Archive for the ‘Butterflies’ Category

Desert Orangetip Butterfly Painting   Leave a comment

Desert Orangetip Butterfly Painting by kenne

They are on the go

Moving blossom to blossom

Part of nature’s plan.

— kenne

Silver-spotted Skipper In The Catalina Mountains   3 comments

Silver-spotted Skipper On a Pinewoods Geranium — Image by kenne

This common North American

Butterfly prefers to spend

Its summers in the mountains —

Why not?

— kenne

Queen Butterfly On Buttonbush   7 comments

Queen Butterfly On Buttonbush — Image by kenne

“Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you’re a butterfly,

and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.”

— Elton John

American Snout Butterflies — Photo-artistry   Leave a comment

American Snout Butterflies — Photo-artistry by kenne

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes
It has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

— Maya Angelou

Nais Metalmark Butterfly On Mahogany Milkweed   1 comment

Nais Metalmark On Mahogany Milkweed — Image by kenne

Milkweed attracts many flying insects

However, it is thought of most with

Survival of the monarch butterfly

Since it’s the sole host plant

for monarch cataphilers.

— kenne

Echo Azure Butterflies   2 comments

Echo Azure Butterflies On a Moist Log — Image by kenne

Sleepy Orange Butterfly On Creosole   1 comment

Sleepy Orange Butterfly On Creosole — Image by kenne

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”

― Yuval Noah Harari

Butterflies   Leave a comment

Cloudless Giant Sulfur & Fiery Skipper Butterflies — Image by kenne

Love is like a butterfly:  It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. 

— Author Unknown

Abstract Art   Leave a comment

Abstract Art by kenne

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Abstract art will have been good for one thing:
to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

— Salvador Dali

 

Looking For Beauty On A Sad Day For Arizona   2 comments

Gaint Two-tailed Swallowtail — Photo-artistry by kenne

 

Despite the Arizona Supreme Court’s action taking us back to 1864 when only white men could vote,

and they could legally have sex with 10-year-old girls, there are many beautiful things in Arizona.

— kenne

Note: This first appeared on Instagram this morning.

This Painted Lady Is A Beauty   1 comment

This Painted Lady On Pineland Trailing Lantana Is A Beauty — Image by kenne

“Wildflowers can’t be controlled, neither can a butterfly.”

— kenne

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly   2 comments

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly — Image by kenne

Love is like a butterfly:  It goes where it pleases,

and it pleases wherever it goes. 

— Author Unknown

Painted Lady On Sneezeweed Blossom   1 comment

Painted Lady (August 2017) — Image by kenne

Sneezeweed so yellow
on mountains so blue.
Two cups, beginning
a blossom so yellow.
Pouring forth nectar
each a revengeful burst.

A painted lady lighting,
wine tasting of Chardonnay,
winging under the influence.
Leaving each flower behind,
next comes Tinker Bell,
next for the old gray Eeyore.

— kenne

On A Cloudy January Day, I Remember August   5 comments

Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne

On A Cloudy January Day, I Look Forward To The New Year As I Remember Back To August

Ragged Around The Edges   Leave a comment

Silver-spotted Skipper — Image by kenne

Transparent gold spots

Ragged around the edges

Late in the season.

— kenne