Papillon Dream

"Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time."
                                            ~ Deborah Chaskin

I wondered what a butterfly's dream would look like. This is the image I imagined  for this
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ...

Color My World

Butterflies Color The World ... With Hope ...

Beautiful Monarch Butterfly is resplendent in the summer sun last weekend.

Royal Splendor

"What a caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
                       ~ Richard Bach
The beautiful Monarch Butterfly alights this weekend.

Fluid Beauty

" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
                                                    ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Red Admiral Butterfly seemingly floats over the Buddleia flower this weekend.

Oh Papillon!

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. "One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
                                                              ~ Hans Christian Andersen
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly had all of this yesterday!

Sweet Anticipation

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly anticipates sipping the nectar today

Summer Of The Papillon

Whisper of Light

Soft Summer Morn

Alight In The Light

Papillon In White

A Swallowtail Song

Illumination

Peek-A-Boo Butterfly

Angel Of The Morning

On The Wings of Sunrise

In Sunshine and Shadow

Gossamer Shadow

Sunbathing, Butterfly?

Waiting For Butterflies

Like the swallows return to Capistrano, the butterflies will return to their garden in spring!