If you look closely, you’ll see the butterfly’s curled tongue just before it flits to a new flower …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0)
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends …" Robert Earl Keen
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0)
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends …" Robert Earl Keen
If you look closely, you’ll see the butterfly’s curled tongue just before it flits to a new flower …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
Wow you have such a good eye and steady hand!
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Mo … if you only knew how many butterfly videos have been trashed. I was due for a keeper …
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Magic all around us, thank you.
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Patty – I sat outside for the longest time today … just watching the butterflies, bees, birds, and bugs … magic indeed for those who have eyes to see (and time to look)
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Wow. Captured!
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Jude – it’s so rare to get this close to one of the butterflies … the mealy blue sage nectar must have been good to the point of distraction
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I love how it shrinks me down…
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and so..here it IS. the truly complete Amazement…the flower, the Being. To watch this
as many times as possible so that the true miracle of it sinks in…that tongue, that perfect
tool that is a tongue
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I was able to capture a single frame … such a perfect spiral
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Liz…thank you for sharing the glory of that magificent butterfly. Truly one of God’s masterpieces. Hearing the birds in the background and the gentle movement of the flower, harkens back such lovely memories of recent days in Texas. Love to you and Don.
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Thank you. We are fortunate (rich, in a very real sense) to be surrounded by such beauty every day
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Wonder…
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A gift from the universe …
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I saw it! Just read your words in Mo’s comments about how the Texas hills have won you over. And here we see why.
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Ah, well the Texas hills can’t hold a candle to Colorado’s mountains, but they’re just the right size for me
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The Rockies are something else. Every time we visit, I swoon. The sky here, too. Such a different scale!
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They inspire something between awe and total freak out in me …
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The amazing spiral!
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Nature’s own personal symbol (one of many)
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