An October visitor

 

It is interesting how different flowers attract different butterflies.  This appears to be a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly sipping deeply on the scarlet flowers of the Pineapple Sage.  

This sage has only just begun to bloom; it had me wondering if it would ever bloom, had fooled me, and was really a weed.  They are an annual, and this self-seeded in a flower bed at least 20 feet away from the original one.

The cooler weather makes these smaller butterflies a bit slower on the wing.