Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help with ID please, 0 by okus

okus wrote:
I'm hoping Kennedyh or some other butterfly buff can help out here.
I snapped this one today in my yard, just after a torrential thunderstorm so the poor thing is a bit battered. Looking it up in my books I think it is most like a winter female Tailed Orange on the underside. However it wasn't orange on top, at first I thought it was white, but on closer inspection it was more a deep cream. The front wing tips had dark edges on top but it would only settle with them shut and was very busy on the move so I couldn't catch the topside. Any hope of an ID?