Common Nature

Not suggesting that it was deliberate on the butterfly’s part, of course; merely a moment’s happy accident.

(Back in Ohio, I tended to subdivide spring into approximate yellow, pink, purple, and white stages: crocuses, dandelions, forsythia, and daffodils; redbud, magnolia, dogwood, apple, and crabapple; violets, lilacs, and irises; hawthorn, bridal veil, Japanese honeysuckle, and viburnum.)