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This is a female Gorgon Copper (Lycaena gorgon) butterfly perched on her host plant - native Longstem Buckwheat aka Wand Buckwheat (Eriogonum elongatum) in the Polygonaceae plant family. I know it's a female because I saw her ovipositing on another plant a few moments before. I also got a photo of the male butterfly today visiting flowers of Golden Yarrow, but I like this one better. Unfortunately, neither photo shows the pretty upper wings - see this photo for the upper wings of male and female together. (East Camino Cielo, Santa Ynez Mountains, 11 June 2018)
The winds finally died down today, leaving us with a gorgeous day. I saw hundreds of Variable Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) butterflies today, as well as an unusual Callippe Fritillary (Speyeria callippe) and the first California Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thetis) of the year. No photos yet, but a quest begins!
She was the host of a workshop, around 60 years old, but still wearing beautiful high heels. Dangling the whole time it was hard to concentrate :D
First day in white/ nude pumps, second day black shoes.
They had a good selection of literature in the entrance hall so Víctor was entertained while I enjoyed sketching.
16/12/2012
noodlers ink + watercolour
on smooth sketching paper (24 x 32 cm)
All Saints church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
Detail from Our Lord Enthroned, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1866
From MY CHRISTMAS SET.
All Saints church was built for the Church of England in 1864 to the designs of the great George Bodley, perhaps the most consistently brilliant of all 19th century English church architects. It is a high Tractarian temple designed in the Decorated style, and is generally considered to be Bodley's masterpiece. Interior decoration includes the work of William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Charles Kempe and Frederick Leach.
For many years Cambridge's highest Anglo-catholic church, the congregation gradually dwindled as fashions changed and the population of the parish moved out to the big new housing estates. In 1973, All Saints was declared redundant.
Attempts were made to find a new use, but after three years none had been found. So, in keeping with the redundant churches legislation of the time, All Saints was scheduled for demolition.
There was a national outcry, and at the eleventh hour the church was saved, and vested in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust in 1981. Considerable restoration was needed, and the building was mothballed until the early years of the 21st century, when a massive programme of repairs was carried out, although the church still remained locked.
In 2007, theological students from neighbouring Westcott House began to care for the building, opening it to the public most days and using it for daily liturgies. The response of the public, and a renewed interest genrally in 19th Century churches, galvanised the CCT to the extent that a lot of money was spent in turning it into a somewhat controversial visitors centre, with movement-activated spotlights and voice commentary as you wander around, the first of which makes photography now very difficult, and the second of which is merely very irritating.
Die Blätter fallen, fallen wie von weit,
als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten;
sie fallen mit verneinender Gebärde.
Und in den Nächten fällt die schwere Erde
aus allen Sternen in die Einsamkeit.
Wir alle fallen. Diese Hand da fällt.
Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen.
Und doch ist Einer, welcher dieses Fallen
unendlich sanft in seinen Händen hält.
(Rilke: Herbst)
I stopped by the nature park Slätmossen earlier today. As I was shooting this, another photographer walked by. He was out walking his dog. He asked me if I had been here earlier when the Autumn colors really peaked, and I told him, yes.
That is the name of the neighborhood hiding behind the Autumn colors here. An area with row-houses, built back in the 1950s. Today, considered “culturally valuable”, so maybe I should go in for a closer look.