This is the first Northern Crescent butterfly I’ve seen this year and he sure is a beauty! Look at those vibrant colors!
He was hanging out right on the trail as we walked by, and was very accommodating, waiting for us to take our photographs before moving on.
William Wordsworth, ‘To a Butterfly’.
I’ve watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!–not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again …
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/02/best-poems-about-butterflies/