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Western Tiger Swallowtail   Leave a comment

Western Tiger Swallowtail — Image by kenne

To each of man’s ages

the Lord gives its own anxieties

— Paulo Coelho

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly Mixed Art   Leave a comment

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Mixed Art by kenne

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied,
then forget it, now.
Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it.
Focus only on the moments
when you achieved what you desired,
and that strength will help you
to get what you want.

— Paulo Coelho

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

Two-tailed Swallowtail Vector   Leave a comment

Two-tailed Swallowtail On Thistle On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne 

Magnitude in space

Whose directed line segment

Is a space vector.

— kenne

 

Two-tailed Swallowtail   2 comments

Two-tailed Swallowtail — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Butterfly

Flutterby,
Butterfly,
Floating flower
in the sky.
Kiss me with your
Petal wings—
Whisper secrets,
Tell of spring.

 

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly   Leave a comment

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Image by kenne

“There was a young man who said though,

it seems that I know that I know,

but what I would like to see is the I

that knows me when I

know that I know

that I know.”

— Alan W. Watts

Spread Your Wings   1 comment

Spread Your Wings (Two-tailed Swallowtail) — image by kenne

resting on a leaf

she spreads her beautiful wings

getting attention

— kenne

 

Butterfly Art   Leave a comment

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne

 “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Arizona’s State Butterfly   Leave a comment

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.”

 

Butterfly Art — No Words Friday   3 comments

Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Two-Tailed Swallowtail   1 comment

Southern California September 2012Two-Tailed Swallowtail (May 2012) — Image by kenne

A favorite image from eight years ago.

— kenne

 

Changing Existing Reality   Leave a comment

Common Swallowtail-72Two-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

Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly   Leave a comment

Two-tailed Swallowtail-72Two-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.

From Time Past and Time Future   1 comment

SCVN Nature Walk 08-08-12Two-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

Making It To The Next Phase Of Life   3 comments

Two Tail Swallowtail IMG_0772 blogA 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!!

— kenne

Two Tailed Swallowtail IMG_0774 blogImages by kenne

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