Monday, June 1, 2009

Butterflies (number one)

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.

The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.

~ Joyce Kilmer ( Spring )

Here is a link to an earlier blog post with a young boy looking at a beautiful butterfly on his hand: Spring --third photo. This post also has a link to Krohn Conservatory.
photo by me ©2007

13 comments:

  1. Lovely shot,
    beautiful Poem (@^.^@)

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  2. This photos was taken at a butterfly exhibit at Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati. What I like about it is the different ages of the hands all sharing in the joy of holding the butterfly.

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  3. BEAUTIFUL! Are they hands you know?

    ~Lily

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  4. That is beautiful! I have never seen such a vibrantly green butterfly, and I love the difference in hands all together there.

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  5. How did you get that butterfly to land there and wow! you had your camera ready! Thats fantastic!

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  6. Every year Krohn Conservatory has a butterfly exhibit in one of the garden rooms. They get butterflies from all over the world. I did not know any of these people. But there is a lot of "bonding" going on among the butterfly observers. I had my camera at the ready. (There is another blog post about this here: http://splendidlittlestars.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring.html --third photo.) I can't tell you exactly why this particular butterfly landed--sometimes they smell sweetness; other times they are attracted to color. At other butterfly exhibits I have been to, fruit and/or sugar water is put out for them. At one place they let you dip your fingers into it.

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  7. Wow! What magnificent color!
    Yet another great photo :)

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  8. What a gorgeous butterfly! They are so delicate and pretty!

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  9. Butterflies are so beautiful, their beauty appeals to all ages and brings people together. All this captured in one photo, excellent.

    Have a wonderful day.

    Judy

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  10. Shazaaaaaaam!! that's an amazing photo - I'm smiling and soon I will be sleeping and dreaming of butterflies...

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  11. That is an beautiful and very moving photo - I love both the butterfly and the hands from different generations. Very well done, Margaret!

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  12. Beautiful; both photo and poem.

    Shirl x

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