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One of a handful of fresh second brood males on the wing on a hot, sunny morning at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve in the Chilterns (UK) (8684)
Canon 5D Mk IV with Canon 100 mm F2.8L Macro lens
Thirsty work, on a warm day at Pinfarthings on the edge of Minchinhampton Common in Gloucestershire (UK) (1869)
A late summer mating pair on a sunny bank on Rodborough Common in the Cotswolds near Stroud (UK) (2165)
Just a glimpse of blue! Spotted in damp, early morning conditions on the edge of Minchinhampton Common in the Cotswolds (UK) (6776)
A fresh female with a heavy 'blue dusting' on Swellshill Bank on the edge of Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire (UK) (2050)
A pristine late-summer female happy to open up at the merest glimmer of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy day at Prestbury Hill in Gloucestershire (UK) (6689).
A mating pair spotted on a sultry evening at Swellshill Bank near Stroud in the Cotswolds (UK) (6848)
At first glance, every bit a Brown Argus - the same aberrant female Adonis (ab. Krodeli) showing very dark upper wing markings and an absence of silvery-blue scales. Photographed on Swellshill Bank on the edge of Rodborough Common in the Cotswolds (UK) (1986)
The return of the Adonis - a second-brood male patrolling the slopes on a windy morning at Aston Rowant in the Chilterns (UK) (1133)
A pair of adonis blue butterflies mating on Minchinhampton Common in Gloucestershire. The female is the smaller brown one and the male the larger silvery coloured one. This was taken when I met up with Nigel Kiteley and his son Ben in the Stroud valleys last August
Amur adonis is an auspicious flower in Japan.
Flower that celebrates happiness and longevity.
福寿草は縁起の良い花で正月に園芸物が出回ります。
名前で分かる通り幸福と長寿を願う意味が込められています。
一方、西洋ではギリシャ神話からSorrowful remembrance 悲しき思い出でとなりますから面白いものです(^^; これは野生種で3月頃に咲きます。撮影：松本市四賀地区
Squeezed in a few hours at Rough Bank a couple of weeks ago and even though the wind was really blowing I was lucky enough to find this rather smart female Adonis Blue.
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He has outsoar'd the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain;
Nor, when the spirit's self has ceas'd to burn,
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
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He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!
Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air,
Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown
O'er the abandon'd Earth, now leave it bare
Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair!
Adonis by Shelley