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Overwintering
butterflies emerge from sheds
wishing they had not
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by Scooj
Tag: butterfly
3152. Purdown HAA Battery (9)
An artist who hasn’t featured very much on Natural Adventures is CD.TC, but I am about to put that right over the next week or two.I don’t think he paints too much, but recently there has been a little rash of work, often alongside DazCat and Kool Hand.
This is a nice piece up at Purdown of a colourful character catching a little butterfly in a tin labelled CD.TC. I really don’t know where these artists get their ideas from, but maybe Purdown with its urban wildlife offers some inspiration. This is a tidy and beautifully sprayed piece from this rather under-represented artist.
Overwintered
Three dazzling peacocks
a spectacular display
spring’s warmth awakens
by Scooj
Dog walk benefits
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Ruben and I see
an orange-tip butterfly
the first of the year.
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by Scooj
Seasons are changing
1879. Upfest 2018 (98)
This gateway is a particular favourite of mine and has played host to some lovely pieces by 3rdeye and Aspire in previous Upfests. This year it was the turn of Dr Love, an artist from Tbilisi in Georgia.
The piece is a large stencil, and you can see just how tricky it is to put together a stencil of this size from the picture above. Looking at this stencil, I can’t quite work out the layering, but that is why I write about these things rather than try to do them myself.
Dr Love likes to spread love with his work and I think with this piece you can sense the tenderness of a skeleton holding a butterfly on his finger and the message is conveyed loud and clear with the large word LOVE across the middle of the piece. Sadly the work only lasted a few months before it was tagged, and I believe that a Muckrock piece is there now, but I’ve not managed to get down to see it yet.
Smells of Summer
In these dismal days
of central heating, my thoughts
turn to the summer.
by Scooj
Butterflies
In a year of whites
a spot of late summer sun
brings out the colours.
by Scooj
On observing that it has been a terrible year for butterflies in the UK except for the white species which appear to have thrived in the dry conditions. This afternoon however I have spotted a couple of colourful butterflies, a speckled wood and one other.
Visit
Tiniest blue flag
enough to draw attention
from a passer-by.
by Scooj
Fledgling fodder
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A convulsing mass
of tiny caterpillars;
great peril awaits.
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by Scooj
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