It's rained here the last couple of days and that always results in some mushrooms. These delicate little mushrooms, probably a Coprinus sp., grow in clusters on rotting wood of deciduous trees on the creek flood plane after rain. Each mushroom cap is 1/4-in to 3/8-in diameter and sits on a stalk about 1-1/2-in tall. 
It usually lands on a flower with wings open and, after a few seconds…
folds them until it flies to another flower. The underwing patches that are white in refracted light appear like silver in reflected light.
For the record, it's a Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)...
Several young, small female Eastern Amberwing dragonflies were testing their wings in a wildflower patch in the field. They were landing on these Virginia Plantain (Plantago virginica) seedheads and testing their wings. A few days latter they were gone.
This is the first time I’ve tried to take an ‘in motion’ shot. It only worked because the fly was hovering for some time and I was just lucky to get the focus right. The fly is a Yellowjacket Hover Fly (Milesia virginiensis). It was hovering, waiting to visit a Sicklepod Coffeeweed (Senna obtusifolia). It hovered for a short time and then flew - it was surprising how loud it was - at the flower, scattering other flies already on the flower. It apparently decided it didn’t really want the flower at all and settled on a nearby leaf. Territorial behavior? 
Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) - Female
Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) - Female
Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) - Male 
Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) - Male 
It usually sits with wings folded.
It sits and flicks its wings open intermittently but rarely holds them open long enough to get a photo. I stalked this particular butterfly for some time and captured many images before I succeeded in getting a good photo of it with its wings open.
Usually, they work the flowers with their wings folded.
Rarely, they sit with wings open.
Its wings are usually folded. In some lights, the gold and silver patches on the wings are dull. In the right light these patches are brilliant metallic gold and silver. 
It is unusual to see this butterfly with wings unfolded. Yesterday, this butterfly settled on a blackberry leaf and displayed its open wings for enough time for me to capture this image.
Another common springtime woodland moth. 
Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) [male]
Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) [male]
Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) [female]
I first saw this butterfly with its wings folded, I thought it was a Spring Azure.
Later, when I saw the pattern on its open wings, I realized it was a Summer Azure. It’s rare to see one of these butterflies settle with open wings; this butterfly sat for some time like this.
Occasionally one will pose with its wings open, but not very often. 
This is it’s usual pose, wings folded. They do have the prettiest eyes.
A mail box (in the middle) and a couple of paper boxes (left hand side, county paper; right hand side, city paper). Right?
Wrong. Well, it’s true that the middle box IS a mail box - a functional mail box. But we don’t get the county paper anymore because it really doesn’t have any news of interest. And the folks who deliver the city paper have long since forgotten that the city paper is supposed be put in the city paper box. We grumble about the fact that the folks who deliver the city paper seem to have forgotten that there is a paper box when they throw our paper in the general direction of the drive. Perhaps, at the moment, that’s a blessing. At the moment, it has a much more noble purpose. It is serving as a nest box for a Carolina Wren. W and J have seen the wren bomb out of the box when disturbed. We don’t know how many eggs she laid but there are three chicks.
Alive and well and…
with great gaping maws when anything that might deliver a meal approaches.
The first time, I spooked one in the woods and it landed on a plant in an opening where W and J had dug a pool to encourage frogs to breed. This butterfly spent a few minutes on the plant before to flew off into the woods again.
The second butterfly I was able to photograph was in the woods. Again I spooked it and it landed on the trunk of a nearby tree. I was able to make my way through the brush and take several photos.
This butterfly spent more time with its wings in an open display.
This Eastern Comma (summer form) had selected one of these sunny patches to alight and warm itself. Its wings were closed most of the time but occasionally it would flick them quickly open and closed again. When I disturbed it by moving too close, it would fly off, circle around and land again in the same patch of sunlight. If it hadn’t been for the cold days and the sunny patches on the path, I probably would never have seen this butterfly.
