It's A Small Word After All - Blue - Verse
by Anita Faye
Title
It's A Small Word After All - Blue - Verse
Artist
Anita Faye
Medium
Photograph - Photography, Digital Art,
Description
Photograph of a female Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly with a delightful dewdrop shown after various digital effects and textures with Bible verse Luke 16:10.
Information from Wikipedia:
The eastern tailed-blue or eastern tailed blue (Cupido comyntas), also known as Everes comyntas, is a common butterfly of eastern North America. It is a medium-sized butterfly that is distinguished from other blues in its range by the small thin tail. Males are generally blue on the upperside of their wings while females are lighter blue to brown or charcoal in coloring, but there are also varieties of purple and pink found in both sexes. The underside coloration ranges from bluish-white to tan. There are two or three (outermost one often faint) black to orange chevron-shaped spots on the rear of the hind wings and a trailing tail off the innermost of the spots. The butterfly is 21 to 29 mm (0.83 to 1.14 in) wide with wings outstretched and slightly shorter in length. Eastern tailed-blues feed on various legumes and are known to secrete a substance which is favored by some ant species. The ant in turn protects the larva of the butterfly from other predators. The butterfly is common across eastern North America, and is found as far south as Central America. The Great Plains form a habitat boundary between the Eastern and the much less common but similar western tailed-blue butterfly. The central section of California and portions of the states of Oregon and Washington also has eastern tailed blues, which likely adapted to the habitat after being brought there inadvertently by man. The species is virtually absent from the Rocky Mountain region. Often found in sunny, open habitat. The caterpillars feed on the seeds and flowers, and sometimes the leaves, of various legumes, including vetches and clover.
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March 31st, 2016
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Comments (20)
Brian Tada
Re-visiting this marvelous butterfly portrait and Scripture with a foundational life principle... A lovely work of art, Anita! F/L
Brian Tada
Love this motivational and inspiring image, Anita! Truly a great life principle for success, and so beautifully and wonderfully illustrated! L/F
Anita Faye replied:
Thank you so much Brian! My grandmother would often tell me tend to the little things. ;)
Anita Faye
Thank you Hazel and Laurie for visiting this wonder of nature... a tiny butterfly hardly bigger than the dew drop behind it ;)
Hazel Holland
Love this wonderful capture and processing along with perfect Scripture verse, Anita! L/F
Karen Adams
This is so beautiful in image and word....I am constantly amazed at the great care and love that is shown in the creation of even the smallest and most overlooked in this world! . . . fv
Anita Faye replied:
The dew was still on the grass, it touched me how small this little beauty was and like you say how easily it is overlooked. Thank you for visiting this one! ;)
HH Photography of Florida
This is lovely, Anita. Beautiful butterfly, treatment and passage. L/fv/g+