Two-Tailed Swallowtail — Photo-Artistry by kenne
A perfect landing
This beauty can do no wrong
Two-tailed swallowtail.
— 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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Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The background is dark
Creating more eye contrast
Perspective is changed.
— kenne
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“Come Fly With Me” — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
— The Tempest
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Whimsical Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
There’s a naked butterfly
With black and yellow wings
On a yellow body attracted to
Hidden wonders when rain
Washes away desert dust
Letting the world change —
I’m happy to watch the wind.
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Image by kenne
Mt. Lemmon in August
At least once or twice a week
We escape the desert heat
Driving the twisting highway
Where saguaros and dried
Desert plants cover the landscape.
Monsoon rains have soaked
The mountains not making it
To the lower elevations where
False expectations continue
To drive our conversations.
With each mountain road turn
The vegetation changes, first
The oak-grassland followed by
The pine-oak woodlands, chaparral
And the pine forest biomes.
A world apart from the desert below
Enjoying the cool mountain air
Clouds begin moving almost
Without motion soon the wind
Blows through the tall ponderosas.
Yet how gentle it seems the hikers
Knowing everything was just
A moment unable to conceive
The skyline on the ridge broken
By a darkening sky about to rupture.
— kenne
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly On a Thistle Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The thistle attracts
Moving in the maintain breeze
Dancing and tempting.
— kenne
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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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Making It To The Next Phase Of Life 3 comments
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!!
— kenne
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