The first butterfly of the year for me! These hardy butterflies will produce one brood in the late spring/summer and they will live until the next spring to try to reproduce, then die. Can you see the notch out of one wing, its a hard life for a butterfly.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5 comments:
Wow! I am amazed that you are seeing butterflies already. Not here yet. It is a shame how hard it is on those beautiful wings.
Hi Robin,
You will see them soon!
Hopefully I will see some over by my new place. The pic is beautiful!
Sad about the wings but such is life.
Oh FJ you have so many more butterflies in CA then we do. I envy you that.
Beautiful.
Poor butterflies.
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