Dumb Luck and Butterflies

So anyone in the garden today would have been treated to the vision of me bending nearly double, sliding my phone down my leg, looking as graceful as a stork trying to thread a needle.

The reason was because, as I was trying to take photos with my SHINY NEW MACRO LENS, a Red-Spotted Purple butterfly had just landed on my pants.

I will never be a great photographer--I've seen too many great photos and I know I'll never hit that--but I am occasionally a lucky one. And also my pants attract butterflies, and c'mon, that's gotta be worth something!