intruder alert

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

what a surprise it was this morning to find this unexpected visitor clinging to an inside windowframe upstairs.  I have no idea how it got in, nor how long it has been here, but fearing for what would happen should it attract feline attention I let it outside, but not before taking this image. 

so ends the resolve (based on yesterday's raw image data) of standing down from photos until the camera innards can get a good cleaning this evening.  the window glass looks like it could use some too. 

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Comments

[peach-salsa.livejournal.com]

Butterflies are mezmerizing.

I recently went hiking, and they took turns fluttering and dancing around me for the first quarter mile. Once I stepped beyond the perimeter of their food circle, they could escort me no further. I felt like Dorothy looking back toward her friends standing at the border of Munchkinland.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's some prosaic explanation of this behaviour -- perhaps you were emitting pheremones or wearing some colour they favour.  but when something that magical happens it takes all the fun out of it to have the scientific explanation available. 

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have you ever gone through a butterfly migration?  they can be difficult to detect unless you are particularly looking out for one -- it will merely seem that there are more of them about than usual, often not by much, because the flock (so to speak) is dispersed over an area of many square miles at any given time. 
in network security terms we'd call it a low bandwidth attack. 

[peach-salsa.livejournal.com]

in network security terms we'd call it a low bandwidth attack.

Hee!

No, I've never been in the midst of a butterfly migration (that I know of). My experience not long ago could have well been that, I suppose, but I'd like to think - and this is my romantic tendency - that the butterflies were there as part of a more divine plan. (You see, I often pray while I am hiking or biking or swimming.)

I don't like letting 'coincidence' lay ownership to any of my experiences.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

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> I don't like letting 'coincidence' lay ownership to any of my experiences.
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that gets deeper than I can really understand. 
any divine plan would by its very nature have to be inscrutable from the human level, so one wouldn't have a way to distinguish it from the workings of coincidence.  other than by choice: what matters is the underlying faith and belief on which rest the structure of one's view of the universe.  the rest all flows from that. 

but what do I know?  I ain't no philosopher. 
fortunately, I don't think I need to be one to experience wonder at the beauty, intricacy and interconnectedness of the natural world that surrounds us.