In The Rain Garden, BlackBerry Shots, Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
sizzling hot palette
summer in Minnesota
resting on the wing
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, July 24th, 2010
-related to post: haiku 2 (one-a-day)
Just beautiful.
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Graham, thank you. And thanks for stopping by red Ravine. If anyone knows what kind of flowers these are, I’d love to know. The butterfly, too. If I look at the other side of the butterfly, it looks kind of like a moth.
Here’s another shot of the flower and butterly from a different angle:
I know if our blog friend Bo stops by she might know! Maybe I’ll drop a line and ask her. I haven’t had as much time (or taken as much time) to research these details lately. I love research. But it’s very time consuming. Some people just know their flowers off the top of the head. I’ve never been like that. My memory is a little shorter. Thanks for all who stop and read here!
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It looks like a plant called Liatris (common name: Blazing-star): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liatris.
Lovely photo!
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on a purple blazing-star
my breath captured
by a butterfly
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Stunning!
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Gorgeous, and I love your haiku as well. And A~Lotus’s haiku is equally lovely.
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Lotus, thanks for looking that up. It looks exactly like the Blazing-star in the link you posted. I like the other common names, too: Gay-feather and Button snakeroot. Now for the butterfly. This one looked a lot like a moth on the other side. I was looking at a butterfly book at Moose Lake State Park last weekend. There are so many different kinds. I like butterflies. They get my attention. But am more drawn to dragonflies for the ancient way they look.
Thanks, Q & J. Appreciate you stopping by. And your comments.
Lotus, tanka:
on a purple blazing-star
my breath captured
by a butterfly —
seconds later in exhale,
just as quickly, you were gone
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