The catalpa is blooming like crazy and smells a little fragrant.

For your enjoyment, some pics of my poison ivy.

(It ain't easy to get these things to line up as I want... and then, when you have them in some sort of passable order, they look different when they are actually published...)



And, I thought this was the same butterfly I saw yesterday until I compared the two. This one has more of an angular leading edge. The other one has white spots along the trailing edge.