I’ve been sitting in the middle of I5 for nearly 3 hours. They’re clearing an overturned big rig with a load of steel I-beams. I’m trying to think of something soothing. How about a butterfly. This one showed up on the porch this morning. Good thing the kitten wasn’t around. Does anyone know it’s name?
Normally, I’d have my sketch pad, but not today. I have a project to finish too. Instead I’ll have to settle for a butterfly.
THE FORESTER ARTIST
Creating art on the big canvas and the small ones too
THE FORESTER ARTIST 
Looks like a red admiral. Nice shot too.
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Thanks Yvonne, you know your butterflies!
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Tim, I know those I’ve seen “up close and personal” otherwise I need to look them up. I wish I was smart about the insect world.
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A smart person knows where to look them up! 😉
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Hee hee.
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Yep, I’d say Red Admiral too. Lovely! 🙂
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It’s good to be surrounded by experts! Thanks Rebecca.
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Yes, the wondrous power of asking the ‘peoplenet’ – it’s so brilliant for this kind of thing. What did we ever do without it? 🙂 (P.S., I’m not in any way an expert, we just have a lot of these where I live!) 😉
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I’d say that makes you a Red Admiral expert!
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Tim,
Let’s play Give it a Name. How about Tiger Ring? Sorry you were hung up due to an accident. So thankful you weren’t involved in the crash. Even without your sketch pad, you found a way to be creative and share beauty with others. Lovely butterfly!
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“Tiger Ring”, that’s clever! If it didn’t already have a name that would have been my first submission. It was a tiny blessing to have our little visitor on the porch. Lucky for the butterfly it missed the kitten. She was there the morning before chasing moths. 😮
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I agree: red admiral. I really like the shadow play. (K)
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I am surround by butterfly expertise! I don’t think I’ll ever have to look them up again. I’ll just asked my WP friends. Thanks Kerfe, I carefully integrated the shadow in the composition….Okay, not really just dumb luck. 😉
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The best kind!
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Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good!
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Beautiful butterfly! I don’t know what it’s name is so I just agree with the others: red admiral. LOL!
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I thinks so too! I’m with you Joy and going to go along with my experts.
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LOL! We both learned something new!
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We should learn something new everyday.
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Yes, we should. 🙂
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You folks are good, Red Admiral it is. So I found this site with “Fun Facts” about it, http://www.butterfly-fun-facts.com/butterfly-species/butterflies-p-t/red-admiral-vanessa-atalanta/. Did you know the the original name was “Red Admirable.” How appropriate is that. Also, it spends it’s caterpillar phase living on nettles. We have stinging nettles here and they fiercely painful if you touch them. Any caterpillar that eats nettles is okay in my book.
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Wee! and thank you also for the info on it’s caterpillar eating stinging nettles. It is a perfect un-tattered young red admiral and you have taken a beautiful photo of it. thanks for sharing.
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Thank you so much Holly!
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