Since it prooved quite difficult to find a photo in my archive that illustrated the word “to falter” I dediced to go German instead. Falter is an alternative word for Schmetterling or in English: butterfly. You might see a similarity to the Italian farfalle. And … Continue reading Falter
In case somebody is wondering: the butterfly is called a little skipper in English (braunkolbiger Braun-Dickkopffalter in German, a real mouthful: Brown-spadixed brown thick head butterfly); the eye is from an Egyptian goose; the background is an orange daylily. In order to isolate the butterfly … Continue reading All Eyes on You
I learned that this Admiral belongs to the brush footed or four footed butterflies (they stand on four legs and curl the other two up). I checked – this fellow does what is expected of him. Monday Portrait and Macro Monday
Two painted ladies, one natural, one literal. And a bonus orange: Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Mainly Orange
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Great cabbage white and vervain Bee on daisy and bee on daisy star Cape gooseberry, caught Smoketree plume on the beach and damselfly on another damselfly Maple wings on snow Small cabbage white on clover Lens-Artists Challenge #300: Delicate
making me quite dizzy this early in the season! The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Arrival of Spring
The trees have started to blossom and I was delighted to see the first bees out and about collecting pollen. And I received a superb gift from Mother Nature in the form of the first butterfly of the season. I believe its a red admiral … Continue reading A Superb Surprise
“Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?”“It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or a flower. It takes time, … Continue reading Of Beer, Butterflies and Peace
nowadays I’m only known as a red admiral.
According to Wikipedia, the red admiral butterfly was formerly known as the red amirable.
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