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Monarch

 

Over the years I’ve been hiking and doing photography, I’ve had a number of insects fly by or even land on me or my camera.  It’s difficult to get a shot of a dragonfly that’s landed on the top of your lens or a butterfly that won’t hold still.  But every so often, they’ll play nice and I can get a decent image.

 

On a recent hike I waited for several minutes for a Monarch to finish wandering and land somewhere long enough for me to get a picture.  It chose a pine bough above me so I wasn’t able to get a clear shot of it’s entire wingspan, but the angle I had to work with made for a pretty image in the end so I wasn’t disappointed.

 

Monarch Butterfly

 

 

Until next time…

 

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~A.M.

Butterfly

Unfortunately, I haven’t been on any adventures recently even though I have a list of trails I’ve yet to hike.  The weather here hasn’t been all that agreeable lately.  It’s either pouring rain or so unbearably hot that hiking is the last thing I want to do.

But, I won’t leave folks hanging this week, so here’s a picture I took last month of a butterfly that I helped out of the road.  I think a bird might have tried to eat it.  One of its wings was injured.  But, I got it out of the road and into the safety of some bushes.

Butterfly 2

Until next time…

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~A.M.