A Comma, Cuke, Chips, and Curlycup

Sunday I took a drive up the NE side of the Hills, into Vanocker Canyon and then E on County Rd 168, exiting via Bethlehem Rd...

Along Box Elder Creek, I discovered a grey comma butterfly...its wings constantly opened and closed and this was the only shot of many with the wings fully open...

Same area, the wild cucumbers are still green...those spines aren't actually sharp...

I need a dragonfly field guide to ID these 'colorless' ones...also along Box Elder Creek...

I stopped at one of the Centennial Trailheads and walked a short way down the trail...coming upon not one but four chipmunks...I snapped three, starting with this one (above and below)...

Chip Number Two...nibbling...

Chip Number Three, who was a bit comical flip-flopping on weak twigs or stems trying to reach the dying bee balm blossoms...more nibbling...

The curlycup gumweed (love that name!) is in bloom and the sulphur butterflies love it...

My first shot of a sulphur with open wings and its not sharp, but you get the idea...the clouded and orange sulphurs can be found all over S Dakota...I think this is a female (black border incomplete), either clouded, orange, or Christina...

The Western virgin's bower is in fruit, with its white silky beaks...it's a vine that has white blossoms first...from the Buttercup Family. Quite unique and a favorite of mine. Seeing  it signals the very end of the blooming season, and that leaves one other unique flower left to photograph. Maybe.