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Silver-spotted Skipper   1 comment

Silver-spotted Skipper, a Little Rough Around the Edges — Image by kenne

To look at this skipper
is to confront the aesthetic of use.

The roughness at the margins suggests a history
we cannot access directly, only infer.

Unlike the pristine specimen, which invites admiration,
this one demands interpretation.

It asks:
what does it mean for a living form
to bear the marks of its own survival?

Posted May 2, 2026 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Photography, Tucson Arizona

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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

Posted July 3, 2024 by kenneturner in Butterflies, Information, Mt. Lemmon, Photography, Tucson Arizona

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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

Posted December 23, 2023 by kenneturner in Butterflies, Capturing the Moment, Information, Nature, Photography, Plants, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

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Silver-spotted Skipper   Leave a comment

Silver-spotted Skipper — Image by kenne

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― from The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde

Posted June 6, 2021 by kenneturner in Butterflies, Information, Nature, Photography, Quote, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

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