A Queen and Purple Mist

While walking from the Pearl parking lot to the Bat Loco gathering at the Camden St bridge, I passed a section of the riverbank with a large planting of Purple Palmleaf Mistflowers. Dancing from flower to flower were a large number of Queen butterflies. It was a photo op I couldn't pass up:

Queen butterflies are close cousins of the Monarch butterfly in the Genus Danaus. The two have similar appearances and are sometimes confused with each other.

This set of photographs was taken on the Museum Reach of the San Antonio River on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.