Butterflies on my Zinnias

Zinnia is my all time favorite flower. All year round I have zinnias in my garden.

This was taken in my garden last year.

Zinnias fill my garden with colors and they also attract more butterflies to it.

This morning, I was amused to see another variety, or is it just a growth abnormality?

Another surprise that my Zinnias gave me was this new garden guest. She was quite energetic and couldn't stay still so I had to use another camera and set it to sports setting so I could frame her well.

Isn't she a beauty? Thanks to my beautiful Zinnias.

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. 

But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
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Winged Flower

This flower (Belamcanda Chinesis, also known as the Leopard Flowers) is a beauty in itself.

What more when another winged flower comes to it?

Both become one spectacular sight.

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

Beautiful and graceful, 

varied and enchanting,

small but approachable, 

butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  

And everyone deserves a little sunshine.  

~Jeffrey Glassberg

It lingered a while..long enough for me to take delight on this moment.

 I paused, closed my eyes, took a deep breath... and thanked God for a time of rest.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, 

and has time enough. 

~Rabindranath Tagore

 There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. 

~Richard Buckminster Fuller

 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, 

but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

  ~Maya Angelou

"You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, ...... 

and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 

and to clothe yourselves with the new self, 

created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness" 

(Ephesians 4:22-24, NRSV).


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