Butterfly Plan. Angkor Wat and a Lesser Grass Blue, Zizina otis, Cambodia
Just about everyone's seen photos of the amazing temples and cities of and associated with Angkor Wat just north of Siem Reap, Cambodia. So it would be rather boring to post something of that sort. Anyway...
I was totally awed by my visit. Of course the stupendous architecture was overwhelming even if half-suspected so before coming here. Awesome and more; perhaps sublime. But totally other-worldly for Yours Truly. In a single word: Wow!
Here's a photo of the inner workings of this architecture, A horizontal beam, I think some sort of T-beam. Decorated with the eight-lotus motif of Buddhism, signiftying the Eightfold Path or Dharma Wheel. For a moment I thought the architecture might be of the so-called Butterfly Plan; that is to say of wings of a structure to stand at 45° of the main building. But that's not so. However, the many stairs leading to the various levels are indeed inclined at 45°; Believe you me, that's very steep.
My mind still taken by the blueprint of this Amazing Building, I went out onto the grass to contemplate a bit. And there they were, the dancing Blues, the Lycaenid Butterflies of Cambodia, whose specific was revealed to me by Rea (see below): Zizina otis, Lesser Grass Blue. So High Architecture and the Architecture of Nature joined in my mind.
PS Please excuse my tardiness in commenting etc. Internet leaves something to be desired here...
Butterfly Plan. Angkor Wat and a Lesser Grass Blue, Zizina otis, Cambodia
Just about everyone's seen photos of the amazing temples and cities of and associated with Angkor Wat just north of Siem Reap, Cambodia. So it would be rather boring to post something of that sort. Anyway...
I was totally awed by my visit. Of course the stupendous architecture was overwhelming even if half-suspected so before coming here. Awesome and more; perhaps sublime. But totally other-worldly for Yours Truly. In a single word: Wow!
Here's a photo of the inner workings of this architecture, A horizontal beam, I think some sort of T-beam. Decorated with the eight-lotus motif of Buddhism, signiftying the Eightfold Path or Dharma Wheel. For a moment I thought the architecture might be of the so-called Butterfly Plan; that is to say of wings of a structure to stand at 45° of the main building. But that's not so. However, the many stairs leading to the various levels are indeed inclined at 45°; Believe you me, that's very steep.
My mind still taken by the blueprint of this Amazing Building, I went out onto the grass to contemplate a bit. And there they were, the dancing Blues, the Lycaenid Butterflies of Cambodia, whose specific was revealed to me by Rea (see below): Zizina otis, Lesser Grass Blue. So High Architecture and the Architecture of Nature joined in my mind.
PS Please excuse my tardiness in commenting etc. Internet leaves something to be desired here...