The pink blossoms finally had a visitor. A nice little yellow butterfly. I was delighted as these particular flowers , which we had planted last year with very high hopes, had finally managed to attract their second visitor of the year. I see plenty of butterflies flying by from the window, some even breed in the garden, but they sure don’t like to stay for lunch.
I clicked a picture, and after the butterfly left , went to the books to find something to write about it.
The grass yellow is as simple as it gets. In fact, if I jog my memories and try to recall the first butterfly I had ever seen in my life , I think it would be a this one. The first butterfly I ever ran after and caught would be this one. This would also be the kind that I first tried to photograph and later did not bother to photograph at all since there was always something better to click.
The book did a funny thing to this yellow butterfly. The book didn’t stop after calling it a grass yellow. I had to make a choice. There’s the One spot grass yellow and the Three spot grass yellow and the Small grass yellow and a Spotless grass yellow. Then there is the Chocolate grass yellow and finally the Common grass yellow.
When I realized that I love nature, I did not even know that butterflies had names. My love for nature never diminished in spite of my scientific ignorance. Question is , has it really increased due to my ever expanding scientific knowledge ?
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