Butterflies in May

There were still some flowers blooming and the garden was a busy place with tiny butterflies I could not get a picture of.
These two were resting and let me take their picture.



If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~
Author unknown

Red Admiral

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

Hackberry Emperor

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin

Hackberry Emperor underside of wings

Spring roses

Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions - Keith Wynn

How strange that Nature does not knock and yet does not intrude - Emily Dickinson

I Take issue with Emily; she did not live in Texas with the wild, wild rose vines that swallow up a wild grape grove in one year!!

Warm spring morning.

These wild rose blossoms are only about 2" in full bloom.
They are amazingly photogenic.

2018 August moon in Wyoming

“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” 
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

late at night standing on the deck of my sister's house

The moon was not as close to the ground as my pictures of the moon in Texas.  

Butterfly rescue

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Painted Lady

Painted Lady Underside

One morning hubby and I were in the living room when I spotted a butterfly on the ceiling.
It was too high to rescue without hurting the wings.
So we waited and waited and got distracted by TV.
Needless to say, I looked up and the butterfly was gone.

The poor thing finally saw the sky (I think) and flew over to the window.  It managed to get under the venetian blind.
It walked up and down the window and finally rested.

It was on the inside of the window so could not take screen off and then raise the windows.  I thought it would beat itself silly if I did.

I grabbed a dish towel and carefully raised the blind and dropped towel over it and very lightly, so as to not damage the wings, and set it free in the back yard.

What a blessing to free this beautiful creature!

MURAL ALBUM

 watching  for murals has become a new past time.  It is easier when someone else is driving.

Wall of cafe in Cleburne, Tx

Remember to click photo to see larger

Child care center Burleson, Tx

Adjacent to parking lot of child care

Boxcar funky place near restaurants, Old Town Burleson, Tx

John Wayne across from Babe's, Old Town Burleson, Tx

Dentist offices on Renfro Street, Burleson Tx

On wall of old City Market, Burleson, Tx

Something I have noticed for years is that walls with murals are not (tagged) defaced with graffiti.

May moon

May 9, 2019 ... The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg From out yon nimbus cloud, the 

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau

No tripod, only resting elbows on a tote; taking fast shots and laughing out loud at what the camera captured!

 How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon
From the slow opening curtains of the clouds
Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
~George Croly, Diana

The camera has never captured the blue morning sky before

I am mad with the sight of stars, and frenzied with the beauty of the silver, wanton moon. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "Prayers of a Worldling: V," A Soul's Faring, 1921

Have  no idea what I had chosen on the camera, just enjoyed the outcome.  MAGIC

Under every full moon, there’s light that brings joy to us during night. ~@Lauren Shea, @LaurenSheaa

MAGIC -- THANK YOU GOD!

Cone flower seeds in winter

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
~A. Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," Tablets, 1868

Even at the end of their days, the Cone flower is  photogenic

Before pulling out "finished" flowers, think of letting these seeds blowing around in the garden (if it is not a marshaled, neat, orderly one). The joy of watching  for the new seedlings can make a dreary late winter garden something to take pleasure in.