Viceroy Butterfly on Buttonbush — Images by kenne
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Viceroy Butterfly on Buttonbush 2 comments
Painted Lady Butterfly Computer Painting 1 comment
Painted Lady Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
I love photographing flowers,
except when it’s windy.
Photographing butterflies
can be frustrating —
they keep moving whether
or not, the wind is blowing.
Once I have the photograph
I can say things painting
in colors and layers
I can’t say with words.
— kenne
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“You Land Lightly” — Computer Art by kenne
You land lightly
as a butterfly
upon a thistle
gently bathed
in nature’s radiance
coloring the landscape
which I capture
curving the contrast
against darkness.
— kenne
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Phyleus Skipper Butterfly On Lantana 1 comment
Skipper Butterfly — Images kenne
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Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly — Computer Art by kenne
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly — Image by kenne
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Butterfly Starburst 1 comment
Butterfly Starburst — Image by kenne
Caught in a whirlwind
Just a shadow of myself,
Winds will bring me home.
— kenne
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Butterfly Art — Image by kenne
Wait just a minute
Just a minute of my time
I will give to you.
— kenne
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Great Purple Hairstreak — Mission Accomplished 1 comment
After a morning run
on a chilly desert morning,
I walked out on the patio
with a cup of black coffee.
Noticing a
Great Purple Hairstreak
on the patio floor, motionless
from the forties temperature,
And wanting to help her
on her morning flight,
I placed her in the sun
on the patio wall
Where she fail on her side
a couple of times
before finally steadying
herself in the sunlight.
Taking longer
than expected
for her to take flight,
I went inside for more coffee.
Returning to the patio,
the countdown was completed,
I had missed her liftoff —
Mission accomplished.
— kenne
Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Art 2 comments
Two-tailed Swallowtail — Image by kenne
Two-tailed swallowtail
Still trying to get its wings
Lands on dirt runway.
— kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Southern Dogface Butterfly 3 comments
Spotted several of these Southern Dogface butterflies yesterday (February 5, 2015) on our patio. — Images by kenne
A Butterfly Lights Beside Us
A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam…
and for a brief moment it’s glory
and beauty belong to our world…
but then it flies on again, and although
we wish it could have stayed,
we are so thankful to have seen it at all.
Author Unknown
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Capturing The Moment — Painted Lady On A Rock 3 comments
Painted Lady Butterfly On A Rock — Image by kenne
This time of year I spend more time hiking on Mt. Lemmon that I do doing nature walking in Sabino Canyon. The exception was yesterday’s SCVN Lizard Walk. During the walk, which I will be posting on later, we saw a few butterflies. Currently, there are naturalists doing butterfly counts. I haven’t seen a report on the numbers, but from my observation trying to photograph them, the numbers are low.
The above image of a painted lady is one of the few butterflies I saw, at least that stopped for a moment. Maybe I would have seem more if I had been looking for butterflies rather than lizards.
kenne
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Two-tailed Swallowtail — Images by kenne
Double on the rocks,
Is this two-tailed swallowtail
Looking for its host?
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — American Snout Butterfly 4 comments
American Snout Butterfly — Image by kenne
Why show my top-side
When my dull bottom-side blends
So well with this branch.
— kenne
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein
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A Little Ragged Around The Edges — Angle Wings 4 comments
“A Little Ragged Around The Edges” Mourning Cloak Butterfly — Image by kenne
One of the host plants for the mourning cloak is the desert willow, where this butterfly has overwintered in the Sabino Canyon dam area, perching in sunny openings waiting for receptive female. Looks like winter has been rough on this male mourning Cloak, however the wing edges of this mourning cloak butterfly is an indication that he belongs to a subset called the “angle wings,” making them look like “angel wings.”
Angel Wings
My wings are not
ragged around
the edges,
what you see
are angel wings —
looks are deceiving.
— kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Not Just Another Painted Lady 4 comments
Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui) — Image by kenne
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