Friday, September 25, 2020

Poets also love butterflies

Who doesnt love butterflies?

 

They are dainty, fluttery, ethereal and just overall pretty. It is difficult to remain sad in the company of butterflies. I guess.

 

So for the last few days, while driving to work I have observed just thousands of butterflies flying east. 

Yup, they are flying in herds from west to east. I had never read/heard about butterfly migration, let alone witness it. Its so beautiful. And easy to miss if one doesnt know what to look at.

 

A little digging around and I found the name of these pretty things - pieris brassicae.

 

Never too late to learn something new :)

 

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Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

~ William Faulkner ~


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