This is a Eyed Brown butterfly. There is more color than you may initally see. The hues of browns in the edges are really beautiful, and the 'eyes' make for a beautiful butterfly.
~ Rick
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Pardon my excitement, but I am so pumped. We have seen a couple butterflies on the warmer days, but this time I was able to capture a photograph. It’s a Cabbage White Butterfly. You know the weather is heading in the right direction when you see butterflies. 🦋🦋
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Nature is not always large and obvious. The photos today capture this lesson from Mother Nature.
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining on us and you could feel the energy of nature all around us. As we hiked, we saw this beautiful Monarch Butterfly doing her thing. We are seeing a lot of them right now as the migration is approaching.
I shot the first photo. Of course, when I took the photo, I did not see everything in the frame. I did see the bee in the foreground, but I didn’t see the second bee, or the fly.
Nature is wonderful .. and so alive. I was focused on the butterfly, but there is so much life in this photo.
Not far from this spot, I paused to stop and look around. I could not see all of the life in my view: I could see the goldenrod, a few butterflies, but the beauty in nature is the diversity of life. plants, insects, mammals is so large. It is just just amazing in its size and scope.
Oh, you may not like flies when they come around, but how cool is this fly. Wow.
The message: Don’t miss the small stuff. Stop and take it all in. Nature .. life is happening all around you. Take it all it.
~ Rick
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I have shot more photos of Widow Skimmers and other ‘bugs’ this year than any summer in the past. I am enjoying the amazing details in these crazy looking creatures. Perhaps I am becoming a bug photographer. 🤯
This photo has so many different textures, colors and the details are amazing. I took a second photo of the same Skimmer, just in a different spot and lush greens in the background.
The last photo is another Widow Skimmer, but this one is a female (the top two are males). This photo lacks the textures but has great details of the skimmer.
I often think that when I upload these photos to the web I am loosing some image quality. I need to dig into this and understand it better. I am certain these photos look better on my ipad before I upload them. If you want a copy, email or DM me and I will email you a full resolution image. They are really cool.
~ Rick
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This week we saw a larger number of butterflies. This is a Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. They grow to be very large, and are simply beautiful. The adult can grow to be 2.5 to up to 3.5 inches across. I have read reports of up to 5 inches. Sometimes they look like a small bird flying across the prairie.
~ Rick
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