We took the kids to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle the other day. What a cool place to go! giant, old animatronic dinosaur exhibit, planetarium, live spiders and scorpions. But my most favorite part of the whole thing was our very last stop: The Butterfly House. I have never experienced such a magical and breath-taking site in all my life, as I did in this delightful garden. I wish I could have stayed all day. The whole thing is set up kind of like a greenhouse full of exotic plants and many species of butterflies that we would never see flitting around the northwest. It was also a welcoming tropical climate vacation from the chilly February temperatures we're seeing. Watching the flurry of rainbow-colored, silent winged creatures dancing through the air, pausing for a moment on my daughter's skirt and my shoulder, I felt a tremendous sense of the power of God's infinitely creative hand. The Author of the galaxies, the One who stirs the sea and tells the snow where to fall, with eyes ablaze as He rides His chariot made of clouds--It is this same God who cups His hands around a caterpillar and wills it to fly. And He thought of it all Himself! Awesome.
“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
This is the common blue Morphos butterfly. It had the most striking, irridescent blue coloring,and the black trim along the edges of it's wings made for such a visual piece of candy, I was mesmerized. I even got to watch one emerge from it's chryssalis in the special window pictured above.However, it was by far the most elusive. Out of about 15 or 20 attempted shots, this was about the best and close I could come. Ah well, I took the picture in my mind, at least. :)
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