Wind-flowers of 2012

The high temperature in my neck of the woods today never got out of the teens, with a constant, biting wind. I don't have much of a problem with this kind of weather unless icy roads are involved, but I can tell that my wife is getting more sensitive to below freezing weather. Got me to thinking about the spring and summer to come - warm, humid....mosquitoes and wood nettles scratching the hell out of me, killing ticks.....Yep, you may get the sense that I would be alright with a short summer and a longer autumn and winter. But I do love the wild flowers and butterflies (or "wind-flowers" as I like to call them) that show themselves during the summer, and last year I even got some decent pics of some :

 

One of the more interesting butterfly photos I got was of this one flying and it's probiscus just kind of hanging down. I would think that it would be curled up and tucked under during flight - 

Anyone anxious for summer, yet? Or are we in no big hurry?

Take care -