Outside the Day Butterfly Center, a Japanese star magnolia tree was coming into bloom in the late afternoon light.
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Mar 012014
From yesterday’s visit to the Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens, here are images of two butterflies that were willing to be photographed: an owl butterfly (with the prominent eye spots on the undersides of the wings) and a paper kite. There were many others that offered me only transitory glimpses, dashing off before I could focus the camera lens….
Mar 012014
I ventured to Callaway Gardens yesterday afternoon, spending nearly two hours in the Day Butterfly Center. The result, of course, is these photographs of…tropical plant leaves. I must say that the leaves were much more willing subjects for the lens than the butterflies. I will include a few butterfly images in a second post from my trip. Meanwhile, these leaves often welcome splashes of color in a drab, still somewhat wintery, time of year.
Mar 012014
I turned the corner onto Piney Woods Church Road this afternoon to be greeted by the first orb web I have seen this season. The minute spider was resting near the center of her construction. There were some imperfections in the web’s symmetry; but then again, the young spider, like this photographer, is a novice at her craft.
