There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sunny spots
butterfly
Viceroy butterfly
“To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.” ~Fennel Hudson
Cloudless Sulphur
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
Butterflies
A few of the different butterflies that I’ve seen in our area recently.
“It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting.” ~Todd Ruthman
Swallowtail on a butterfly bush
“Discovering this idyllic place, we find ourselves filled with a yearning to linger here, where time stands still and beauty overwhelms.” ~Unknown
Hackberry Emperor
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
~ C. S. Lewis
Silvery Checkerspot
“If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” ~Unknown
Pearl Crescent
This Pearl crescent butterfly danced with the wind all around the backyard and eventually landed on a wooden board to soak up some afternoon sun.
“Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.” ~Unknown
November butterfly
A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam …
and for a brief moment it’s glory
and beauty belong to our world …
But then it flies on again, and although
we wish it could have stayed,
we are so thankful to have seen it at all.
~Unknown
Autumn butterfly
This Question Mark butterfly blended in well with the fallen autumn leaves lying beside our country road.
“… [Summer’s] spirit lives on in the flittering Autumn butterfly, the warmth of the waning sunlight and in the last lingering flower on the vine.” ~Linda Poindexter
