May 2, 2008

Unusual Beauty

My girlfriend Sue, sent me an email with these gorgeous butterflies, they are unlike anything I had ever seen before.
So I wanted to share them with you too...
Here is an excerpt from the email. "Glasswing butterflies live in South America. A butterfly with transparent wings are rare and beautiful. As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red. All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed; in life that which is unnoticed has the most power. "
Thank you for sharing Sue! Please click on the image to enlarge.


1 comment:

Leigh Ayn said...

Those are so beautiful!

I hopped on over from BeThriftyLikeUs, to answer a question you asked!

My CVS card seems to print a $3/$15 coupon almost every time I go, but that is the only type of $/$$ coupon it has ever given me. My brother has never gotten a $/$$!