Atlantic Blvd.

Thunderstorm coming in from the Everglades. This one produced a lot of thunder and lightning but to my surprise not a whole lot of rain.

After an evening thunderstorm we had double rainbows behind our house. Not only were there double rainbows but they were both complete rainbows. I have never seen that before.

Backyard after a good storm.