With final exams, school projects due, work projects due, and the rest of life, I’ve been stressing and slacking on uploading science photos to my flickr account. I’m glad I took the time to get to it tonight for an hour or so of naturalist zen. Lacking anything more profound, I’ll just say this:

Butterflies are pretty.

Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus Credit: Moi

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~Richard Buckminster Fuller

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. ~Author Unknown

See the complete flickr set here

PDF of the Butterfly species at the exhibit here