Spread Your Wings (Two-tailed Swallowtail) — image by kenne
resting on a leaf
she spreads her beautiful wings
getting attention
— kenne
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Two-tailed Swallowtail is Arizona’s State Butterfly — Image by kenne
“The adult butterfly (also commonly called two-tailed tiger swallowtail) has yellow
to orangish-yellow wings edged thickly with black. Each wing has 4 almost parallel stripes
(the innermost stripe is the longest, while the outermost two may simply be bars).
The hindmost part of each wing has a curved row of blue patches and below the blue
are several bars or spots of orange. Two tails extend from the rear of the hind wing,
with the innermost tail considerably shorter.”
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail (May 2012) — Image by kenne
A favorite image from eight years ago.
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly On A Mexican Bird of Paradise — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something,
build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Image by kenne
Beauty and size make the two-tailed swallowtail butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) an impressive specimen with a nearly five-inch wingspan and a body that approaches two inches in length. So impressive that is was designated the Arizona state butterfly in 2001.
Near the top of the yellow wings are 4 markings of almost parallel black lines. The posterior portion of the wings holds blue dots surrounded by black markings that curve to form a “w” shape when the wings are open. Below these dots are more rectangular shaped orange bars emblazoned into the dark outline of the wing.
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.”
— from Burnt Norton by T.S. Eliot
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A student holds a Two-tailed Swallowtail just after coming out of its cocoon.
Just outside the Sabino Canyon Visitors Center, A Junior Naturalist (7th grader) showed a Two-tailed Swallowtail with wings still curved, just having emerged from her cocoon. This image represents the last stage of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly, which began with a very hungry caterpillar hatching from an egg. The caterpillar will spend this phase of its life stuffing itself with leaves, growing plumper and longer through a series of molts in which it sheds its skin. Then, one day the caterpillar stops eating, suspends itself upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon where the caterpillar digests itself, eventually emerging as a butterfly. Cool!!
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Happiness is a butterfly,
which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which,
if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly Entering a World of Color — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Color possesses me.
I don’t have to pursue it.
It will possess me always, I know it.
That is the meaning of this happy hour:
Color and I are one.
I am a painter.
— Paul Klee
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Butterfly (Two-tailed Butterfly) and Flower (Mexican Bird of Paradise) Photo-Artistry by kenne
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.
Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course.
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord,
and if the meaning of things were simply in ends,
composers would write nothing but finales.
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Photo-Artistry by kenne
I love you, I love you, I love you,
with the armchair and the book of death,
down the melancholy highway
in the iris’s darkened garret,
in our bed that was once the moon’s bed,
and in that dance, the turtle dreamed of.
— Federico García Lorca
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Digital Painting by kenne
I am born to die
Things I know but can’t explain
Not being convinced.
— kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 
“The whole content of my being shrieks
in contradiction against itself . . .
Existence is surely a debate.”
— Kierkegaard
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