Resting Soul. Acraea violae, Tawny Coster, on Garden Spurge, Euphorbia hirta, Mangsit Rocks, Lombok, Indonesia
Everything these days reminds me of a sadly Expected Loss that great distance allows me to mourn only half-way around the world.
Throughout history from the Ancient Greeks down to our own times, human souls have been seen emblematically as Butterflies. And it was appropriate this morning that my eyes in Nature's Paradise focused on this pretty Acraea violae, Tawny Coster, resting on Garden Spurge, Euphorbia hirta. A beautiful creature, indeed, and ever so fascinating is its set of yellow, feathery labial palps. It helps in determining whether a given substance is a food stuff or not. And Euphorbia, of course, was named for a famous doctor of Antiquity. He, too, was unable to stave of the Inevitable...
Resting Soul. Acraea violae, Tawny Coster, on Garden Spurge, Euphorbia hirta, Mangsit Rocks, Lombok, Indonesia
Everything these days reminds me of a sadly Expected Loss that great distance allows me to mourn only half-way around the world.
Throughout history from the Ancient Greeks down to our own times, human souls have been seen emblematically as Butterflies. And it was appropriate this morning that my eyes in Nature's Paradise focused on this pretty Acraea violae, Tawny Coster, resting on Garden Spurge, Euphorbia hirta. A beautiful creature, indeed, and ever so fascinating is its set of yellow, feathery labial palps. It helps in determining whether a given substance is a food stuff or not. And Euphorbia, of course, was named for a famous doctor of Antiquity. He, too, was unable to stave of the Inevitable...