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Butterflies In Winter, Butterflies in Summer

Posted in Butterflies, My Paintings, Natural Phenomena on January 21, 2019| 1 Comment »

As summer winds down, the butterfly finds fewer flowers to sip from and, when the first hard freeze arrives, it is preserved in ice to be discovered the next spring. Such a contrast from the sunny days of summer when this fragile-winged creature flits through fields of flowers completing its life cycle and assuring new generations of butterflies. The revolving wheel of life!

Winter Butterfly

Summer Butterfly and the Moon

Summer Butterfly

Butterflies and Lupines

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Dinosaur Butterflies

Posted in Butterflies, My Paintings on January 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »

In the time of dinosaurs (150 million years ago) there lived the ancestors of the modern butterflies called Lacewings. When the impression of a Lacewing was discovered pressed into stone the finder/scientist cleverly took tiny bits of the stone and ground it up to examine it and determine the color of the eye spot and wings. Here is my imagined re-creation of the lacewing based on his findings along with a photo of the Red Admiral butterfly currently seen in the Rio Grande Valley.