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Dry spring and summer
a good year for butterflies
uplifting beauty
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by Scooj
Red Admiral
Tag: butterfly
Brimstone
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Sulphur yellow wings
vibrant in the midday sun
I eat lemon cake
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by Scooj
Haiku 1
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A butterfly comes
we all gaze on in wonder
iridescent wings.
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by Scooj
- This was the first ever haiku I wrote. It was in honour of my mother on her 80th birthday 10 years ago. I had flu at the time and that period coincided with the birth of Natural Adventures. I used the haiku to open my speech at her party last night, so I thought I would share it again here today.
Contentment
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Lazy summer’s day
warmth reflected from the shrubs
peacock butterfly
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by Scooj
Dance of the faeries
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A bright shaft of light
countless butterflies delight
and then they are gone
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by Scooj
- On observing one of the most beautiful natural sights I have ever seen. More than twenty Speckled Wood butterflies were chasing one another in long chains in a warm sunny spot in the woodland. As their wingtips brushed past the nettles plumes of pollen wafted into the air, like smoke. The display lasted only a few minutes until a cloud passed by, and the butterflies simply melted away into the woods. A moment that will live with me for the rest of my days. Magical.
Comma
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Disproportionate
joy of spotting butterflies
a rare sight these days
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by Scooj
Perched
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Drunken woken dance
from here to there in sunlight
then settled in shade
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by Scooj
5578. M32 Cycle path (230)
A normal week wouldn’t be a normal week without posting something by Bean, and so here is this week’s offering. This one is something a little different from Bean, and he certainly gets tons of credit for constantly dreaming up new characters, no two pieces being alike.
It is high time this wall was refreshed, and Bean has done it in style with this weird butterfly graffiti writer wearing a basketball shirt (naturally!?) and spraying pink dollops on either side of the piece. Creative and imaginative, I still think that his work would really benefit from a little bit of prep work with a buffed wall to help his pieces stand out even more.
Silver-washed fritillary
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Momentarily
incarcerated before
a tender release
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by Scooj
Red admiral
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Obliging presence
a taste of summers recalled
when rare was common
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by Scooj
Natural adventures 