Here is E’s latest greatest homemade everything pizza, featuring homegrown tomatoes and basil.  And here are a zucchini and yellow squash from the garden.

It’s still blazing hot and humid out, and pollinators are having a field day.  I was fortunate to see this (I think) beautiful black swallowtail butterfly on the zinnias.  Hummingbirds continue to hang out there; one buzzed my head while I was taking photos.  There are lots of flowers for them all to choose from.

And then, I witnessed this gorgeous butterfly–it’s not a monarch, though with similar deep orange, black, and white markings, but smaller; the white splotches look like mother-of-pearl, and the whole upper side of the wings is orange.  It was a sight to see.  OK, found the ID–it’s a gulf fritillary.