How I was engulfed in happiness while I fritillaried away my time

This handsome butterfly is a gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae, that I found frequenting some Maximilian sunflowers, Helianthus maximiliani, on October 1 at the intersection of Greenlawn Blvd. and Interstate 35 in Round Rock just north of the border with Austin.

© 2015 Steven Schwartzman