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| I was surprised to find this splendid Monarch butterfly on Bradford Street | . |
Hurrying to
beat the clock on Saturday afternoon, I was headed for the farmers market
before they closed. On the way there I noticed there was someone ahead of me on
the street, bent over with her cell phone out.
She was taking
a picture, so as I walked by I looked to see what she had spotted. If I hadn't
seen her stopped at the edge of Bradford Street, or had hurried by half a
minute later, I would have walked right past this little flower bed, and missed
this truly gorgeous butterfly.
Luckily, I
didn't let being in a hurry stop me from observing what was there for me, and I
took just the tiniest moment to enjoy the lovely sight the planet was offering
to anyone paying attention.
It seemed a
little odd to find this elegant butterfly in PTown just now, slurping up nectar
from flowers freshly budding, just as the chill of this brilliant autumn
weather has us all digging out our woolly socks and sweaters once again, but
still not quite ready to pack away our shorts and sandals.
And whadda
ya know? Amid these new flower buds there stood a daffodil (at this time of
year!?!) that I almost missed, because it was exactly the same sunny yellow
color as these mums that surrounded it.
Every day,
Provincetown presents us with hundreds of jewels large and small, scattered all
through the town by the fistfuls. Watch for them out on the beaches, or right
on the streets. Stop and smell the roses, as it were. Listen for the sounds of
hundreds of bird species stopping here on their migrations, bringing us new
bird calls you may never have heard before. Taste a wild cranberry while you're
biking/hiking/strolling through the low spots in the forests and dunes...
There are a
couple of gazillion ways to find a little treat for yourself on any day spent in Provincetown, whether
you come upon a stirring sight, have a little taste of something wild, catch a
captivating scent wafting by, happen into an encounter with the myriad wildlife
surrounding us... or stumble across a butterfly and a daffodil showing up way
out of season.
Any or all
of these can be yours any day here, simply for paying attention.
TYTYTYTYTY :) Lovely photo + ...
ReplyDeleteIt was amazingly lucky that my cell phone managed to focus on the flitting wings of this gorgeous butterfly, and got the detail of the delicate, curvy, convex sections of those wings.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my blog!