- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: October 18, 2023
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.---JunichiroTanizaki (1886-1965), Japanese author.
The shadow knows, but what does it know?
It knows to follow.
It follows the Gulf Fritillary--a brightly colored orange and black butterfly with silver-spangled wings--up a fence in Vacaville, Calif., and vanishes.
That's what butterflies and shadows do--they vanish.
If you're growing passionflower vine (Passiflora), you've probably photographed the Agraulis vanillae egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the adult.
But its shadow?
Have you photographed its shadow, that dark silhouette intercepting rays of light?
The shadow knows, but what does it know?
It knows to follow.
Comments:
by Ruth Dahlquist-Willard
on October 19, 2023 at 8:11 AM
Beautiful photos and reflection. Who knows what evil lurks in the ganglia of butterflies… The Shadow Knows. ;)
by Karen Partoyan Holleran
on October 19, 2023 at 9:55 AM
Just beautiful! Thanks
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