Jude and I are now back home in Switzerland. We were only away for a month, but to look at the garden you would think it was for 3 months! Had it not been for the local farmer cutting a swathe down our drive and through our field, (pic A1), I’m sure we would have had difficulty finding the chalet! Various things had popped up in the lawn around the chalet. Well, I say lawn, but it’s just a mixture of grass and weeds really. And it was doing its best to encroach onto our pebbled ‘beaches’.
This of course meant that the local wildlife were in abundance. Not for nothing is our chalet called Les Criquets, though the crickets are way outnumbered by the grasshoppers!
And, where there are flowers, there are inevitably butterflies… 😊
Alittlebitoutoffocus 
Great butterfly captures. 😊
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Thank you Irene. I have a few more to post, but I’m not sure if I’ll get the opportunity this week.
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I look forward to seeing more whenever you can post them. 😊
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I’ll do my best. I know there are a few butterfly fans out there… 😊
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Your “lawn” looks very similar to ours! All those blow ins constantly arriving from the countryside round and about – no point trying to tame it. And I’m guessing, anyway, you like it almost as much as much as the butterflies clearly do. Quite a variety. Love the orange-gold one with the dark border.
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Yes, we leave the ‘field’ (seen in pic 1) to do its own thing. The farmers come twice a year to cut it all down to store for the cows in winter.
The area around the chalet we try to keep looking something like, but it will never look like the Centre Court! I didn’t have the time to look up the butterflies, but I’m presuming the orange one is a Scarce Copper (Heodes virgaureae). We get a lot of them around here. At least they are easily seen with that bright colour. 😊
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I think you must blame the rain…. 😉
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Yes, I think the weather has been pretty poor around central Europe while we’ve been in the UK. It’s not been that great since we got back either unfortunately!
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It’s still quite lovely. A glass of lemonade or two, or a cold beer, and let the cleanup begin.
The photo of the orange butterfly on the yellow flower should be a greeting card. 👍🏼 Donna
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Thank you Donna, you’re very kind. The grass has now been mown into shape, so everything is back to normal and I’ll enjoy that cold beer! 🍺 Cheers!
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Cheers!
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Wonderful images. A delight to see such beautiful butterflies so well captured 🙂
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Thank you – you’re too kind! I have ‘a few’ more butterflies to post shortly… (So many in fact I’m going to have to split my walk into two parts!)
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Looking forward to seeing them 🙂
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Welcome home! Everything might be a bit overgrown but still lots of beauty and color. Love the butterflies!! I can only imagine what I’ll find when we get home in September after being on the road since May. Thankfully, we have people taking care of things to a point too. 🙂 I know our kids will be very happy to not have to do my mail every day, lol.
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Gosh, that is a long time to be away! Hopefully your kids are paying all the bills as well! 😉 (Lots) more butterflies to see in my post today…
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Geez, I wish! 😉
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It is such fun getting glimpses of your garden – as well as the butterflies and grasshoppers.
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Maybe I should take and post some more pictures as it’s looking a bit tidier now. And the grasshoppers and butterflies are still popping round! 😊
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Such images are always interesting to look at 🙂
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