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Another shot from my trip to Tennessee. We were driving a long and I spoted this chapel and jumped out to grab a shot. Almost end of oct and I still need to get a blog post in. I turn 40 in 8 days..yikes!
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Gray Cracker = Hamadryas februa
Butterflies use their antennae to sense the air for wind and scents. The antennae have clubbed-tips. The sensory receptors are concentrated in the tips and can detect odor's.
Taste receptors are located on the palps and on the feet. Adult butterflies consume only liquids, ingested through the proboscis as they sip water and feed on nectar from flower. The proboscis is elongated and tubular expands when needed to feed and curls up at rest.
Butterflies are brightly colored flying insects with four wings that vary in color and pattern according to species, the wings are covered with tiny overlapping rows of scales.
Butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species.
Butterflies are important as pollinators, although in general they do not carry as much pollen as bees. They are however capable of moving pollen over greater distances.
Butterflies are widely used as objects of art in jewelry, artwork, furnishings and photographic art. A famous illustration was in Alice in Wonderland, the caterpillar seated on a toadstool and is smoking a hookah.
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Butterfly Jungle @SDZSafariPark
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San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Escondido, CA
Another fun day finding frogs. I've never seen these in gray, with a nice pattern. This was one of two, the other had a very thin pattern.
This Gray Flycatcher was in Fairhaven Memorial Park, in Santa Ana (Orange County), CA, 27 September, 2016.
You Who sleep in my breast are not met with words, but in the emergence of life within life and of wisdom within wisdom. With You there is no longer any dialogue, any contest, any opposition. You are found in communion! Thou in me and I in Thee, Thou in them and they in me: dispossession within dispossession, dispassion with dispassion, emptiness within emptiness, freedom with freedom. I am alone. Thou art alone. The Father and I are One.
-Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence, pg. 488
One of the birds I had hoped to see again was the Grays Jays when I visited Manning Park. Mom and Dad were busy looking for food but the young mostly hung out at the picnic tables. At one point it carefully drank from an incredibly shallow puddle on the table and drank.
They are predominantly slate-gray, with a black cap on their head and a rusty-red patch under their tail, which is usually hidden unless the bird is in flight or displays it deliberately.