Uncommon Blue by helenmoss

Uncommon Blue

After arriving home from holiday last night the first job this morning was to pick the dogs up from kennels. They stayed with friends most of the time and were only in kennels 3 nights but they were as excited as if we'd been away for a year (but then, they act the same way when I've been out to the shop for half an hour, so it's hard to tell what exactly the Canine Concept of Time really is!). I took them for a long walk on the Gog Magog hills (hills, only in the Cambridgeshire sense of the word, with their highest point at 246 ft above sea level!) It was a lovely sunny morning and one patch of wild flowers was covered with little blue butterflies; if I'd been quick enough on the draw, I'd have caught the cloud of them fluttering up as the dogs blundered through, but instead I was able to catch this little chap who considerately stayed behind - he did fly away but maybe the damage on his wing was slowing him down. I think he deserves a more glamorous name than Common Blue.
Beautiful! Love how soft he looks.
August 11th, 2010  
nice shot - see so few butterflies these days... and to think in my childhood, we'd all have butterfly nets and would catch dozens every day..
August 11th, 2010  
What a beautiful picture, and it goes without saying, a gorgeous butterfly! Welcome home!
August 11th, 2010  
Wow, it looks unreal!
August 12th, 2010  
Beautiful color and clarity
August 12th, 2010  
Incredibly beautiful!
August 12th, 2010  
Helen...this is simply stunning!
What a magnificent capture!
August 12th, 2010  
Gorgeous!
August 12th, 2010  
Lovely. Its very beautyful
August 12th, 2010  
He is so fuzzy and beautiful. My may be 'common' but I have never seen one like him. Thank you!
August 12th, 2010  
Such a delicate portrait of a lovely butterfly.
August 12th, 2010  
Beautiful shot like the way your butterfly opened its wings for you.
August 12th, 2010  
Beautiful!
August 15th, 2010  
Lovely colour and the furry detail round the edges of its wings.
August 16th, 2010  
Lovely shot.
October 21st, 2010  
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