This green,brown and white butterfly is called a juniper hairstreak. It has one orange and black eye-spot. The plant is a water mint which was very popular with all our visitors.
Here is a little grey hairstreak. This was my first picture with a new camera lens. The plant is a blue mist shrub which was also a popular choice with all our visiting insects. Here you get a better view of the orange and black eye spots. This is the most common type of hairstreak. Both the juniper and grey are very small. These pictures make them look larger than they are.
My recent posts have focused on eye-spots and seeing faces in patterns. Here is a close-up of the silver maple tree that was sacrificed for our flower pond. Can you see faces in the split bark? I used to see two faces here, and today I saw something new. I called them my tree people, and they were trapped within its trunk. I like to think that when the tree was cut down their spirits were set free.
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