My Butterfly Buddy

on Friday, March 15, 2013
I have been inspired by today's gorgeous weather and have put together this little documentation of a particularly nice day from last summer. The story goes something like this:
I was outside on our back porch when I happened to notice a huge butterfly near the tree by our deck. Having nothing better to do,* I grabbed a net and caught him. In the kitchen, I found a mason jar and some netting from a bag of oranges. This butterfly really was a rather lovely creature, with large colorful fans for wings and three pairs of gentle little stick legs. He did a great job posing and I really enjoyed the opportunity to play around with our new camera. Enjoy the photos! (P.S. You can click on a photo and it will enlarge it and you can scroll through them that way. I like them better when they're bigger.) 

*(oh, to have nothing better to do than catch butterflies..! no papers, no calculus...Anyone else ready for summer?!)
In the mason jar


one of my favorite pictures

posing
brilliantly colored





See the chip in his left wing? He left that as a present for me. It's especially beautiful to look at under the microscope.


I have a whole new definition of butterfly kisses.

  I'm a pirate.
Until another day, my little friend! :)

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