Tuesday, August 12, 2014

So delicately, like a silver fob

The photograph was taken in Kajaani on July 23rd. The exact species is unknown because I didn't see the underside of the wings.

(Posting title is from the poem Consecration by Susan Stewart.)

2 comments:

Markus said...

Fine iuxtaposition of that technical surface with the perfect form of the butterfly. Such things almost make me wonder about creation (beware, I am certainly no creationist!). But a wonder such things are, can't help it.

Juha Haataja said...

In Finnish this particular type of butterfly is "hopeatäplä", "silver spot", and the name fits the surface at a bridge construction site.