Saturday, August 26, 2017

Zugunruhe Blues



Silkscreen, pen and ink, watercolor, and rubber stamp.

3 comments:

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

earlier this summer i went to the smithsonian museum of natural history in d.c. for the first time in several years, with visiting relatives, and encountered the "butterfly pavilion" there - it is a fee-based experience, except on tuesdays, although the museum has free admission

however, they also have

http://www.gardens.si.edu/our-gardens/pollinator-garden.html


as robert louis stevenson put it,

“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

zencomix said...

It's been about 20 years since I was in a butterfly pavilion, back in Colorado. It's good they're keeping things alive with breeding programs, I just wonder what it is like for a wild thing that migrates and roams to be confined, what happens to the migratory restlessness that is the zugunruhe?

Coffee Messiah said...

Nicely done = Cheers!