Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES # 110, 3 by nutsaboutnature

nutsaboutnature wrote:
Oh...so much beauty in just one thread!

We have very few butterflies again this summer. I did see a gorgeous Monarch on some greenery in Evanston, IL right at the shore of Lake Michigan. We were walking around an art fair and, of course, I didn't have a camera.

These three pics are all of the same butterfly though the color looked totally different depending on the sun (or lack of it since we had thunderstorms shortly after I shot these).

It's obviously a Hairstreak, but I'm not sure if it's a Gray or something else.