LEPIDOPTERA FANTASTIC

 

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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BUTTERFLY DAYS

 

“To everything there is a season…”

 

~ Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ~

 

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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

 

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.

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WHAT IT COST ME

 

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

 

~ Janet Todd ~

 

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SHE SHINES

 

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

 

~ Nicholas Sparks ~

 

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ROSES FOR MILADY

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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LA CHAMBRE ROUGE

 

“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,

Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”  

 

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

 

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THE OBSERVER

 

“I am Raven.

I am black as liquid night with wings

and my eyes are stars to see by.”

 

~ Sophia Rose ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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ROSE

 

“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”

 

~ Fernando Pessoa ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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DREAMDANCER

 

“Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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FRAISE

 

“Strawberry fields forever”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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LE BAISER

 

“How far away the stars seem,

and how far is our first kiss,

and ah, how old my heart.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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LE SÉDUCTRICE

 

“It is not enough to conquer;

one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) taken in August 2018.

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STILL LIFE

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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COCOON OF DREAMS

 

“Old age is like an opium dream.

Nothing seems real except the unreal.”

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

 

Original photo taken in July 2017.

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BEE

 

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Notre Dame in Paris in June 2017.

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OTNASNOM UOY KCUF

 

“When bees die through pesticide poisoning,

it should ring alarm bells throughout the agricultural system

that we ignore at our peril.”

 

~ Phil Chandler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.

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