Blooms Butterflies Birds
Original author of the quote "Maybe the reason I love animals so much, is because the only time they have broken my heart is when theirs has stopped beating" is not definitively known.
Winter photography opportunities ambling, mulling over what's been happening, only time I find concentrating on something else gives a reprieve from life itself. Seasonal change is the author through natures blooms, butterflies and birds.
Currently a chilly breeze blows through with gentle rain, one day off from normal dry winter bright sunshine, plants get a gentle wash from dust and dander floating about. I fed the birds who arrived as usual the weavers and sparrows.
Hidden under Croton leaf with veins in the sunlight during the week waiting and watching under dappled beautiful lighting thrown across it's wings looking transparent in spots. Butterflies use leaves when windy conditions arrive or it rains.
Approaching this plant dance of butterflies happens with many appears as you walk past, as if we disturbing them.
Not all butterflies arrive on colourful wings which makes me think this is the Dead-leaf Commodore (Precis tugela) since they would not be so noticeable if they did not move when we pass by.
Time made available daily to walk outdoors camera in hand a strong draw card ritual undertaken at different times, a must for well being.
Amazed at the variety and number of butterflies that come and go during our cooler months along our coast, ever changing they take your breath away each time.
Brown Pansy flower, no it's the butterfly aka Brown Pansy enjoying time on the soil perhaps nutrients in the soil it enjoys a sight I have noted over the years with this butterfly.
I haven't seen the tell tale signs of the Hawk Moth caterpillars on my Arum Lily eating leaves, perhaps not this year. I never cut flowers in the garden for vase in the home, leave them for night pollinating moths or bats, perhaps some small birds I am not yet aware of.
Jade (Crassula ovata) stunning in beauty, waxy two tone leaves, tiny flowers attracting many insects right now.
Stralitzia aka Bird of Paradiseflowering under the mid-winter brings another enticing flower for sunbirds, bees and butterflies to enjoy with Golden Shower hanging between the trees or through tall standing cactus along a wall for protection.
Pentas Graffiti Pink is a variety of Pentas lanceolata, in pink, star-shaped flowers, found in KZN, South Africa although not native to the country thrives feeding Sunbirds attracting butterflies and other insects, a pleasure to have around outdoors.
Every day offers the biggest art steal in ones soul, colourful diversity in warmth, hope in a future where responsible people will guide All born, living, tasting, feeling the heart beat as an African. Glimmer of hope always appears with light! Season's change, we learning to become one community.
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Thought for Today: "It's better to ask than to steal." - African Proverb
