this place is trouble waiting

the light hangs so weakly on to the quiet

drag myself in a long line

in a long line

in a lonely line

and i jealously want the ocean's deep nerve

i am a red flame hanging low to be close to it

hanging low to be close to you

from Songs: Ohia's "The Ocean's Nerves", lyrics Jason Molina

Always a great moment when the hummingbirds get close enough to hear the magical flutter of their little wings. This male Broad-billed Hummingbird provided such a moment.

Comma butterfly on Verbena with a rudbeckia bokeh. Taken in St Jamess`s Park.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Hope you all have a glorious mid week!

Thank you for your support and visit, it is always appreciated!

Swallowtail

Hope you all have a wonderful mid week HWW!

Thank you for your visit and support!

Marking the official end of summer today with a monarch photo from Tower Hill Botanic garden, where I went last weekend. End of summer is always going to be a little bit sad. But autumn in New England is pretty special!

Have a great day everyone!

Nervous Northern Pearly-Eye butterfly ready to launch.

This lady sprang up all alone next to the fence on our patio - they can be quite invasive but this one made a statement that my wife pointed me to. Pretty little gem with eyelashes, all on her own and first one up. The 20mm gravel she grew through made for nice bokeh.

Alpine Violet -,Labradorica Purpurea. Purple Viola

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“It was weather for dreams; for little fluttering quests of the heart.”

― Knut Hamsun, Dreamers

♫ TUNE ♫

The graceful fluttering of a male western tanager.

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I was out back taking pics of the pretty Lantana flowers when this guy came by. :-) He's a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth. He only stayed a few minutes (less than 3 min) but I still vividly remember him. What a beauty.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

-- Carl Sagan

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Western White Butterfly (I think?), on the Snow Lake Trail, Washington

I saw quite a few of these lovely butterflies flitting around on the flowers below a talus slope as I was hiking down from Snow Lake. Fortunately they seemed content to ignore me while I got my camera out and tried to get in a good spot to take a photo. There was also a smaller bright orange one but it did not seem to want to be photographed as it moved every time I pointed the camera in its direction!

And I am not at all a butterfly expert, so please feel free to correct me if I have misidentified the species!

Rhyothemis variegata, known as the Common Picture Wing or Variegated Flutterer, is a species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, found in South Asia. They appear to have weak flight and can easily be mistaken for butterflies.

Many thanks to all those who view, comment and or fave my photos....It is greatly appreciated ......Chandana

There's no star too far, and no dream too grand. So shake the fairy dust and make a wish, the magic's in your hands!

ok...so there is this new flickr, unfortunately it has totally screwed up the way I keep in contact with people and how I comment on your photos, it has added much more time and I am afraid I will be miss seeing so much. And that isn't even going into DOUBLING the price for less services ... Hopefully our community will not be lost and flickr will listen.

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow;

I shall sing when night's decay

Ushers in a drearier day."

- Emily Brontë, "Fall, Leaves, Fall"

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Puffin flexing it's wing on the Farne Islands.

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Hi all! Today i'm wearing Ersch's "Chiasa" dress which is out at Sakura Matsuri! I'm also wearing Rosebun's "Under eye glitter" which can be found at the skin fair! LMs below happy shopping!

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Migrant Hawker dragonfly seen on the River Waveney, Suffolk.

My thanks to Victoria and Peter for the tutoring and support with my first bird photography outing. Your help was invaluable!!

We'll talk of sunshine and of song

And summer days when we were young

Sweet childish days that were as long

As twenty days are now

To a butterfly.....William Wordsworth

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What can be the reason behind flower favourites? (They fit your photographic style? Childhood memories? Fragrance? Perfect material in which to project your self?) These remain a favourite for me, Spring or Fall.

“A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.”

― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

♥

Well it is Grand National day

Flying with the Birds

Jeri, the Tropical Paradise!

How can you not feel good in a place like this?

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Shades of colour, life's a flutter

Life's a flutter, life's a flutter

Flutter of shapes changing frames

Life's a flutter, life's a flutter

No more darkness in my belly

Life's a flutter, life's a flutter

No more darkness, feeling hazy

Getting better .... life's a flutter

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Bronzed beech leaves flutter in the morning mist and flutter they most certainly did as this was the only frame from a burst where the majority had no blur! Taken in Barnes's Grove, Buckinghamshire.