One day a couple of weeks ago, I was perusing my Facebook
page and came across an announcement from Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory
that there was an influx there of Blue Morpho butterflies. I was feeling a bit better from the cold that
has plagued me since the beginning of the year, so that sounded like a good
field trip for me and my daughter Carrie.
We found a date when we were both free and I drove out to Northampton
and went on to Magic Wings in South Deerfield.
I didn’t realize until we got there that it was Martin Luther King Day. The place was full of kids. Now, don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great that kids go to Magic
Wings and places like that, but it does make the place more crowded. Oh, well…might as well enjoy it anyhow.
You know me enough to know that the one thing I truly enjoy
about outings like this is that I can take hundreds of photos. That just makes me happy. I was so looking forward to capturing that
magnificent blue on those Blue Morpho butterflies. Well, what I didn’t realize is that you only
see the blue while they are flying. Once
they land, the wings go together….ZIP!
And all you see is the brown that is the underneath. With the remnants of my cold and the crowded
conditions slowing me down, I got ZIP! I shouldn’t complain. There are many butterflies who probably envy
that nice brown bottom of the Blue Morpho because it is beautiful in its own
right. But I was disappointed. I wanted that blue.
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| The beautiful underneath of the Blue Morpho. |
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| The best of a bad batch! At least you can see the blue. |
We did see other cool things that day, including
a new family of Bearded Dragons and a really cool fern frond that was beginning
to unfurl.
The Hibiscus flowers were a nice bright spot on
a very dreary, very cold day.
But I am disappointed that I couldn’t get that
blue. Seems like the story of my life
these days. I started out 2013 with that
darn cold that is just now beginning to go away. Then managed to pick up a stomach virus. So missing the Blue Morpho is just par for
the course.
Things can only get better….right?
