Wandering around at Hartman Arboreteum......

A couple weeks ago we stopped at Hartman Arboretum to see if the flowers were blooming and attracting butterflies for me to photograph yet.  Not too much blooming yet that they like, but Mike also got to check on their blueberry plants and went back this week and picked a couple pounds of them.

I love these hydrangeas.

Part of the "butterfly garden".

They have a woods where they are trying to grow some ferns and such in hollowed out logs and along the trails.  I enjoyed wandering around there taking photos of the plants and fungi.

I like this log.

A pretty fern.

There was an interesting assortment of fungi growing on the logs.  I don't know names but will just post the photos I like.

This one was down inside one of the hollow logs and I thought it looked the most interesting.

Back up in the meadow I kept chasing Red-Wing Blackbirds that must have their nests hidden deep in the grasses.  This female had a mouth full of bugs.

Milkweed flowers and bugs.

I also have a few photos from Mouteau Park......a Silvery Checkerspot

Damselfly....don't know name

Comma butterfly deep in the weeds.