Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Butterfly Rainforest

The museum in our town has a really cool butterfly exhibit. I was able to take my aunt, and Rowan to it briefly last week. I got some really pretty pictures, if only I didn’t have a 4 year old tugging on my leg the whole time, there may have been less blur.

It had just rained, so all the flowers and plants were perfect for photographing.

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ~Rabindranath Tagore

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“The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.”
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” ~Jeffrey Glassberg

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“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.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Anderson

12 comments:

  1. Absolutely breathe taking photographs.
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  2. Wow! Those are some really great pictures!
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  3. Wonderful pictures and I loved reading the butterfly quotes too. I've always wanted to plant a butterfly and hummingbird garden.
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  4. These are gorgeous. I love butterflies. Their colors are so awesome.
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  5. Hmmm....you're not in G'ville, are you? I live outside of G'ville, and my kids and I LOVE the butterfly museum there. You have captured beautiful pictures and I love the rain drops.
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  6. Those pictures are STUNNING! The colours are so bright. Wow!
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  7. Stunning shots! What gear to you use?
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  8. Dear Anon, I have a Nikon D80, and a few different lenses. Check out the Amazon Recommendations I have in my sidebar, it has all the lenses and gear I use...only I couldn't find the d80 on there.
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  9. beautiful shots...and i love that amazon recommendation sidebar! I gotta get one on my blog!
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  10. WOW - these are some great shots - I love the ones of the flowers. I love to photograph flowers and then attempt to paint them.
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