So, my enthusiasm for photographing this beautiful park is waning. I've got numerous posts on it, we go here to swim in the summer often. We love the cold water and the park, but photographing it. Well I wasn't excited today. I took the camera, I didn't anticipate any great photography to happen. I thought "why am I photographing this place...AGAIN." But, after I got there and went out in the creek for a while I was getting some nice macro shots and then this stunning butterfly few up on the only flower in sight. I don't know what kind of butterfly this is, but it is one of the more beautiful ones.
I was like WOW! Look at that orange! Brilliant! And then I was excited about photography and knew I had a good subject.
What a pop of color - in the greenery of the Travertine Creek.
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."
R.H. Heinlein
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Rabindranath Tagore
And you think you'd like to gather it up and take it home. Because it is so beautiful, but you know it would die, and no longer flutter among the greenery.
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
Maya Angelou
"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Butterflies are beautiful because of their symmetry, the beautiful perfect symmetry of a butterfly, its uneven wings, filled with its lines and angles. The deceptive designs of evolution. The work of god, no matter what you believe these tiniest of creatures whose lives are brief bring us, humans awe and wonder.
In the shadows even butterflies can have an air of mystery and darkness.
The butterfly got it's own post. Beautiful little butterfly. I thought the butterflies I photographed earlier this spring were amazing, but whatever this little one is - is pure beauty.
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