We are in the air and on the move. If all goes well, my next post will be from sunny San Juan Puerto Rico! I will not be able to post, or comment on your wonderful posts for the next few days. But once we settle in, I hope to be back and blogging at least some of the time. Meanwhile I leave you with these holler butterflies and hopes that all is well with you!
They seemed to come suddenly on happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in a winter wood~ Edith Wharton
Painted Lady (Please click to enlarge).
The butterfly, a cabbage white,
(his honest idiocy of flight)
will never now, it is too late,
master the art of flying straight~ Robert Evans
Cabbage White
Butterflies are flowers that fly and all but sing~ Robert Frost
Black Veined Tiger
I do not know if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man~ Chaung Tzu
Tiger Swallow Tail
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has to go through to achieve that beauty~ Maya Angelou
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp~ Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
I ask only to be free. The butterflies are free~ Charles Dickens
The Holler is unseasonably warm and there are still flutterbyes here! May the sight of the butterflies warm your day! Sending you cheers and well wishes as we travel! Talk to soon from exotic islands!
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Gorgeous! You seem to be having a good time there. Have more fun.
I will try and keep you posted. Hope all is happy at your end also my friend!
Thank you 🙂
Wow, is all I can say.
Oh I love that word!!! 🙂
fabulous Cindy, the butterflies are happy and so are you, wonderful photos and I hope you are having fun!
So kind & so appreciated! Cheers to you too!
Beautiful. We have everyone of those butterflies in the summer.
Our weather is not at all normal, so we are having them in the winter too!
The flowers matched with the butterflies are simply beautiful .Thank you Cindy for sharing your photographs.
Thank you my friend for your kind appreciation!
Enjoy the warmth! It’s eleven degrees right now in Boston. : (
Yes it was 17 in Atlanta where we spent the night!!!!Stay Warm!
These are OMG fabulous! The first butterfly appears to have a long horn out on top of its lead. 😉 …Hard to pic my favorite, but the 1st, 3rd, and 4th are the most striking to me.
Yes the first one resembles a unicorn!! So glad you enjoyed!
Have a wonderful trip, Cindy! 🙂
Exquisite photos. Really love the close up views. 🙂
Merci my friend!
Breathtaking photos.
Greatly appreciated!
Amazing photos again! Have a wonderful and safe trip! 🙂
Mil grazi!
Enjoy your trip, Cindy!! Thank you for sharing the lovely butterflies
thank you for enjoying them!
Have fun!
Merci beaucoup!
Have a great trip, Cindy. Talk w/you when you return. 🙂
Be well cuz~
Happy travel, Cindy! These butterflies will stay with me for a long while…
Beautiful photos Cindy. Have a great time in PR!
Beautiflies!
Stunning butterflies, Cindy! Have lots of fun in Puerto Rico. 🙂
Those are amazing pictures. Wow!
Stunning pictures!
butterfly and flowers are very beautiful, the butterfly is a flying flower, all very beautiful and makes us always happy looking at it.
Gorgeous jewel like pictures Cindy! Have fun in the sun in San Juan! 🙂
Cindy, these images are awesome. I love butterflies. Will share them with my readers. Hugs! Veraiconica
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Cindy, thank you for these lovely pictures of butterflies. They are magical. I want to share them with my readers. Hugs! Veraiconica
Your photos never cease to amaze, Cindy. These are mind blowing. So delicate, so beautiful. ♥
Have a great trip. I will look forward to a new exotic locale down the road a spell. 🙂 Love the butterflies. Sigh of pleasure for the living flowers that have fled our cold waste land.
First, Cindy, have a great time in Puerto Rico. Second, the butterflies are beautiful in both there colors and patterns. But I absolutely love their faces. –Curt
Beautiful photos and matching quotes. Cindy, you surely were a bird or a butterfly once; you love to travel and fly as much as any of your winged friends 🙂
Great captures … beautiful…
Oh Cindy! What a pleasure to stop by for a visit! 🙂
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Thank you Cindy! So colorful bright and cheerful- imagine this post is just what the dr ordered for everyone stuck in blizzardsville with grey skies and below zero temps! I hope you have a good trip and I look forward to seeing the magic your camera makes of that gorgeous island:-)
Beautiful with the wonderful quotes. Enjoy your time !
Spectacular images; sublime quotes..
magic!
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I love your butterfly post, they are so colorful and fragile, gentle beauty! Love the poetry too! Have a safe flight and wonderful time on your trip! Hugz Lisa and Bear
WOW, what colors!!!!! Enjoy warm Puerto Rico! It’s 9 degrees in NY!!!!
Great~Love it
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Absolutely beautiful!
My late Grandma feared white butterflies. She was rather superstitious.
She was raised in a superstitious family and believed that white butterflies are ghostly beings.
She did not dare to harm them but she kept freaking out whenever she saw one in the house. LOL
Have a wonderful time and thanks for the awesome butterfly photographs – they are stunning.
beautiful
Wonderful gift to us–enjoy your holiday.
Wow, beautiful photos. Look forward to seeing some Puerto Rico ones!
What beautiful photos! And such a treat, considering how cold and blustery it is here today.
Thanks for the lovely color on a below zero day!
Gorgeous!
Cindy, these are magnificent! Thank you so much for sharing! I can’t stop looking at them!! 🙂
Have a good flight and a great time in the Caribbean.
Thank you and stay well and warm my friend! I am in Puerto Rico now and thinking of you and your wife~
Have a wonderful trip, Cindy! Your butterflies are lovely, and it’s wonderful to see so much color on this wintry day. 🙂
I hope they brightened the winter scene! Cheers to you!
Nice to see a touch of warm weather beauty in the midst of a cold winter, Cindy! So lovely!
Hope it warms your day my friend!