Long Hollow

"The butterfly counts not months, but moments, and has time enough."  

 ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 

The Hollow is filled with butterflies these days… word got out about all of the beautiful wildflowers, I suppose. Many of them are too quick for me and my camera, but this beauty stayed put long enough for me to snap several shots. 

It and the others remind me of the beauty of life, of the miracles all around us. The past few weeks have been emotionally overstuffed for me, but when I watch the butterflies dance from flower to flower I feel the stress slip away. 

I'm more aware of this moment, and grateful for it, just as it is by itself… not as part of a path I've tread to get here or part of the one that leads away, but just right here, right now.

I hope you enjoy the photographs and find inspiration from these quotes I gathered… it seems butterflies are overflowing with inspiration! Tiny gifts, tiny reminders from God. 

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." – author unknown

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. 

~ Maya Angelou

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun

And find your shoulder to light on,

To bring you luck, happiness and riches

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
 
~ Richard Bach
 

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 
 
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
 

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

~Hans Christian Anderson

      It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. 

~ Vita Sackville-West