This is some kind of very cool butterfly that I don't remember seeing last year. Not the best shot, but these critters don't stay in one place for very long.
This is what the grape arbor that runs down the middle of the walled garden at Biltmore looks like these days. The grapes are looking pretty healthy and now the squashes are starting to bloom.
Still another flower I really like but have no clue as to its identity.
And another view of the bass pond in the still of a summer morning. Ducks seem to have taken over from the geese, who had their babies here but seem to have moved to the lagoon to hang with the other geese.