At home last Monday morning - when I was really missing the wild surroundings we had enjoyed on our trip - I discovered this lovely creature on our stone patio. I like it that this moth found it suitable to rest there. Our chair is not a tree - but he was shaded enough to rest there all day - and the grays of his surroundings suited him perfectly. My sons and I checked on him often throughout the day and even played near him and he stayed. He was gone the next morning.
I had wanted to see what the lower wings would look like if opened - but I hadn't had the heart to disturb him.
how beautiful...lucky you. I may have to make a moth as my next beast.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to be able to view this moth all day long.... and at such close proximity.
ReplyDeleteI like the moth/butterfly beast you have created.
Jacky xox
susan ~ my guess is that this is
ReplyDeletea hawk moth and if my guess is correct, then actually, his/her
lower wing is really quite similar to what you intuited......
i am happy this evening from reading all this. it makes a very
good difference to me in my world
far away but, really, not.
love to you and your sons and
the moth and the world we live in
as co=habitants, grace
thank you all
ReplyDeleteGrace-I remember your post about the hawk moths and I wondered if this might be one. I liked the connectedness in that too - my place and yours.
susan...yes. we are connected.
ReplyDeletemothly and otherwise. it feels
really good to me
i am really really tired tonight but want to tell you...
ReplyDeletemy daughter and i had a long
space of time yesterday in Albuquerque to wait till we could pick up her dogs from the spay clinic. we realized we didn't really want to
shop
or anything.
we'd had breakfast and so that left out eating cause we were full.
so we sat, layed on the grass by the art museum and just talked.
and what came of that was:
what if Alyssia, her daughter, my granddaughter, might NEED help?
What if her best layed plans went
awry (sp.?) what if she needed
family, her mother? what if my
daughter jenny felt like she
needed to
move
like across country
to help
for this little guy, julian who
is not even a year yet?
what if that caused great conflict
for her because i
her mother
was committed to this place
????
and i thought of you, your sense
of committment to your Self
to your boys
and how it is such a conflict.
hi susan..tell the boys that this
ReplyDeletetoad they liked is bigger than
a baseball...a BIG old toad. there
are more, different ages, and i don't know what a toads life span is? but this one i think is very old. they don't mind being touched but do not like being
gathered up in any way. flower
petals fell from the sunflower
and the rose bush. i thought it
was a wonderful scene. i am trying
to wait patiently enough to get a pic of the new little lizards..
less than an inch long but with those amazing blue tails and faces.