First Butterfly! (#Haiku #Nature)

28 Saturday May 2022

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small butterfly
resting in the meadows
spring offers a welcome hand

Last Butterflies This Summer (#Nature #Poetry)

21 Tuesday Sep 2021

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Goodbye old friends,
to the last sights
of your colorful, playful wings
weaving thru the meadows;

I’ll will see you again
when you awake from your slumbers,
to the tender call of spring blossoms.

Phil Gennuso Arts – Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly

Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly ! (#Nature #SaturdayThoughts)

24 Saturday Jul 2021

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This photograph of a beautiful Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly has a great WordPress backstory which I want to just take a moment to tell. A fellow blogger who I have come to know over the last few months, Mark at Naturalist Weekly (a link below) has been writing incredibly intriguing and interesting posts about moths and butterflies in recent weeks. As a result on my near daily walks along the mighty, magnificent Hudson River by Cornwall Landing NY, I have been keeping a eye out for these magical creatures. Lo and behold, on Thursday, July 22, I spotted this beauty circling as butterflies do, right along the grass on the banks of the Hudson!

At first I could not believe it! I have never seen a butterfly like this in NY, much less by the Hudson River. Most of the butterflies are Monarch butterflies in my neck of the woods. This butterfly had stark black wings with white polka-dots lining the edges! And when it settled down with wings open it actually let me get up close for a shot with my primitive tablet camera, the only camera I have at the moment.

I know it may sound crazy to you but I have no doubt that something mystical is going on here, a connection between reading Mark’s posts and spotting this unique butterfly, right along the Hudson River, a butterfly type I have never seen before. And I have been walking outdoors almost every day just about for the last twenty years!

For those who might be interested I also am including a link to a nice article on this type of Swallowtail Butterflies.

Have a great weekend!

Check out Mark at Naturalist Weekly – Connecting to nature through poetry and prose.

Here is a link to a nice article on this type of butterfly:

Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly: Identification, Caterpillar, Facts, & Pictures (butterflyidentification.com)