The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
This tiny British butterfly is a male Common Blue. It’s about an inch across. And while it might be among our most common UK butterflies, having one pose like this is a rare occurrence. They’re usually pretty skittish, so you only catch a glint, a flitting chink of summer sky, and then they’re gone. This was a chance encounter on a summer’s evening.
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Expectations are like clouds – beautiful from afar, yet vanishing when you reach for them Monika Ajay Kaul
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The light does not stay… Tennessee Williams
There’s that moment as the sun disappears when there’s just enough light to take a photo.
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So passeth, in the passing of the day, of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
Edmund Spencer
The glory of a Morning Glory is so brief, half a day at most. And you need to be up early to catch the best of it. I’m not sure how long the runner bean flowers last, perhaps a couple of days before they’re fertilised and begin to transform into beans. I must pay more attention next summer.
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mutation of weathers
and seasons,
a windfall composing
the floor it rots into
Seamus Heaney North
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The wind shall blow them none knows whither
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foolhardy or deeply ironic: a dandelion clock for a timepiece? But then it always was such fun, huffing and puffing, seeing how far those little parachutes would fly. A sure way to annoy a gardener.
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Leaves are the verbs that conjugate the seasons
Gretel Ehrlich The Solace of Open Spaces
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Two seasons on Much Wenlock’s Linden Walk. Watching the leaves come and go through the year is another kind of time-keeping. The quiet sort.
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Lens-Artists: Ephemeral This week Tina sets the theme. Call in to see her thoughtful and inspiring post.
so much beauty in this post
So pleased you loved it, Becky.
Oh you have kept your wits about you for this post. Quite lovely.
All compliments gratefully accepted, Margaret. It’s good to shake up the little grey cells.
Wow Tish, what an amazing and beautiful response to this challenge!
Many thanks, Anne. It’s not always easy to see change and transience in the best light, so I thought I’d try to make the most of it with ‘caught’ moments.
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So lovely Tish, from start to finish. All of your images are lovely and you quotes are such a perfect match. The whole post reads like a beautifully illustrated poem.
That is such a very lovely comment, Tina. Thank you, and also for hosting this week’s theme.
I laughed at the comment about blowing dandelions, enjoyed the aptly paired quotes, especially appreciated the last two photos, and ended with, as so often happens with your posts, a “peaceful, easy feeling.” (Thanks to the Eagles for the line.)
‘a peaceful, easy feeling’. That’s very pleasing to know, Janet. I’m often aware how easy it is to be negative, so do try to aim for the soothing end of the emotional spectrum.
Loveliest!
Thank you, Sarah.
I have been wondering how it is that witnessing one piece of earth and everything growing on (in) it for decades has helped me live through all the usual nastinesses and nonsenses, and will help me….and this ever-recurring ephemerality, as is, is definitely a unique teacher. Ever-recurring , fruitful and quite unlike the flickering net which is also ephemeral!
Wise words, Sarah. These days it’s so easy to lose touch with earth reality. So many time-consuming, but otherwise empty distractions. These instead of seeing what is happening now, around us; every moment; a living system.
Such a beautiful post Tish, and with some inspirational quotes 😀 I love the one from Spenser and even more so the one from Gretel Ehrlich which was completely new to me. I’ve never manged to photograph a Common Blue so that’s a great capture. And your comment on the dandelion clock reminded me of how my sister and I were banned fro blowing on them in our garden (but often disobeyed!)
So happy this post hit so many spots, Sarah. The Gretel Ehrlich book (a collection of essays) looks very interesting. I’ve not read it yet.
Love everything with this post, Tish. A poem it is in every sense.
Many thanks, Ann-Christine.
What a great set of images, Tish. As always, I love to see that Linden walk
I thought you’d be pleased to see it again, Sue. Me too!
Tish, beautiful images and thoughts.
Many thanks, Beth.
Tish, what a marvelous post. The quotes you used for each image are also beautiful.
I’m so pleased you liked this, Egidio. Many thanks.
Lovely post, Tish. The Morning Glory is a favourite as is the Common Blue, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen.
I had a packet of mixed Morning Glory seeds, and one of the sowings i made produced several plants with these white flowers. Very pleasing among the runner beans 🙂
Beautiful post, Tish, and my favorites are the two skies, especially that golden sky with the silhouetted fence
Many thanks, John. I’m pleased those sky shots resonated.
A beautiful post with thought provoking quotes. Always love to see the linden walk
Many thanks, Pauline. As I said to Sue, I was pleased to see the Linden Walk photos too 🙂
What a great blog. I feel like I’ve been for a walk in the countryside 🙂
That’s a very lovely comment, Steve. Thank you.
Wonderful response to that challenge. The blue is a good catch
Many thanks, I.J. The Common Blue was a star moment. It actually posed for some seconds.