American Snout Butterfly In Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
With a snout like that
We think it is a long nose
But it’s a long mouth.
— kenne
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American Snout Butterfly Leave a comment
Butterfly On Boat 2 comments
Butterfly On Boat — HDR Image by kenne
Butterfly on boat
Going along for a ride
On a sunny day.
— kenne
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Southern Dogface — Image by kenne
Southern Dogface butterflies are so named for the yellow dog’s head marking surrounded by black on each
of their dorsal forewings. Their ventral wing surfaces are yellow with a small, black-ringed spot
on each forewing and either one or two small, brown to pink-ringed spots on each hindwing. The forewings
are point-tipped and can either be straight-edged to slightly hooked , as with this Southern Dogface.
— Source: The Firefly Forest
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Marine Blue Butterflies 2 comments
Marine Blue Butteries — Image by kenne
The world is not to be put in order,
the world is order. It is for us to put
ourselves in unison with this order.
— Henry Miller
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Little Blue Butterfly Leave a comment
Marine Blue Butterfly — HDR Image by kenne
Pretty butterfly
Taking a break on a leaf
So small and so blue.
— kenne
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Butterfly Art Leave a comment
Photo-Artistry by kenne
Mariposa
Butterflies are white and blue
In this field we wander through.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Death comes in a day or two.
All the things we ever knew
Will be ashes in that hour,
Mark the transient butterfly,
How he hangs upon the flower.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Suffer me to cherish you
Till the dawn is in the sky.
Whether I be false or true,
Death comes in a day or two.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Upon This Rock Leave a comment
Empress Leilia Butterfly — Image by kenne
Butterfly morning
The emperor family
Empress Leilia
— kenne
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Painted Lady Butterfly Leave a comment
Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne
All things flourish, and each returns to its source.
— Lao Tzu
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Arizona Sister Leave a comment
Arizona Sister — Image by kenne
Arizona girl
A large brown/black butterfly
Big sister to some.
— kenne
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Giant Western Swallowtail Leave a comment
Giant Western Swallowtail In Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
And that behind Orpheus’ laments shines
the glory of having seen, however fleetingly,
the unattainable face at the very instant it turned away . . .
— Michel Foucault
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Queen Butterfly On Palmleaf Mistflower — Image by kenne
Every young plant springing
into heavy air,
one’s self up, out
from the core
as if earth’s got
too hot
for anyone to tough
too much;
much as the much-sung lark
climbs higher,
outsinging where
branches spread and flare
like ravelled wire-
ends or one’s hair
in an electric charge might
upstand, lift, as some
wire prancer’s parasol
might parachute and drift
you gentle down to ground
once more.
— from Summer Sequence by W. D. Snodgrass
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Dorantes Longtail Butterfly Leave a comment
Lilac-banded Longtail or Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes) — Image by kenne (October 2, 2022)
This is the first time I’ve seen, and photographed Lilac-banded Longtail or Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes), a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from Argentina, north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to southern Texas and peninsular Florida.
Strays can be found as far north as northern California, southern Arizona, southern Missouri and southern Georgia. — Source: iNaturalist
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Morning Visitor 1 comment
Two-tailed Swallowtail On Meyer Lemmon Tree — Image by kenne
I don’t know why
but I’m pleased
swallowtails seem
to love our patio
Meyer lemon tree
making it easy for
me to set nearby
photographing these
beautiful butterflies.
— kenne
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Pipevine Swallowtail On Mt. Lemmon Leave a comment
Pipevine Swallowtail On Mt. Lemmon Trail — Image by kenne
The trailhead next to power transformers,
A path next to a chain-linked fence.
Converging rocky paths lined by ferns,
One with vistas of the valley below
The other, with a hill of pines singing, soon
Opening to a grassy meadow of wildflowers.
— kenne
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Empress Leilia Butterfly Painting Leave a comment
Empress Leilia Butterfly Painting — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Fall creeping through a dusty sky
Another wind blown gray shadow
The piercing thorns tear at wings
Yellows and oranges muscling loose
Only someday to tire of the journey
Knowing the winds inevitable gyre.
— kenne
