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Ssh-Butterfly

black and yellow butterfly on orange-high lantanas take off husband grabs branch releases wing from spider’s web in final passby colorful butterfly breezes past window pane humid & hopeful days red, white, blue flag waves stars flutter behind afternoon skies trustworthy diamonds things seen and unseen nevertheless God’s eyes see all

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Bill Baker

Date: 7/14/2025 8:51:00 PM

Nice thing for hubby to do, helping the butterfly out of web. Lovely poem, Kim. The imagery was its usual excellence. We have lantanas across our front flower bed each year. Most people think of them as annual, but they are perennial in central and south Texas. Have a great week! Bill

David Crandall

Date: 7/14/2025 5:14:00 PM

We get lots of black and orange butterflies here. I like the yellow and black ones. I think that might be a swallowtail, but I don't see as many as when I was a kid.

David Crandall

Date: 7/14/2025 4:06:00 PM

Thanks for sharing the view. I just googled lantana's and found that's the plant that was in my childhood backyard Zillions of these miniature butterflies that we called buttercups fed on them.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 7/14/2025 4:36:00 PM

So cool, David! My youngest daughter gifted this plant to me! It sits on my front porch! My husband thinks the butterfly was a monarch.

Joe Dimino

Date: 7/14/2025 3:04:00 PM

"things seen and unseen nevertheless God’s eyes see all" -- Wonderful! Perfect! Can't hide if we try -- though He often gracefully ignores...or I would be toast already.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 7/14/2025 4:36:00 PM

It is His wonderful mercy and grace…oh how He loves us!