Showing posts with label red admiral butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red admiral butterfly. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2019

Spring Alightment ...


“Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.”
                   ~ author unknown

A Red Admiral butterfly alights on a late spring afternoon in early June along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.

In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware and the D&L Trail.

The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Monday, September 16, 2013

The Dance


"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder ... I hope you dance!"
                                                                       ~ Lee Ann Womack

Red Admiral Butterfly dances in the summer light last month.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Butterflies Are Free ...

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
                                                    ~ Charles Dickens
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly and the Red Admiral Butterfly behind it almost seem as if their wings
are touching as they sip the nectar of buddleia flowers.

Monday, August 26, 2013

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.