Sunday, September 02, 2007
Summer Azure
The summer azure butterfly (Celastrina neglecta) is to me the embodiment of fleeting, late summer days; delicate, and with its inner wings a clear blue as if a small bit of sky color had come to earth. It is easily recognized by its pale greyish outer wings with spotting and a faint, stitching submarginal line, with fringed wing edges, and its lovely, powder-blue inner wings with a prominent white edge.
The summer azure takes me back to summers and meadows of long ago; all gone except in my memory. But, while the grass is heavy with dew from the lengthening early fall night, the sun is coming up over the ridge... I am off to the woods to see what I can see on this beautiful September day.
// posted by IBOY @ 6:19 AM 
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I drove 700 miles on the West Texas highways over the weekend and didn't notice a single butterfly.
Maybe I drove too fast, or I didn't expect to see them
on such hot and dry fields.
Anyway, it was refreshing to come home to mystical, beautiful pictures of butterflies on your site!
thank you for taking time to post such wonderful pictures with others.
I had no idea I'd enjoy them so much.
You take good pictures.
Maybe I drove too fast, or I didn't expect to see them
on such hot and dry fields.
Anyway, it was refreshing to come home to mystical, beautiful pictures of butterflies on your site!
thank you for taking time to post such wonderful pictures with others.
I had no idea I'd enjoy them so much.
You take good pictures.
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: September 03, 2007
: September 03, 2007
Delighted... That is odd you didn't see anything. Every year is different though, for butterflies.
Don
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