Showing posts with label Butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Butterfly. Show all posts

Sunday, January 30, 2011

El Béisbol con un Plátano (The Baseball and the Banana)



Miami had excellent murals.  You saw one in a previous post, Sunny Skies and Marvelous Murals, and now I want to share some other ones!  This one, with a detail shown above, was one of my favourites.  It was on the outer wall of a preschool, and showed a bunch of children with fruit for bodies playing baseball.  This great scene overlooked their little parking lot, complete with a tiny outdoor playset.  Adorable!  I wish I had taken a photograph of the entire scene so that I could share it with you, I was very enchanted.

On the street side of the building were more murals, showing a butterfly and trees. This serene little scene was paired with their sign advertising Judo classes!  I looked at something later, and it turns out that this place also ran a day care for older children, and part of the daycare was that they have to take a Judo class.  How awesome is that?  Hey kids, you have to go here after school because mummy and daddy are still at work, but it's okay because, you know what?  You get to fight stuff.  
But my favourite was the mural painted on the glass door- of a little girl with mended faerie wings.


The whole thing was just so darn cute and full of childish imagination.  I wish I could remember the name of the place, but I don't.  In any case, it made me happy, and I hope that these photographs make you happy too.


Miami, Florida, USA
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Monday, November 22, 2010

The Mighty Monarch










Ooh, pretty butterflies on butterfly bushes.  

I definitely walked all over a person's lawn while taking these photos, but this sight was too gorgeous to resist.  Tresspassing has to happen sometimes, when beautiful photos are on the line!

These are definitely old at this point... I took them in mid-September, which doesn't feel like very long ago, but was actually two monthes ago.  Wow, time flies.  This blog is almost a year old!  Ridiculous.

ALSO.  Kudos to all of you who caught the Venture Bros. reference in the title.  I'm so excited for the season 4.5 finale it's preposterous.  For those of you who haven't ever watched the show, check it out.  It's a bit of Adult Swim brilliance wrapped up in more cultural references than South Park and The Simpsons put together.  But, like, seriously.  Venture Bros and Archer on FX have replaced the aforementioned as the funniest shows on TV, in my opinion.  If you value my opinion, you should check them out...

"Butterfly kisses.  I learned them in prison."

Beach Haven, New Jersey, USA

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Flutter By Again


Another shot of that same beautiful, black butterfly.  Took my breath away.

Sorry, once again, for the lack of posts recently.  I work fourteen hour days, and I just haven't had time to deal with my blog lately.  I shall try to be better about it.

West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Flutter By


This was taken in my parents' backyard.  They have zinnias all over the place in the fall... all of the flower beds that have been full of other plants get simply taken over.  Orange, purple, pink and yellow dominate the yard, rather than the expected green.  And what comes along with them?  Butterflies.  Dozens of them!  Simple moth-like ones all the way to elegant blue and yellow ones.  Stand in that yard for five minutes, and I guarantee that you will see six or seven different types of butterflies. It's absolutely magical.

West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA