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"Question Mark" is a new sculpture created by Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar and funded through a gift from the Madison Public Library Foundation. Photo by library staff.
From the top, " the question mark," is a pretty, rather small butterfly. It's signature field mark -- something that looks like a question mark -- is on the underside of the wing. From the underside, however, this butterfly is quite drab.
Does anybody know what this might be? It looks as if it hasn't been used in decades. It's built into a wall of the George Eastman House. Not far away is a modern two-outlet electrical plug. The little door closes quite securely.
(Hmmmm! That's odd. When I try and put "??" in the tag area nothing shows up!)
I was very surprised when the butterfly crawled onto my hand. What was more surprising was how long it was content to visit with me.
Winter form, taken back in October. I may be (unbelievably) slack at uploading, but I remember this day well because I'd found dissapointingly few insects, let alone anything pretty, and just as I was thinking I may as well go home, this absolutely perfect butterfly landed on a leaf only a short distance away from me. I thought he'd fly away as I tried to sneak up on him--it had been that kind of day--but I think he must have wanted to be on Flickr because he held so still that had I not known he was alive, I'd have mistaken him for a particularly fresh museum specimen. I took several shots and when I was satisfied that I'd got the best he was willing to give, I thanked him for his co-operation, and he flew away. Lovely little creature.
"Year of the Butterfly". Okay the last several years have been somewhat sparce regarding butterflies ~ BUT NOT THIS YEAR ! I have never seen so many butterflies! The Chinese Privet in my front yard had more than 50 butterflies on it this afternoon.
Question Mark
(Polygonia interrogationis)
(Fabricius, 1798)
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Identification: Forewing hooked; upperside is red-orange with black spots. Upperside hindwing of summer form is mostly black with a short tail; that of winter form has much orange and a longer, violet-tipped tail. Underside is light brown; hindwing with pearly white question mark in center.
I’ve spent the day typing a job application. I really don’t like filling in application forms and it takes me ages! I’m really, really keen on this job so I want to do the best application I can, even though in my mind I’m trying to stop myself from getting my hopes up that I’ll even get an interview. Still, you don’t know if you don’t try.
Took this with my new +8 close up filter. It arrived yesterday in a little pack of 4 filters. I now also have a UV filter which I desperately needed to protect my lens, a diffuser filter and a polarising filter. I’ve also got myself a 90 degree spy lens attachment which I haven’t really tried out properly but it’ll be fun when I have a chance to use it out and about somewhere and try to get some candid shots. These are all cheaper bits of kit I decided to get and play with before taking them on my trip to Portugal in a few weeks. I intend to spend as much time as I can on the trip taking photos and trying out some new techniques.