Butterflies! Butterflies!

So while I was in the middle of the insanity that was my first year of graduate school we have a butterfly invasion, butterflies everywhere, fluttering over the massess of wildflowers that are filling the fields and lush green landscape.  

When this is calling to me outside, and on my computer wanting to be edited..do you know how difficult it is to focus and write a twenty page paper or two...  and then some.  Yeah, for me, not easy. 

I decided to start running again on finals week.  Running kills my anxiety and causes me to procrastinate.  I procrastinate anyways. Butterfly photos cause me to edit butterfly photos.  What a beautiful spring after last Summer's misery.  I'm loving it. I want to be out in it every afternoon now.  

of course when I was shooting that day, I had seven dogs with me (yes seven) - I wouldn't have so many dogs if people would quit dumping them on the side of the road (your public service announcement).   Now, dogs aren't very still and they like lots of attention.  So these peaceful moments really aren't so.  I have told you that photography is an illusion.  It is, you see what I want you to see, no more no less. It is my illusion. I hope you enjoy it.  

I love the butterflies, so pretty. I've never seen so many butterflies at once in my life as I have this spring. Nature is amazing. It was so harsh and unforgiving last summer with the parched earth that I thought would never be green again.  We had such a beautiful green winter and a lush spring.  

There are so many it's easy to get a shot like this around here.  

Gorgeous butterflies are everywhere, they are just beautiful little souls that have a short life but seem to impact us all.  

this one is playing peek-a-boo 

I don't know what these pink flowers are but I adore them. So pretty.  

Stop watching me.  If butterflies think.  I think this one was looking at me.  

It was such a beautiful afternoon out when I shot these, just gorgeous and perfect. 

The white butterflies were shy.  They'd flutter away whenever I tried to get a good closeup shot of them. 

some more of these wonderful pink flowers. 

See what else can I say about these photos?  They're gorgeous, its not me, its just the inherent beauty that is in nature, ever so present and visible in the spring.  

Three on one flower.  

and these are the first of my butterfly pictures, expect more. Soon.  Since I went out on a very long two mile walk with my camera today. I had planned on a 4 mile walk, but two is all I had time for. 

Comments

[Sarah]

These are BEAUTIFUL, Joy! Nice job!

Sarah